YourVoice.Now Summary
Workers & JobsTransparency & AccountabilityFederal leadership courses for police commanders — voluntary, with a public list of departments that finish them
Workers & Jobs
The Justice Department would write new courses or pick good existing ones for officers who run a district or precinct. Courses must be mostly in person and end with a real plan the commander presents to their command. Police departments, groups that represent police officers, and universities would help shape them.
Training groups could ask the Justice Department to approve their courses, including ones already running. The department would drop approval for a course that stops meeting the standard. No police department has to use these courses.
Transparency & Accountability
Within a year after the courses and approvals are set up, the Justice Department would post a list of police departments whose officers finished a course. The list shows each department's total officers and how many finished.
The Government Accountability Office, Congress's watchdog, would check how the Justice Department built and approved the courses. Its report is due within three years.
More about this bill
Most people would see no direct change from this bill. It asks the Justice Department to create or pick training courses for police commanders. These are officers who run a district or precinct for a state, local, or Tribal police force. The courses would cover leadership, handling crises, officer wellness, using data, and building community trust. The Attorney General would have 180 days to set up the courses. Police departments, groups that speak for officers, and universities would help. Within another 180 days, the department would start approving outside courses that meet the standard. It could pull approval from courses that fall short. Within a year after that, it would post a public list of police departments whose officers finished a course. The bill adds no new money and does not make the training required. States keep their own power to set police training rules.
Congressional Summary
Promoting Police Leadership Act This bill directs the Department of Justice (DOJ) to develop training curricula or identify existing training curricula for command-level personnel related to leadership and strategic thinking, critical incident response and management, risk management, officer wellness, data analysis and data-driven policing tactics, evidence-based decision-making, and building community trust. The term command-level personnel means state, local, or tribal law enforcement officers whose responsibilities include managing, directing, or overseeing law enforcement operations in a geographic subunit of the jurisdiction. In developing and identifying curricula, the bill requires DOJ to consult with relevant state and local law enforcement agencies, organizations and fraternal associations, universities with appropriate enforcement or leadership programs, and other entities. DOJ must also develop a process for certifying training programs that include the curricula. Finally, the bill requires the Government Accountability Office to review and report on the process for developing and identifying curricula and the certification of training programs.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- Senate
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Passed Senate
- Action Date
- 2026-06-10
- Date Added
- 2026-10-02
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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