At the April 16, 1998 meeting, the Commission approved a Pilot Program to create a voluntary instructor certification course for the Basic Academy (Attachment A).

At the January 27, 2000 meeting, the Commission extended the opportunity to participate in the voluntary program to all academies (Attachment B).

At the January 19, 2006 meeting, the Commission approved changes to make the voluntary AICP program mandatory (Attachment C).

AICP subsequently became mandatory in 2008 for academies, and mandatory for all modular basic course presenters in 2011.  Currently, all Regular Basic Course (RBC) instructors must meet AICP requirement prior to providing instruction (Attachment D).

Regulation 1009 provides that instructors in the Regular Basic Course (RBC) must successfully pass the required AICP process prior to providing instruction to students. 

Mandatory participation in AICP, while at face value is a simple process to ensure a high level of instructional competency, has created an adverse operational impact on agencies and presenters due to the logistics of getting prospective instructors through the program. On numerous occasions RBC presenters have expressed that the AICP mandate has been cumbersome and at times, a hindrance to academy operations.

Further, POST data indicates the majority of AICP graduates never teach at a POST academy. 

The costs to POST for reimbursement of AICP costs have skyrocketed due to the ever-increasing desire to attend the course. A recent analysis reveals only 32% of AICP graduates have ever taught in the RBC, and only 22% of graduates are currently teaching in the RBC. Although many of the former instructors have left due to attrition, e.g. retirement from law enforcement, the overall participation level in actual teaching at an RBC is extraordinarily low. 

To illustrate by comparison, the statistics for FY 16/17 reflect POST paid for 1620 students to receive AICC training, yet only 200 became RBC instructors, which is a 12% return on investment for purposes of the regulatory intent of AICP.

POST staff desire to modify regulatory language to reflect one of two possible alternates as follows:

Option 1.  Remove the pre-service AICP completion mandate to allow RBC instructors to satisfy the AICP requirement within 12 months from the date of promotion, appointment, or transfer. This option is consistent with other POST regulations (1004 and 1005) that allow such a time frame for supplemental training for certain classifications of peace officers, such as district attorney investigators and deputy coroners, as well as the training requirements for newly appointed supervisors, managers, and those positions overseeing a field training program (Attachment E).

Option 2. Return AICP.to a voluntary program, as it had been originally designed (Attachment F).