(1) To receive POST approval for a SWAT primary course, a course must meet the following requirements:
(a) the course must be a minimum of 40 hours in length and be approved pursuant to ARM 23.13.301 and 23.13.304 and must contain a minimum of the following:
- (i) team communication, team make-up;
- (ii) confrontation management to include preplanning, immediate action, planning, execution, post execution;
- (iii) weapons, munitions, and equipment to include safe weapon manipulation, close quarter defense, crisis negotiations, intelligence gathering/ground reconnaissance, preplanning tactics, walk through, breaching techniques;
- (iv) team movement and interior tactics to include approach, position, entry, search, static, dynamic, halls, stairs;
- (v) open air/mobile assault, downed officer citizen rescue, chemical agents/diversionary device/less lethal, practical exercises, and legal issues.
- (2) The director or the director's designee will review applications and approve or reject POST credit pursuant to these rules, unless the director determines, as a matter of discretion, that the council's review is necessary due to extenuating circumstances.
- (3) Upon approval by the director or the director's designee, the course will be reflected on the attending officers' POST training transcripts unless the council takes further action.
Authorizing statute(s): 2-15-2029, MCA
Implementing statute(s): 44-4-403, MCA
History: NEW, 2017 MAR p. 1953, Eff. 10/28/17; AMD, 2018 MAR p. 2518, Eff. 12/22/18; TRANS, from 23.13.217, 2023 MAR p. 1610, Eff. 11/18/23; AMD, 2024 MAR p. 607, Eff. 3/23/24.