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This course is a four (4) hour training session provided by DCJS required for current instructors and focuses on Regulation updates and instruction techniques.

Required to be completed within 24 months of the last completed training and within 12 months prior to the expiration date of an individual’s certification.

You are required to send to DCJS your training completion certificate along with your renewal application and fees.

You MUST print your completion certificate and upload into your DCJS profile and submit to DCJS yourself.

Reprinting Certificate or checking your score.

Log back in as Returning Student, select My Courses, look to the right-hand side blue drop down arrow and select that button. Next look under Certificate or Statistics button and click to reprint or download your certificate and check your score.
IMPORTANT: For General Instructor – To receive credit from DCJS, each individual will need to submit the application for partial training exemption, $25 fee, and proof of their attendance, to include a copy of the certificate of completion bestowed at the conclusion of the course. Documentation is to be upload with the request for partial waiver request.

For Firearms Instructor – To receive credit from DCJS, each individual will need to submit the application for partial training exemption, $25 fee, and proof of their attendance, to include a copy of the certificate of completion bestowed at the conclusion of the course and

Official documentation that the applicant has successfully qualified with a minimum firearm range qualification of 85% in each of the following: revolver, semi-automatic handgun; and shotgun.  If applying for a Patrol Rifle instructor designation a minimum firearm range qualification of 85% is also required.  Documentation as well as the range scores are to be uploaded with the partial training waiver request.

6 VAC 20-173-90. Initial instructor application.

A. Each person applying for certification as an instructor shall meet the following minimum requirements for eligibility:

C. In addition to the instructor qualification requirements described in subsections A and B of this section, each applicant for certification as a firearms instructor shall submit to the department:

  1. Official documentation that the applicant has successfully completed a DCJS firearms instructor school or a waiver application with supporting documentation demonstrating completion of a firearms instructor school specifically designed for law-enforcement or private security personnel that meets or exceeds standards established by the department within the three years immediately preceding the date of the instructor application. 
  1. Official documentation, in the form of a signed, dated range sheet with the qualification score and course of fire as prescribed in the firearms training requirements in 6 VAC 20-174, that the applicant has successfully qualified, with a minimum range qualification of 85%, with each of the following:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                a. A revolver;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 b. semi-automatic handgun; and                                                                                                                                                                                               c. A shotgun.

Firearms instructors applying to provide patrol rifle training must submit official documentation in the form of a signed, dated range sheet that the applicant has successfully qualified, with a minimum range qualification of 85%, with a patrol rifle.