The Promoting Police Leadership Act amends the federal COPS program to create specialized leadership training for command-level police personnel, meaning officers who manage or oversee law enforcement operations within a geographic area of their department. Within 180 days of enactment, the Attorney General must develop or identify training curricula covering leadership, critical incident response, risk management, officer wellness, data-driven policing, and community trust-building, with an emphasis on in-person instruction and hands-on problem-solving projects. The Attorney General will then set up a certification process for training programs that use this curriculum and must publish a list of law enforcement agencies whose officers have completed the training, including participation rates. The bill also requires the Attorney General to report annually to Congress for several years on implementation progress, and requires the Government Accountability Office to review the program's rollout within three years. Importantly, the law does not override any state or local authority to set their own police training and certification standards, meaning it adds a federal training resource without replacing existing state-level requirements.
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