NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on August 01, 2011, the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission, received a petition for a permanent waiver of subsection 11B-27.00212(14), F.A.C., from the Graceville Police Department on behalf of eight current and former officers. Subsection 11B-27.00212(14), F.A.C., requires officers to requalify with a firearm every two years on a course of fire mandated by Commission rule and supervised by a CJSTC-certified firearms instructor. The petition supports the requested waiver by stating that the eight officers did successfully complete the course of fire, however, the instructor was not an active CJSTC-certified firearms instructor at the time of the requalifications for the 2006-2008 (7/1/06-6/30/08) and 2008-2010 (7/1/08-6/30/10) mandatory requalification periods. Petitioner states that the agency’s officers will suffer a substantial hardship if their certifications are rendered inactive as a result of this situation. Petitioner further states that it would violate the principles of fairness to fail to recognize that the officers affected by this situation did successfully complete the requirement simply because their instructor was not an active CJSTC-certified firearms instructor at the time that he supervised the mandatory requalifications.
A copy of the Petition for Variance or Waiver may be obtained by contacting: Grace A. Jaye, Assistant General Counsel, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, P. O. Box 1489, Tallahassee, FL 32302, (850)410-7676.