Section 501.10.200. Certification through training required for all reserve peace officers.

       10.200(1) Each person appointed to serve as a reserve peace officer after July 1, 2007, shall satisfactorily complete a minimum training course established by the academy consisting of 80 hours of training and 40 hours of supervised time. Training for individuals appointed as reserve peace officers shall be provided by instructors in a community college or other facility, including a law enforcement agency, selected by the individual and approved by the law enforcement agency and the academy. Reserve peace officers must be certified within 18 months from the date of their appointment.

       10.200(2) The academy council may, at the council’s discretion, extend the 18-month time period in which a reserve peace officer must become certified for up to 180 days after a showing of “undue hardship” by the reserve peace officer or the reserve peace officer’s appointing agency. To be considered for an extension of the 18-month certification period, the person or agency requesting the extension must initiate the request in writing not less than 10 days prior to the council meeting at which the extension request is to be discussed and must also make a presentation to the council at the next regularly scheduled meeting of the council. An extension shall not be liberally granted and shall only be granted after a showing that all other alternatives to an extension have been considered and rejected.

       10.200(3) The time period within which a person must achieve certification as a reserve peace officer in the state of Iowa shall commence on the day a person is first appointed as a reserve peace officer in the state of Iowa. Any subsequent changes in a reserve peace officer’s appointment status, including transfers to a different appointing agency, shall not toll or otherwise extend the certification period. Those reserve peace officers appointed after July 1, 2007, but before October 3, 2007, shall have 18 months after October 3, 2007, to complete the training and supervision requirements.

       10.200(4) Should a person appointed as a reserve peace officer fail to achieve certification within the time period or under any extension allowed by this rule, that person shall not be eligible for appointment as a reserve peace officer and shall not serve as a reserve peace officer in the state of Iowa for a period of not less than one year from the date the time period in which to achieve certification expired, or from the date that the person was last appointed as a reserve peace officer in the state of Iowa, whichever comes first.