Public Act 097-1009
 
HB5635 EnrolledLRB097 20522 KMW 66078 b


  
    AN ACT concerning local government.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Illinois Police Training Act is amended  by 
changing Section 10.11 as follows:
 
    (50 ILCS 705/10.11)
    Sec. 10.11. Training; death and homicide investigation. 
The Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board shall 
conduct or approve a training program in death and homicide 
investigation for the training of law enforcement officers of 
local government agencies and coroners. Only law enforcement 
officers and coroners who successfully complete the training 
program may be assigned as lead investigators in death and 
homicide investigations and coroner's investigations, 
respectively. Satisfactory completion of the training program 
shall be evidenced by a certificate issued to the law 
enforcement officer or coroner by the Illinois Law Enforcement 
Training and Standards Board.

    The Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board 
shall develop a process for waiver applications sent by a local 
law enforcement the agency administrator or from a coroner's 
office for those officers or coroners whose prior training and 
experience as homicide investigators  may qualify them for a 
waiver. The Board may issue a waiver at its discretion, based 
solely on the prior training and experience of an officer or a 
coroner as a homicide investigator. This Section does not 
affect or impede the powers of the office of the coroner to 
investigate all deaths as provided in Division 3-3 of the 
Counties Code. 
(Source: P.A. 96-1111, eff. 1-1-12; 97-553, eff. 1-1-12.)