12 ncac 10b .1205          ADVANCED DETENTION OFFICER PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE

(a)  In addition to the qualifications set forth in Rule .1202 of this Section, applicants for the Advanced Detention Officer Professional Certificate shall possess or be eligible to possess the Intermediate Detention Officer Professional Certificate and shall have acquired the following combination of educational points or degrees, detention officer or corrections training points and years of detention officer experience:

Educational Degrees	None	None	Associate	Bachelor	Doctoral, Professional or Master
Years of Detention Officer Experience	12	9	9	6	4
Minimum Detention Officer Training Points	12	16	27	26	26
Minimum Total Education and Training Points	23	33	27	26	26

(b)  Educational points and degrees claimed shall have been earned at a technical institute, technical college, community college, junior college, college or university accredited as such by the Department of Education of the state in which the institution is located, a national or regional accrediting body, or the state university of the state in which the institution is located. No credit shall be given for any correspondence, on-line or vocational courses unless credited towards a degree by an accredited institution.

(c)  No more than 80 hours of training obtained by completing the commission-mandated detention certification course shall be credited toward training points.

History Note:        Authority G.S. 17E-4(b)(1); 17E-4(b)(12);

Eff. January 1, 1990;

Amended Eff. February 1, 2014; January 1, 2013; August 1, 2002; August 1, 1998; January 1, 1996; January 1, 1994; January 1, 1992;

Pursuant to G.S. 150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without substantive public interest Eff. March 6, 2018.