Field Training Officer

This cutting edge course is the first in the nation to be presented specifically for 21st century field training officers. We will use an innovative approach to deliver a dynamic, accelerated, hard-hitting and fast-paced classroom experience that will prepare you to successfully train and mentor a new recruit.

Using the San Jose Model as its core, this course features the “best practice” legally defendable evaluation process that is being used in public safety agencies across the country. This FTO program model has been successfully defended in Federal Court. We will explain the benefits of using the Field Training and Evaluation Program during employee selection and your specific roles as a field training officer will be presented and discussed.

Trainee documentation and legally defendable standardized evaluation procedures will be instructed through discussion and practical exercises. You will learn about the FTO program’s structure and how to modify it specifically for your agency. Remedial training action plans will be developed to address your trainee’s performance weaknesses.

We will also provide you with the information you need to make valuable improvements to your agency’s existing program.
This course is designed for all categories of sworn law enforcement officers ranging from patrol and corrections to federal agencies, court houses, state officers, wildlife officers and law enforcement rangers; officers who conduct on-the-job field training of newly hired recruit officers; shift sergeants and corporals responsible for the daily supervision of FTOs and their trainees; watch commanders unfamiliar with FTO program processes; patrol managers; agency training officers; FTO program managers who have not attended the basic Field Training Officer course and FTOs whose basic FTO training was more than the “gold standard” of five years ago.

This course is restricted to sworn and non-sworn law enforcement personnel.