Georgia Administrative Code

All rules and regulations of the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council shall be administered by the Executive Director of the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council whose current physical address is 5000 Austell - Powder Springs Road, Suite 261, Auste…

The Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council shall consist of twenty-two (22) voting members and five (5) advisory members. Voting members and advisory members shall serve as dictated by O.C.G.A. § 35-8-3. (a) The following eleven (11) members shall be ex officio memb…

Officers of the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council shall be elected from a majority of a quorum of the voting members of the Council.

The Council is assigned to the Department of Public Safety for administrative purposes only. (a) The Council shall: 1. Exercise its quasi-judicial, rule making, licensing or policy making functions independent of the Department of Public Safety and without approval or control of …

The Chairman may establish such committees as may be necessary to conduct the business of the Council. The Chairman shall appoint the committee chairman and members of each committee who shall serve at the pleasure of the chairman during the chairman's term of office. A majority …

(1) The Council shall meet quarterly in the months of March, June, September, and December of each year. (2) Council Committee Meetings shall occur quarterly in the months of January, April, July, and October of each year. (3) The Council and its Committees may hold emergency mee…

Users at all levels granted access to the Georgia POST Data Gateway must use the information contained therein for official public safety business.

For the purpose of these rules there shall be four forms of certification by which an officer may become certified to operate speed detection devices as defined in the rules: (a) VASCAR Certification- to be certified as a VASCAR operator an officer must: (1) complete a VASCAR Tra…

In order that a person be certified as an instructor for LIDAR speed detection devices, that person shall be a POST certified speed detection instructor and complete a LIDAR instructor's course as approved by the Council.

In order that a person be certified as an instructor for VASCAR speed detection devices, that person shall be a POST certified instructor and complete a VASCAR instructor's course as approved by the Council.

In order that a person be certified as an instructor for EDST/Stopwatch courses, that person shall be a POST certified instructor and complete an EDST/Stopwatch instructor's course, as approved by council, or be certified as a VASCAR instructor.

In order that a person be certified as an instructor for LASER speed detection devices, that person shall be a POST certified speed detection instructor and complete a LASER instructor's course as approved by the Council

All applications for speed detection operator certification must be submitted within eighteen (18) months of speed detection operator course completion. Failure to submit an application within the required time frame will require the officer to retake the speed detection operator…