7.08 Special Security Officers

The Board may authorize any institution under its control to commission one or more of its employees as special security officers. Special security officers shall have the powers, privileges, and immunities of regular peace officers when acting in the interests of the institutionby which they are employed. The Board shall provide as rapidly as practicable for the adequate training of such special security officers at the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy or in an equivalent training program, unless they have already received such training. (Code 262.13)

To effect the above action, the following pertains:

1. Each institution under the Board of Regents shall recommend to the Board the name of each security officer to be commissioned as a special security officer. The institutions shall include detailed information concerning the law enforcement training of each officer so recommended.

2. Any campus security personnel designated as special security officers shall have received basic recruit training at the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy or have the equivalent of such training.

3. Designated special security officers shall be permitted to carry firearms only upon express authority of the president or the president's designated authority in assignments of extreme danger.

4. Each institution shall take appropriate measures to insure that its security personnel receive adequate law enforcement training commensurate with their assignment as rapidly as practicable. Except for compelling reasons, security personnel shall not be eligible for basic recruit training at the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy until employed for six months as a security officer at a Regent institution.

5. Institutions under the Board of Regents may recommend to the Board names of employees to be designated as temporary special security officers. All such designations shall extend no longer than one year after such designation by the Board or, if earlier, upon the successful completion of a course of training at the academy or an equivalent training course approved by the Board. No employee shall be eligible for renewal of a temporary designation.

6. All requests for special security officer status must be brought to the Board for appointments, whether such requests be for regular, temporary or a change from temporary to regular status. (March 13-14, 1969, p. 337; December 9-10, 1971, pp. 323, 357)