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Board adopts defensive-tactics training policy to match 2024 state mandate
Summary
The Board approved policy 211 to align local defensive-tactics training with a 2024 statewide mandate, emphasizing four hours of required hands-on training annually; local department said it already trains more than the minimum.
The Elkhart Board of Public Safety voted to approve a defensive-tactics training policy to conform with a 2024 statewide mandate.
A Police Department representative explained the update clarifies required training content and hours. Under the change, officers must receive four hours of hands-on defensive-tactics training annually. The representative said the department historically provides eight hours and does hands-on training currently: "Most of it's smaller verbiage and interpretation. One specific was hours of—you have to have 4 hours of defensive tactics training a year. We train 8," the representative said.
A board member moved to approve policy 211; the motion passed by voice vote. The transcript shows the updates are largely wording and interpretation changes rather than a wholesale overhaul of the department's training program.
