§ 1011. Professional Certificates for Public Safety Dispatchers and Records Supervisors.
11 CA ADC § 1011Barclays Official California Code of RegulationsEffective: July 1, 2024
Effective: July 1, 2024
11 CCR § 1011
§ 1011. Professional Certificates for Public Safety Dispatchers and Records Supervisors.
Dispatcher Certificates are professional certificates awarded in recognition of meeting specified training education, and service requirements. Possession of these certificates is voluntary and is not required to perform dispatcher duties.
An applicant (or an applicant's employing department) shall submit a completed Certificate Application -- POST Public Safety Dispatcher via the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). If a POST-certified training course is not reflected on the applicant's POST profile, they should contact the course presenter to update the POST Profile.
3. Supporting documents are not required if the education and/or experience information needed to support the current certificate request is already reflected on the applicant's POST profile. Any education or experience that is not reflected on the POST profile must be supported as described in subsection 1011(a)(3)(A)1. and/or 2.
Accreditation shall be by a national or regional accrediting body that is recognized by the Secretary of the United States Department of Education. For the award of a certificate, all degrees or units:
When education units exceed the number needed to qualify for a certificate, the excess education units may be converted to training points to meet training point requirements.
Exception: This requirement does not apply if the dispatcher was appointed prior to the agency's participation in the POST program.
Exception: Upon entry into the program, agencies with a probation period of less than 12 months, when established by ordinance, charter, or memorandum of understanding, shall be granted a waiver of this requirement until a 12-month probation period can be established.
Note: The Dispatcher Certificate is obsolete, those who possess a Dispatcher Certificate will be grandfathered in and be eligible for a Dispatcher Basic Certificate.
Degree or Education Units * | Dispatcher Experience | Training Points | ||
Bachelor's Degree | and | 3 years | plus | 0 |
Associate Degree | and | 5 years | plus | 0 |
45 Education Units | and | 5 years | plus | 12 |
30 Education Units | and | 7 years | plus | 11 |
15 Education Units | and | 9 years | plus | 10 |
* Excess education units may be applied towards training points on a unit for point basis per subsection 1011(a)(3)(D).
Degree or Education Units * | Dispatcher Experience | Training Points | ||
Master's Degree | and | 5 years | plus | 0 |
Bachelor's Degree | and | 7 years | plus | 0 |
Associate Degree | and | 9 years | plus | 0 |
45 Education Units | and | 9 years | plus | 12 |
30 Education Units | and | 11 years | plus | 11 |
* Excess education units may be applied towards training points on a unit for point basis per subsection 1011(a)(3)(D).
The Records Supervisor Certificate is a professional certificate awarded to a records supervisor in recognition of meeting specified training and service requirements. Possession of this certificate is voluntary and is not required to perform record supervisor duties.
The applicant and the applicant's employing agency shall submit a completed Certificate Application Records Supervisor via EDI.
POST shall cancel a professional certificate(s) for the following reasons:
Department personnel who possess information that a certificate was obtained through misrepresentation, fraud, or administrative error shall notify POST immediately.
The Executive Director may initiate an investigation of the circumstances under which the certificate was issued. The Executive Director has the authority to approve or deny certificate cancellation.
An individual whose certificate has been cancelled may appeal the cancellation to the Commission.
At the Commission's discretion, a hearing shall be held either before the Commission or before a qualified hearing officer. The hearing officer shall prepare a proposed decision in such form that it may be adopted as the decision in the case. All hearings shall be conducted in conformance with the Administrative Procedures Act (Government Code.C. section 11340 et seq.). At the conclusion of the appeal hearing, the Commission shall render a decision to uphold or overturn the decision to cancel the certificate.
When the decision to cancel is upheld through the appeal process, the POST Profile record shall indicate the appropriate reason for the cancellation.
Credits
Note: Authority cited: Section 1029, Government Code; Sections 13503, 13506, 13510(c), 13510.1, 13510.1(e), 13510.2 and 13510.7, Penal Code. Reference: Section 1031, Government Code; and Sections 832.4, 13503, 13506, 13510(c), 13510.1, 13510.3 and 13510.7(a)-(b), Penal Code.
History
1. Change without regulatory effect renumbering and amending former section 9070 to new subsections 1011(a)-(a)(15), renumbering and amending former section 9071 to new subsections 1011(b)-(b)(5)(B), renumbering and amending former section 9072 to new subsections 1011(c)-(c)(7), renumbering and amending former section 9073 to new subsections 1011(d)-(d)(6), renumbering and amending former section 9076 to new subsections 1011(e)-(e)(4), renumbering and amending former section 9077 to new subsections 1011(f)-(f)(1) and renumbering and amending former section 9078 to new subsections 1011(g)-(g)(6) filed 11-26-2012 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2012, No. 48). For prior history, see Register 2007, No. 5.
2. Amendment of section and Note and POST Forms 2-116, 2-117, 2-250 and 2-289 (incorporated by reference) filed 8-26-2015; operative 10-1-2015 (Register 2015, No. 35).
3. Change without regulatory effect amending section and Note filed 12-9-2015 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2015, No. 50).
4. Change without regulatory effect amending subsections (a)(4)(D)3. and (a)(5)(D)3. and footnotes to tables in subsections (a)(8)(C) and (c)(4)(C) filed 6-9-2016 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2016, No. 24).
5. Amendment of Certificate Application -- Reserve Peace Officer application form (POST 2-256) and Request for Reissuance of POST Certificate form (POST 2-250) (both incorporated by reference) and amendment of subsections (a)(12)(B) and (f) filed 6-22-2016; operative 10-1-2016 (Register 2016, No. 26).
6. Amendment of subsections (a)(4)(B), (a)(4)(C)1.-2., (c)(3)(C), (c)(6)(A), (d)(2), (d)(4)(B) and (e)(3) filed 10-15-2021; operative 1-1-2022 (Register 2021, No. 42). Filing deadline specified in Government Code section 11349.3(a) extended 60 calendar days pursuant to Executive Order N-40-20 and an additional 60 calendar days pursuant to Executive Order N-71-20.
7. Amendment of section heading and section filed 10-17-2022; operative 1-1-2023 (Register 2022, No. 42).
8. Amendment filed 5-10-2024; operative 7-1-2024 (Register 2024, No. 19).
9. Editorial correction of subsection designators (Register 2024, No. 21).
This database is current through 6/21/24 Register 2024, No. 25.
Cal. Admin. Code tit. 11, § 1011, 11 CA ADC § 1011
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