The basic certification curriculum for law enforcement officers shall be established by the use of periodic statewide job task analyses and subject matter expert reviews.
005.01 Statewide job task analysis should be conducted at intervals not longer than eight (8) years apart.005.02 The Director shall conduct the statewide job task analysis under the direction of the Council. The Council may use a contract vendor to perform the analysis in cooperation with the Director.005.03 The job task analysis shall be conducted using accepted practices that ensures law enforcement agencies throughout the State are represented in the analysis.005.04 The Director shall have prepared a curriculum that addresses the minimum training standards for law enforcement certification in the State. The Director shall prepare the curriculum using the information from the job task analysis, consulting with representatives of law enforcement from around the State and consulting with subject matter experts. The Director shall present the curriculum to the Council. The Director shall also provide a copy of the curriculum to all academy directors in the State. The curriculum shall consist of: 005.04A The identification of major topic areas in the curriculum005.04B All classes and their titles within each of the major topic areas005.04C The essential tasks that are required to be covered in each class.005.04D The learning and performance objectives that are required to be covered in each class.005.04E The criteria and standards used for evaluating non-tested performance objectives.005.04F The amount of time the Training Center requires to present each class and the total hours required to present the curriculum.005.04G The performance objectives that are incorporated into testing in which a student must demonstrate minimum performance to pass and receive certification.005.04H The criteria and standards used in comprehensive testing.005.05 The Council shall review the curriculum, request additional work from the Director if needed, and adopt the curriculum. The adopted curriculum is the basic certification curriculum for law enforcement officers. The State basic curriculum shall be the curriculum of the Training Center.005.06 The Training Center may establish basic certification training courses that use alternative delivery methods with the approval of the Council. Such courses may vary in class time length and total hours of the State basic curriculum as set forth in 005.04G.79 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 14, § 005