South Carolina § 23-28-30 - Training course; subjects of study.
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§ 23-28-30. Training course; subjects of study.
(A) A reserve officer may not assume a police function until he has successfully completed a course of training of at least sixty hours and passed a comprehensive test prepared by the Law Enforcement Training Council and administered by the local law enforcement agency. The sixty hours of training must be promulgated by the Law Enforcement Training Council, endorsed by the appointing official and must include, but not be limited to:
(1) Firearms training-twelve hours
(2) Laws of arrest-three hours
(3) Searches and seizure-three hours
(4) Evidence-six hours
(5) Crisis intervention-three hours
(6) Officer survival-two hours
(7) Ethics-two hours
(8) Constitutional law-two hours
(9) Local ordinances and policies-ten hours
(10) Radio communications-one hour
(11) Handling prisoners-one hour
(12) Handling juveniles-one hour
(13) Human relations-two hours.
(B) Nothing in this chapter prevents the entity having a reserve unit from prescribing additional training, subject to the approval of the Law Enforcement Training Council.
HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 481, SECTION 3; 1996 Act No. 459, SECTION 44; 2006 Act No. 317, SECTION 3, eff May 30, 2006; 2006 Act No. 336, SECTION 2, eff June 2, 2006; 2007 Act No. 44, SECTION 1, eff June 4, 2007.
Effect of Amendment
The first 2006 amendment, in the second sentence of the introductory paragraph, substituted "Law Enforcement Training Council" for "South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy Division of the Department of Public Safety".
The second 2006 amendment added the undesignated paragraph at the end relating to reserve unit training.
The 2007 amendment designated subsections (A) and (B) and redesignated items (A) to (M) as paragraphs (A)(1) to (A)(13); in subsection (A), in the introductory paragraph substituted "Law Enforcement Training Council" for "South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy"; in subsection (B), substituted "Law Enforcement Training Council" for "South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy Division of the Department of Public Safety"; and made nonsubstantive language changes.
Source: official South Carolina text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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