37.04.040 Mandatory Training

(a) All employees and officials of law enforcement and the criminal justice system shall participate in a minimum forty (40) hours of initial training and sixteen (16) hours of annual training.

(b) The training shall include but not be limited to the dynamics of domestic violence, the impact of victimization, offender's education programs, and coordinated systems response in order to facilitate implementation of this ordinance and the technical aspects in making a domestic violence arrest including probable cause, self-defense, mutual arrest, evidence gathering and report writing.

(c) The Turtle Mountain Domestic Abuse Task Force shall be responsible for coordinating the training curriculum.

(d) Failure to participate in the required training shall result in disciplinary action by an immediate supervisor with a minimum of a written reprimand placed in the personnel file and monitoring to ensure attendance at training.