---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 97.12"
title: "28"
number: "97.12"
heading: "Employee training."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/97.12"
---

# §97.12. Employee training.


Private prisoner transport companies must require the completion of a minimum of 100 hours of employee training before an employee may transport violent prisoners. Training must include instruction in each of these six areas:

- (a) Use of restraints;
- (b) Searches of prisoners;
- (c) Use of force, including use of appropriate weapons and firearms;
- (d) Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR);
- (e) Map reading; and
- (f) **Defensive driving.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Pub. L. 106-560, 114 Stat. 2784 (42 U.S.C. 13726b).

### Source

Source: Order No. 2640-2002, 67 FR 78710, Dec. 26, 2002, unless otherwise noted.