Faculty Syllabus

CJLE 2522 - Texas Peace Officer Skills covers recently identified current events, skills, knowledge, and/or attitudes and behaviors that are components of the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement learning objectives pertinent to a law enforcement career. This class is the skills course of Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Course #1011. Demonstration and practice of the skills expected of a police officer.  Includes patrol, driving, traffic stops, Intoxicated Driver and Standardized Field Sobriety Testing, use of force, mechanics of arrest, firearms safety and emergency medical care.  Prerequisite:  Texas Peace Officer Law and Texas Peace Officer Procedures; or may be taken concurrently.

This is a five hour credit course and is taught as lecture and lab with a minimum of 128 contact hours. This course will reinforce information that will help prepare criminal justice students to take the state license examination to be a licensed peace officer. (Credit Hours: 5, Classroom Contact Hours per week: 4, Laboratory Contact Hours per week: 4).

Transferability of workforce courses varies. Students interested in transferring courses to another college should speak with their Area of Study (AoS) advisor, Department Chair, and/or Program Director.

See calendar for mandated course attendance. These are sessions that cannot be made up so strict attendance is required. Several of the modules are taught by outside specialty instructors who are content experts.  Student attendance for these sessions is mandatory to successfully meeting the class objectives, as they cannot be rescheduled, therefore if the student misses the session, they will be withdrawn from the course.

PREREQUISITES

Associate Degree which includes the seven core criminal justice courses or in progress towards completion of the ACC Texas Peace Officer Specialization AAS degree. Completed, submitted and successfully passed all of the requirements established by the Texas Commission of Law Enforcement (TCOLE) for the TX Peace Officer academy application process. Students must have successfully completed with the minimum grade of a “B” or be concurrently enrolled in CJLE 2420 Texas Peace Officer Procedures or Law.

The Texas Commission on Law Enforcement rules and regulations require successful completion

of all course objectives for all four sequence courses (CJLE 2420, CJLE 2421, CJLE 2522, and CJLE

2424), to be eligible to be endorsed to take the licensing test.

CJLE 2424 Texas Peace Officer Capstone must be taken in the last semester of the Academic

Alternative program during which a comprehensive end of program examination will be administered.

TCOLE Basic Peace Officer Course Objectives Manual will be issued by the Criminal Justice

Department. This manual is the study guide for the sequence courses and the TCOLE licensing

exam. Students are expected to bring this manual to class each day. Students will use this

manual for ALL 4 Sequence courses.

Texas Criminal and Traffic Law Manual will be issued by the Criminal Justice Department when

students commence the academic alternative sequence courses. This manual is a reference text

for all laws pertaining to our sequence courses and the TCOLE licensing exam. Students are

expected to bring this manual to class each day.

 Chapter 31. Arrest and Control

Chapter 34. Professional Police Driving 

Chapter 43.   Active Shooter Response

Chapter 41. Firearms

Learning Objectives based upon TCOLE Basic Peace Officer Course and included in Day 1 Handout