KRS 15.515: Participation in the Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program Fund

by a police officer who is elected jailer.

(1) A police officer who is elected as a jailer shall retain eligibility for Kentucky Law

Enforcement Foundation Program Fund participation following his or her term of

office as jailer, subject to the following conditions:

(a) The police officer successfully completed a basic training course approved or

recognized by the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council;

(b) The person has been continuously employed as a police officer since basic

training and has maintained his or her annual in -service training prior to the

police officer's election to the office of jailer; and

(c) During his or her term of office as jailer, the person has successfully

completed forty (40) hours of annual in -service training approved or

recognized by the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council.

(2) During his or her term of office, the jailer shall not be eligible to participate in the

Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program Fund.

(3) Upon the jailer's return to a law enforcement agency that is eligible to participate in

the Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program Fund, he or she may

participate in the fund, if otherwise eligible, without repeating basic training in its

entirety. The jailer may be required to complete no more than eighty (80) hours of

training as determined by the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council to participate in

the fund.

(4) In-service training required of the jailer under this section shall be provided by the

Department of Criminal Justice Training without the cost of tuition to the jailer.

(5) The provisions of this section shall apply to any person serving as elected jailer on

or after June 21, 2001, regardless of when the initial basic training was completed.

(6) An elected jailer who is in office as of June 21, 2001, and who has successfully

completed annual Department of Corrections in -service training during his or her

term of office shall be deemed to have met the in -service training requirement of

subsection (1) of this section. After June 21, 2001, an elected jailer shall meet the

requirements of subsection (1) of this section to retain Kentucky Law Enforcement

Foundation Program Fund eligibility.