1941_public local laws_290_13
CHAPTER 289 AN ACT TO REGULATE THE SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY BY PLACING THE SHERIFF AND DEPUTY SHERIFFS ON A SALARY AND FULL TIME BASIS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That before any of the said full time deputy sheriffs including the jailer shall take office, it shall be the duty of the high sheriff, as director, and the judge and solicitor of the recorders court and county attorney, as assistants thereto, to organize, schedule, and direct and attend a school or training period for a week to ten days for the use and benefit of the said deputy sheriffs, whose duty it shall be to attend every class and session of the same. That in the said training period the said officers shall be taught and instructed as much as possible as to the use of firearms, the most commonly violated criminal laws and especially the traffic laws and rules of safety, first aid, laws and rules relating to criminal procedure, arrest, bonds, principal rules of evidence in trial of cases in court, and the main rules of courtesy and hospitality in dealing with and serving visitors and public in general, and along any other subject or course most needed by said officers. That it shall be the duty of the high sheriff, the county attorney, and judge and solicitor of recorders court to conduct for the benefit of said deputy sheriffs and jailer a similar training school at least for a period of one week or more every year hereafter. That at said training schools, it shall be the duty of the sheriff to invite the State highway patrolmen, the Superior Court solicitor and any of the judges thereof when available and any other competent and informed person to attend any of the sessions of said schools. That as far as possible the board of commissioners and the sheriff shall afford an opportunity to the said officers to attend and study, as they deem advisable, any course or training offered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the State Bureau of Investigation, and the Institute of Government.