(1) POST will issue advanced certificates in the following disciplines:

(a) peace officer;

(b) detention/corrections officer;

(c) probation and parole officer;

(d) misdemeanor probation/pretrial services officer; and

(e) public safety communications officer.

(2) In addition to ARM 23.13.204 and 23.13.205, a peace officer or probation and parole officer who is an applicant for an award of the advanced certificate:

(a) must possess the discipline-specific intermediate certificate; and

(b) must have eight years of discipline-specific experience and 400 combined POST-approved, in-service, lateral POST training credit training hours as provided in these rules.

(3) In addition to ARM 23.13.204 and 23.13.205, a detention/corrections officer or a misdemeanor probation/pretrial services officer who is an applicant for an award of the advanced certificate:

(a) must possess the discipline-specific intermediate certificate; and

(b) must have eight years of discipline-specific experience and 304 combined job-related training hours as provided in these rules.

(4) In addition to ARM 23.13.204 and 23.13.205, a public safety communications officer who is an applicant for an award of the advanced certificate:

(a) must possess the discipline-specific intermediate certificate; and

(b) must have eight years of discipline-specific experience and 184 combined POST-approved, in-service, or lateral POST training credit training hours as provided in these rules.

(5) Officers who believe they are eligible for an advanced certificate must submit a completed application pursuant to ARM 23.13.218.

(6) A misdemeanor probation/pretrial services officer who possessed a probation and parole intermediate certificate before March 28, 2020, meets the requirement of (3)(a).