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Feb. 4, 2021Omaha, NE |  By: AP

Police training bill wins key support, but challenges linger

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ 

A bill to boost training requirements for Nebraska law enforcement officers has 

won key support from some of the state's largest police groups, but smaller 

agencies balked at the cost and other measures designed to increase transparency 

faced stiff resistance. Organizations representing Omaha police officers and 

Nebraska police chiefs endorsed a proposal that would require a minimum of 40 

hours of training for officers every year, up from the current 20. The measure 

would also ban police chokeholds, mandate psychological evaluations for new 

hires, bar departments from employing officers before they're certified and 

require agencies to adopt use-of-force policies.