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Police Standards and Training details added duties, in-service hours and requests IT funding to manage new responsibilities
Summary
The Police Standards and Training Council briefed senators on an expanded mission that includes crisis-intervention training, agency accreditation, conduct-review oversight and higher annual in-service training requirements; it asked to reallocate a staff line to fund an IT manager.
John Skipper, director of the New Hampshire Police Standards and Training Council, told the committee the council has gained responsibilities since 2022 and needs an IT manager to run case management, accreditation and expanded training requirements.
New responsibilities: Skipper summarized statutory changes and executive orders that placed new duties on the council, including statewide crisis-intervention training (SB 376), oversight of law-enforcement accreditation, administration of the Law Enforcement Conduct Review Committee and a phased increase in annual in‑service training hours under administrative rule POL 403.01. The council now regulates and tracks more training and certification requirements across roughly 4,000 certified officers.
IT and staffing ask: Skipper said the council would defund an existing administrative position and use those savings to fund an IT Manager 2 position (shared DOIT support is insufficient) so the council can manage electronic records, accreditation materials and a growing volume of discipline and certification data. The council provided an efficiency-budget submission consistent with the governor's targets and said the IT reallocation would not increase its overall budget.
Training and academy operations: The council operates the full-time police academy, the part-time academy and the corrections academy; Skipper said in-service hours have been increased gradually and that the agency provides regional training to help officers meet annual training targets. He also said the council would defer a planned purchase of simulation equipment and instead keep those funds in operating lines during the current cycle.
Wrap-up: The council said it is prepared to answer follow-up questions and requested the committee consider the internal reallocation to support its IT needs without increasing the approved budget.
