The Criminal Justice Professionalism Division within the Florida Department of Law Enforcement has created professional, comprehensive, and interesting online training courses that satisfy the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission’s (CJSTC) mandate for officer re-certification. The training topics required for re-certification include: Mental Health and Wellness for Criminal Justice Officers, Misuse of Electronic Database, Juvenile Sexual Offender Investigation, Discriminatory Profiling & Professional Traffic Stops/Human Diversity, Domestic Violence, Physiological Response Dynamics Training Video and other courses of interest to law enforcement personnel. All training hours are free and eligible for use toward the CJSTC 40 hour mandatory retraining requirement.

Please refer to the Mandatory Retraining Requirements page for the complete list of training topics required for initial and re-certification.

Mandatory Retraining Topics

Officers are required to complete these training topics every 4 years to maintain their certification.

• Discriminatory Profiling & Professional Traffic Stops (2 Hours Credit)
• Domestic Violence (2 Hours Credit)
• Juvenile Sexual Offender Investigations (2 Hours Credit)
• Mental Health and Wellness for Criminal Justice Officers (2 Hours Credit)
• Misuse of Electronic Databases (1 Hour Credit)
• Physiological Response Dynamics Training (1 Hour Credit)

Statutorily Required Training Topics

Officers are required to complete these one-time training topics either through initial certification or to maintain their certification.

• Elder Abuse Investigations (1 Hour Credit)
• Identify and Investigate Human Trafficking (4 Hours Credit)
• Lethality Assessment Training for Law Enforcement Officers (1 Hour Credit)
• Recognizing Head Injuries in Infants and Children (1 Hour Credit)
• Victims of Sexual Offenses (2 Hours Credit)

Elective Training Topics

Officers may elect to complete any of these training topics to fulfill their 40-hour training requirement every 4 years.

• Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Training for Criminal Justice Officers (2 Hours Credit)
• Autism Awareness Telecommunicator (1 Hour Credit)
  *This course will NOT fulfill the requirement in SB 418: Law Enforcement Officer Interactions with Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The course that will fulfill the mandatory officer training requirement in SB 418 will be approved by the CJSTC in May 2027 and placed above under Statutorily Required Training Topics.
• Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) & Interviews (1 Hour Credit)
• Behavioral Threat Assessment for Officers (1 Hour Credit)
• Communication Exercises - Corrections (2 Hours Credit)
• Communication Exercises - Law Enforcement (2 Hours Credit)
• Criminal Justice Officer Ethics and the Role of the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission (4 Hours Credit)
• Diabetic Emergency and Officer Response (2 Hours Credit)
• E-FORCSE Information Security and Privacy Training (1 Hour Credit)
• Eyewitness Identification (1 Hour Credit)
• Fentanyl Safety for Law Enforcement (1 Hour Credit)
• Florida Purple Alert Training (1 Hour Credit)
• Florida Silver Alert Training (1 Hour Credit)
• Florida Spectrum Alert Training (1 Hour Credit)
  *This course will NOT fulfill the requirement in SB 418: Law Enforcement Officer Interactions with Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The course that will fulfill the mandatory officer training requirement in SB 418 will be approved by the CJSTC in May 2027 and placed above under Statutorily Required Training Topics.
• Item Writing (2 Hours Credit)
• Medical Marijuana (4 Hours Credit)
• Property Repossession Processes (2 Hours Credit)
• Risk Protection Orders (1 Hour Credit)
• Role-Play Scenarios for Facilitative Learning (2 Hours Credit)
• Stress Management and Mental Health (1 Hour Credit)
• The Use and Control of Informants: A Patrol Officer's Primer (2 Hours Credit)

Non-FDLE Online Training Courses

Officers may elect to complete any of these non-FDLE trainings.

• Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR)