File #: Int 0758-2024    Version: * Name: Requiring civilian complaint review board members and investigators to participate in a firearm use and safety training conducted by the police department.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 4/11/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to requiring civilian complaint review board members and investigators to participate in a firearm use and safety training conducted by the police department.
Sponsors: Robert F. Holden, Kalman Yeger , Joann Ariola
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Summary: This bill would require members of the Civilian Complaint Review Board and investigators employed by the Board to participate in a firearm use and safety training conducted by the New York City Police Department, within the first year of their appointment or hire.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 758, 2. Int. No. 758, 3. April 11, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4-11-24, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - April 11, 2024

Int. No. 758

 

By Council Members Holden, Yeger and Ariola

 

A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to requiring civilian complaint review board members and investigators to participate in a firearm use and safety training conducted by the police department.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subdivision (c) of section 440 of the New York city charter is amended by adding a new paragraph 8 to read as follows:

8. Within the first year after appointment or hire, each member of the board, and any civilian investigator employed by the board, shall participate in a firearm use and safety training conducted by the police department. Such training shall:

(i) Include a video-based program that provides participants with information regarding use of force options and patrol tactics pertaining to firearm use and safety;

(ii) Allow participants to apply concepts learned from such program in a simulated environment; and

(iii) Last no longer than 8 hours.

The failure by a board member or civilian investigator employed by the board to complete such training within the first year after appointment or hire shall not affect the validity of the member’s appointment to or the investigator’s hire by the board. A board member appointed to fill a vacancy on the board shall be exempt from the requirements of this paragraph if the balance of the unexpired term the member is appointed to serve is less than 1 year.

§ 2. Subdivision (d) of section 440 of the New York city charter is amended by adding a new paragraph 4 to read as follows:

4. The police commissioner shall cooperate with members of the board and civilian investigators employed by the board to facilitate the firearm use and safety training required by paragraph 8 of subdivision (c) of this section.

§ 3. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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