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POST Commission approves multiple waivers, agreed orders and academy transfers
Summary
At its Aug. 29 meeting, the Tennessee POST Commission approved a series of certification waivers, academy transfer requests, agreed orders of surrender and suspensions, and directed investigators to conduct several follow-up checks of small agencies’ reserve and part‑time staffing practices.
The Tennessee Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission on Aug. 29 approved a series of certification actions, including military‑discharge waivers, criminal‑record waivers, academy transfer and attendance waivers, and multiple agreed orders surrendering or suspending officer certifications.
The actions affect individual applicants and several law‑enforcement agencies across the state and include both approval of hires and procedural steps such as referrals for informal hearings and spot checks of department training records. Commissioners voted on each item during the meeting after staff and agency representatives presented background information.
Among the items approved were military‑discharge and pre‑employment waivers for applicants who presented medical or administrative reasons for separation from prior service; criminal‑record waivers for several current or prospective officers whose convictions were reported as resolved; academy transfer approvals for recruits who withdrew from one academy for employment or medical reasons and sought to attend another; and agreed orders that removed or suspended POST…
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