A. 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)
B. 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)
Regents Procedural Guide, 4.22, pp. IV-18-19, 3/1/96
