Continuing Professional Training. For calendar year 2024, peace officers and troopers must receive a total of 24 hours of CPT. Eight of the twenty-four hours must be completed on the three topics mandated by the Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission (OPOTC). The topics, and minimum hour requirement for each topic, are as follows:
Continuing Professional Training. Subject to validation by employers, employees shall benefit from continuing professional training throughout their careers to adapt their skills to companies' changing requirements and maintain their level of “employability“. In the event of streamlining, restructuring, reorganisation or other structural changes to companies or groups, management is obliged to enter into discussions/negotiations with the Joint Committee and/or Staff Delegation in order to draft a career transition training plan for employees. In this Agreement, continuing professional training is designed to include two key areas: A. Reskilling and B. Upskilling.
