CJK0073C – Crimes Involving Property and Society is a 12-hour course within Florida's 770-hour Law Enforcement Basic Recruit Training Program, carrying zero credit hours as a clock-hour academy component.
Where CJK0072 covers offenses against people, this course covers offenses against property and against public order — theft in its various degrees, burglary, criminal mischief, fraud and worthless checks, dealing in stolen property, trespass, drug offenses, weapons offenses, disorderly conduct, and offenses involving alcohol and gambling. These are, by volume, what patrol officers handle most.
Twelve hours is brief for that scope, and the course is correspondingly focused on elements: what distinguishes petit theft from grand theft, burglary from trespass, criminal mischief from vandalism as a lay term, and constructive from actual possession. Florida's theft and burglary statutes turn on specific value thresholds and structural definitions, and charging correctly at the scene determines what the State Attorney can file.
Drug offenses receive attention proportionate to their frequency. Recruits cover Florida's controlled substance schedules under Chapter 893, the distinction between possession and possession with intent, drug paraphernalia, trafficking thresholds, and the constructive possession doctrine that so often decides these cases.
The course is offered at approximately 20 Florida institutions, all of them state colleges operating criminal justice training centers or regional public safety academies: Chipola, College of Central Florida, College of the Florida Keys, Daytona State, Eastern Florida State, Florida Gateway, Florida State College at Jacksonville, Gulf Coast State, Hillsborough, Indian River State, Miami Dade, North Florida, Northwest Florida State, Palm Beach State, Pasco-Hernando, Pensacola State, Santa Fe, South Florida State, St. Johns River, and Seminole State.
The Law Enforcement Basic Recruit Training Program (LEBRTP) is a 770-hour academy required for certification as a sworn law enforcement officer under Chapter 943, Florida Statutes. The curriculum is written and maintained by the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission (CJSTC) through the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, so content is consistent statewide. The full sequence:
Every component is a clock-hour course carrying zero credit hours, and none counts toward an associate degree.
Completing this course does not certify anyone. Recruits must finish the full 770-hour academy, pass the State Officer Certification Examination (SOCE), and satisfy the employment and background requirements of Chapter 943, F.S. Certification is granted by CJSTC, not by the college, and an officer must also be employed by an agency to be certified.
Requirements attach to the academy rather than to this individual course: minimum age 19, U.S. citizenship, high school diploma or equivalent, no felony convictions or disqualifying misdemeanors, a background investigation, a physical examination and drug screening, and a passing score on the Florida Basic Abilities Test (CJBAT). Requirements are set in statute and by the training center.
Academy training is PSAV clock-hour instruction, not college credit, and does not transfer as general education. Many Florida colleges award block credit toward an A.S. in Criminal Justice Technology for full academy completion plus certification, under local articulation agreements rather than statewide SCNS equivalency. Confirm terms with the receiving institution.
Officers already certified in another discipline — corrections to law enforcement, for instance — complete abbreviated crossover programs drawing on a subset of these courses rather than the full academy. Candidates should work from the crossover curriculum published by their training center.
The course appears as both CJK0073 and CJK0073C in Florida catalogs; Santa Fe College's program listing uses CJK0073 at 12 contact hours. Under SCNS the forms are equivalent at the same level, and the C designation reflects an integrated practical component at some training centers.
This is the shortest substantive legal block in the academy relative to its scope, and recruits should understand that it is an introduction to offense elements rather than comprehensive coverage. Officers learn the bulk of this material in the field, from field training officers, State Attorney feedback on filed cases, and agency legal bulletins. What the course provides is the framework and the habit of thinking in elements.
Florida's property offenses turn on thresholds — the value of property taken, the amount of damage, the quantity of a substance — and misclassifying at the scene creates problems the State Attorney must later fix or drop. Instructors emphasize documenting the facts that establish the threshold, in the report, at the time. An officer who records that a television was taken but not its value has not established grand theft.
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