- (a) Acts 1983, No. 672, as modified, established minimum training and certification standards for police traffic radar/lidar operators and instructors.
- (b) Any full-time certified law enforcement officer or any person employed by a law enforcement agency or an Arkansas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training-approved training facility that has satisfactorily completed a police traffic radar/lidar course and the instructor development course may be a radar instructor.
- (c) Law enforcement officers applying to be operators must successfully complete a commission-approved radar/lidar training course before taking any law enforcement action as a police traffic radar/lidar operator.
- (d) A law enforcement officer who does not meet the standards and qualifications shall not take any official action as a police traffic radar/lidar operator, and any action taken shall be held as invalid.
- (e) All certificates remain the property of the commission, and the Division of Law Enforcement Standards and Training shall have the power to recall or revoke any certificate issued.
- (f) The division shall establish the minimum curriculum requirements for the police traffic radar/lidar operator course.
(g) Requirements.
(1)
- (A) An officer must have completed the division-approved training for their appropriate level of certification before being eligible for certification as a police traffic radar/lidar operator.
- (B) Grandfathered officers are exempt from this requirement.
- (2) The division shall issue a certificate evidencing satisfactory completion of the requirements when evidence is submitted by the law enforcement department head that the police traffic radar/lidar operator or instructor has met the training requirements.
- (3) Police traffic radar/lidar operators shall obtain a certificate issued by the division before taking any law enforcement action as a police traffic radar/lidar operator.