---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 C.F.R. § 709.32"
title: "10"
number: "709.32"
heading: "Training requirements for polygraph examiners."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/10/709.32"
---

# §709.32. Training requirements for polygraph examiners.

- (a) Examiners must complete an initial training course of thirteen weeks, or longer, in conformance with the procedures and standards established by DODPI.
- (b) Examiners must undergo annual continuing education for a minimum of forty hours training within the discipline of Forensic Psychophysiological Detection of Deception.
- (c) The following organizations provide acceptable curricula to meet the training requirement of [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section:
  - (1) American Polygraph Association,
  - (2) American Association of Police Polygraphists, and
  - (3) **Department of Defense Polygraph Institute.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 2011, et seq., 7101, et seq., 7144b, et seq., 7383h-1; 50 U.S.C. 2401, et seq.

### Source

Source: 71 FR 57392, Sept. 29, 2006, unless otherwise noted.