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POST advisory committee weighs allowing agencies to reuse recent background investigations
Summary
POST staff briefed the advisory committee on a proposal from chiefs and police associations to allow hiring agencies to accept recent background investigations completed by other agencies in limited circumstances; committee members advised narrow time limits and mandatory updates to address intervening conduct.
The advisory committee for the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) discussed whether agencies should be permitted to accept a background investigation completed recently by another agency when hiring a peace officer.
Staff services manager Melanie Singley told the committee the conversation began at the request of Tracy Avelar, chief of Foster City Police Department and then-president of the California Police Chiefs Association. Current POST regulation 1953 allows only limited exceptions for using a previously completed background investigation—most commonly when an officer returns to the same agency after a break in service or when an interim police chief is being hired. A 2019 subsection permits transferability of an interim chief’s background investigation under specific criteria: the interim chief must have been…
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