SOP_NUMBER: 506.08-att-3
TITLE: ACA Required Training Topics
REFERENCE_CODE: IVP03-0001
DIVISION: Executive
TOPIC_AREA: 506 Policy-Office of Professional Development
EFFECTIVE_DATE: 2020-05-27
WORD_COUNT: 301
POWERDMS_URL: https://public.powerdms.com/GADOC/documents/175927
URL: https://gps.press/sop-data/506.08-att-3/

SUMMARY:
This attachment specifies the mandatory training topics that Georgia Department of Corrections must cover in pre-service training, basic correctional officer training (BCOT), and in-service training programs to meet American Correctional Association (ACA) standards. The policy outlines what subjects must be included in each training program type and establishes a seven-year minimum retention schedule for all training records, with direction for long-term storage at the Academy Director's office.

KEY_TOPICS: ACA training requirements, pre-service training, basic correctional officer training, BCOT, in-service training, correctional officer training, use of force training, offender supervision, sexual abuse prevention, fire and emergency procedures, key control, code of ethics, security training, training compliance, training records retention

ATTACHMENTS:
  2. Background Check Verification Form – Multiple Employees
     URL: https://gps.press/sop-data/506.08-att-2/
  3. ACA Required Training Topics
     URL: https://gps.press/sop-data/506.08-att-3/
  4. POST Training Submission Cover Sheet
     URL: https://gps.press/sop-data/506.08-att-4/

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SOP 506.08
Attachment 3

5/27/20

# **ACA Required Training Topics**


The following topics will be covered in each of the following training programs:


**1.** **Pre-Service (PSO)**


a. Purpose, goals, organizational structure, programs, policies, procedures and regulations for

Facility and parent agency
b. Responsibilities, rights, rules and regulations of employees
c. Working conditions and regulations
d. Personnel practices, job responsibilities and code of ethics
e. Historical perspective of facility and overview of the Correctional field
f. Security and contraband regulation
g. Key control
h. Security responsibilities
i. Safety plans and procedures
j. Fire and emergency plans and procedures
k. Sexual harassment
l. Prohibitions concerning sexual harassment, religious prejudice, and minority rights
m. Appropriate conduct with offenders and Offender supervision
n. Universal precautions
o. Occupational exposure
p. Personal protective equipment
q. Biohazardous waste disposal
r. Interpersonal relations
s. Communications skills and report writing


**2.** **Basic Correctional Officer Training (BCOT)**


a. Security and safety plans and procedures
b. Emergency and fire plans and procedures
c. Supervision of offenders
d. Suicide intervention/prevention
e. Use of force
f. Offender rights
g. Key control
h. Interpersonal relations
i. Communication skills and Offender supervision
j. Standards of conduct
k. Cultural awareness
l. Sexual abuse/assault/harassment intervention
m. Code of ethics


**3.** **In-Service**


a. Standards of conduct/ethics
b. Security/safety/fire/medical/emergency plans and procedures
c. Supervision of offenders including training on sexual abuse and assault
d. Use of force


Retention Schedule: All training records must be kept at local facility training offices and/or regional training offices
until storage capacity is exceeded. Training records must then be boxed, labeled by location and year, and forwarded
to the Academy Director’s office for storage in Bay D, SOSTC Fleet Warehouse, which is climate controlled. After
retention for at least seven (7) years, only the Academy Director may direct that training records be destroyed.