| (a) Security and Personal Protection Officer Training.
(1) The Level II training course shall be completed
by all applicants for a security officer commission or for a license
as a noncommissioned security officer. The course material shall be
prepared or approved by the department. A certificate indicating completion
of Level II training shall be submitted to the department with the
required application. Level II training may be taught by the licensee's
designee, or a department approved school and department approved
instructor using the most current version of the respective department
Level II training course manuals.
(2) The Level III training course shall be completed
by all applicants for a security officer commission and a personal
protection officer license. The course material shall be prepared
by and obtained from the department. A certificate indicating completion
of Level III training shall be submitted to the department along with
the application to license the individual. Level III training must
be taught by a department approved school and a department approved
instructor.
(3) The Level IV training course shall be completed
by all applicants for a personal protection officer license. The course
material shall consist of a minimum of fifteen (15) classroom hours
and shall be offered by department approved personal protection officer
training schools and taught by department approved personal protection
training instructors. All training shall be conducted with a department
approved instructor present during all instruction. All students of
a personal protection officer training course shall be tested with
an examination prepared by and obtained from the department.
(b) Peace Officer Exemption.
(1) Applicants for either a security officer commission
or a personal protection officer license who are full-time peace officers,
certified by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE), may
be exempted from the Level III training requirements upon submission
to the department of a sworn affidavit attesting to the applicant's
review of and familiarity with the Act and the related administrative
rules.
(2) Applicants for either a security officer commission
or a personal protection officer license who have honorably retired
as Texas peace officers within the preceding two (2) years may be
exempted from the Level II and III training requirements upon submission
to the department of proof of their honorably retired status (in the
form of documentation from the employing agency or TCOLE), and of
a sworn affidavit attesting to the applicant's review of and familiarity
with the Act and this chapter. For purposes of the above exemption,
"honorably retired" means that the applicant:
(A) Did not retire in lieu of a disciplinary action;
(B) Was eligible to retire from the law enforcement
agency or was ineligible to retire only as a result of an injury received
in the course of the applicant's employment with the agency; and
(C) Is entitled to receive a pension or annuity for
service as a law enforcement officer or is not entitled to receive
a pension or annuity only because the law enforcement agency that
employed the applicant does not offer a pension or annuity to its
employees.
(c) Alarm Systems Training.
(1) The Level I alarm systems training course shall
be successfully completed, and the certification submitted to the
department, by any licensee employed as an alarm systems installer
in order to renew an original license.
(2) Alarm systems Level I training must be taught by
a department approved alarm systems training school and a department
approved alarm instructor.
(d) An inactive or expired licensee who has not been
employed in the investigation or security services industry in the
past three (3) years or more must submit current training certificate(s)
to the department.
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