§12559 State Plan Requirements

Summary

Require State Police Corps plans to explain how participants are picked, placed, trained, and treated. Screening and selection must follow the rules in section 12556. Plans must set out how participants are assigned to State and local police, and unless the Director allows more, no more than 25 percent of a State’s yearly assignments can go to statewide police forces. Participants must go to areas with the greatest need and where they will be most useful. When possible, assignments should be near a participant’s home or where the participant asks to go. Participants should be used on community and preventive patrol and get good training and leadership. Assignments should be made when someone joins the program when feasible. Changes can occur before the fourth year of college as the plan allows, and from the start of the fourth year until the participant finishes 4 years of police service only for compelling reasons or program needs and with the participant’s consent. No one may be sent to a local force that shrank by more than 5 percent since June 21, 1989, or that has members who were laid off but not retired. The State may only refuse an appointment after Federal training or remove a participant for good cause (including poor school progress) and after fair review steps in the plan. While serving, participants must be paid and get benefits and rights equal to other officers of the same rank and tenure under labor agreements and State and local law.