40E - Bail Bondsmen
Bail bondsman core training - 40 hours
- Orientation - two hours.
- Ethical standards
- Professionalism
- Misrepresentation
- Conflicts of interest
- Information protection, confidentiality, and discretion requirements
- Brief introduction to Code of Virginia and regulations relating to bail bondsman
- Ethical standards
- Law - 12 hours plus one practical exercise.
- Code of Virginia and regulations relating to bail bondsman
- Definitions
- Licensing procedures and requirements
- Compulsory minimum training standards
- Standards of practice and prohibited acts
- Administrative requirements/standards of conduct
- Administrative reviews, complaints, procedures, and responsibilities
- Basic law
- Legal terminology and definitions
- Purpose and function of law
- U.S. Constitution
- Amendments
- Bill of Rights
- Landmark cases
- Limitations and liability
- Surety and property law
- Surety bail bondsman
- Insurance companies
- Agent vs. attorney-in-fact
- Virginia qualification requirements
- Property bail bondsman
- Virginia property requirements
- Agent requirements
- Surety bail bondsman
- Courts
- Civil court system
- Federal
- State
- Local jurisdiction
- Definitions
- Civil judicial procedures
- Criminal court system
- State and federal
- Legal authority and related issues
- Liability concerns
- Definitions/interpretations
- Magistrates
- Civil court system
- Release from legal obligation
- When defendant answers charge
- Circulate the bail piece release
- Special considerations
- The recognizance
- Preliminary hearing
- Bond continuation pending pre-sentence report
- Sentencing
- Withhold findings
- Bond reinstatement
- Code of Virginia and regulations relating to bail bondsman
- Fugitive recovery - 24 hours plus one practical exercise.
- Legal procedures
- Bondsman's legal right to recover
- Notice of show cause hearing
- Entry of finding of default
- Payment of forfeiture
- Recovery: 24 months from entry of finding of default
- Section 9.1-185.15 of the Code of Virginia, recovery of bailees
- Criminal statutes
- Liability considerations/liability insurance
- Case law
- Law enforcement
- State
- Federa
- Reasonable force to effect apprehension
- Use of recovery agents in Virginia
- Virginia legal requirements
- Recovery agents authority
- Employee vs. independent contractor
- Liability considerations/liability insurance
- Investigative techniques
- Surveillance
- Court research
- Law-enforcement coordination
- Interviewing
- Impersonation and misrepresentation
- Reference materials and resource list
- Skip-tracing techniques
- Fugitive identification
- Recovery procedures
- Pursuit
- Foot
- Vehicular
- Other
- Entry and search
- Perimeter/interior room control
- Pursuit
- Agent survival
- Confrontation management
- Use of force
- Deadly force
- Escalation of force
- Emergency procedures
- Apprehension of a fugitive
- Compliant versus noncompliant procedures
- Search of person
- Personal items
- Seizure of contraband
- Handcuffing techniques
- Rights of the accused
- Detainment and transportation
- Interstate transport
- False arrest
- Legal procedures
- Responsibilities of bondsman and remanding to custody two hours plus one practical exercise.
- Recovery in Virginia
- Recovery out of Virginia; Uniform Extradition Act
- International recovery
- Legal detainment facilities
- Entering the jail or sally port
- Signing the bail piece/return to court
- Hospital procedures for injuries
- Documentation - two hours plus one practical exercise.
- Required by the courts
- Required by DCJS
- Recordkeeping
- Reporting
- Retaining records
- Written examination
Total hours (excluding exam) - 40 hours