The agency that sets training standards for North Carolina sheriff deputies has pivoted on a proposal to allow deputies to use police powers for up to a year before completing basic law enforcement training.
The North Carolina Sheriffs’ Education and Standards Training Commission unanimously voted Friday to allow one-year probationary certification, but with explicit limits on when new deputies could use police powers, including making arrests.
The vote is the commission’s latest effort to modify a rule that went into effect in July that prevents deputies from performing policing duties until they complete 800 hours of law enforcement training…