(1) The salaries of all officers of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol who have completed the course of instruction in an authorized highway patrol training school on general law enforcement, and are serving as a sworn officer of the Highway Patrol in the enforcement of the laws of the State of Mississippi, including service in the driver’s license division and the sworn officers of the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, shall be determined and paid in accordance with the scale for officers salaries as provided in this subsection:

Department of Public Safety Sworn Officers Salary Schedule

2015-2016 Fiscal Year and Thereafter

Rank

Rank

Department of Public Safety/MS Bureau of Narcotics

Sworn Officers Salary Schedule

2015-2016 Fiscal Year and Thereafter

(2) All sworn officers in the Mississippi Highway Patrol and the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics employed on a full-time basis shall be paid a salary in accordance with the above scale. The rank and years of experience of each sworn officer to be used in establishing the salary shall be determined by the rank and years of experience on July 1 of the current fiscal year.

(3) For purposes of applying the rank designation to the above scale, the following job classifications of the State Personnel Board shall be applicable for the Mississippi Highway Patrol:

(a) Trooper DPS-Highway Patrol Officer I

LE-Investigator II

(b) Trooper First Class DPS-Highway Patrol Officer II

LE-Investigator III

(c) Corporal DPS-Highway Patrol Officer III

LE-Investigator IV

(d) Sergeant DPS-Highway Patrol Officer IV

LE-Investigator V

(e) Staff Sergeant DPS-Highway Patrol Officer V

(f) Senior Staff Sergeant DPS-Highway Patrol Officer VI

Tech Spec

(g) Master Sgt/Sgt. F/C DPS-Assistant Inspector

DPS-Highway Patrol Officer VII

DPS-Investigator I

DPS-Supv. Driver Serv.

(h) Lieutenant DPS-Air Operations Officer

DPS-Dir. Corr. Intelligence

DPS-Dist. Executive Officer

DPS-Regional Supv. Driver. Serv.

DPS-Branch Director

LE-Dir/Training

LE-Dist. Investigator

(i) Captain DPS-Staff Officer (MHP)

(j) Major DPS-Bureau Director II

(k) Lt. Colonel DPS-Deputy Administrator;

DPS-Chief of Staff

(l) Colonel/Chief of Patrol Dir-Office of MS Hwy Safety Patrol

(4) For purposes of applying the rank designation to the above scale, the following job classifications of the State Personnel Board shall be applicable for the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics:

(a) Agents LE-Agent I

LE-Agent II

LE-Agent III

LE-Agent IV

LE-Agent V

LE-Agent VI

(b) Lieutenant BN-District Investigator (LT)

(c) Captain BN-District Commander

(d) Major BN-Bureau Director II

Office Director I

(e) Lt. Colonel BN-Deputy Administrator

(f) Colonel Director, Bureau of Narcotics

(5) In any fiscal year after July 1, 2015, in the event the Legislature provides across-the-board salary increases to state employees whose compensation is paid from the State General Fund and subject to specific appropriation therefor by the Legislature, the State Personnel Board shall revise the salary scale above to provide the same percentage or dollar amount increase as has been appropriated for other state employees.

(6) It shall be the duty of the Mississippi Department of Public Safety to file with the Legislative Budget Office and the State Fiscal Officer such data and information as may be required to enable the said Legislative Budget Office and State Fiscal Officer to budget and distribute the funds necessary to compensate the sworn officers of the Department of Public Safety according to the requirements of the salary scale. Such data and information so filed may be revised from time to time as necessitated to reflect the current number and experience of sworn officers employed by the department.