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Training
Vector Solutions Launches Tool for Connecting Training and Certification Records Between Academies, Agencies, and State Regulatory Agencies
AgencyConnect provides a real-time, single repository across state agencies, academies, and local departments. It enables state training authorities to automatically collect and verify records.
October 12, 2023
Blogs
Training
February 3, 2011
Vehicle Ops
Skidcar Hosts Driver Training Conference
This year's event will include a broader base that just those in the driver training industry, and will include representatives from law enforcement, fire, EMS, military, municipal fleets, and private driver training academies.
October 30, 2012
Training
Oregon Training Rules Could Prevent Portland from Hiring More Officers
The state requires that all new officers go to the state Department of Public Safety Standards and Training, and the academies the officers are required to complete are held at certain times with limited enrollment.
December 1, 2021
Technology
Cubic Equips College with 'Tactical Village'
The contract for more than $700,000 is with College of Dupage, a 30,000-student community college in Glen Ellyn, a Chicago suburb. It operates the Suburban Law Enforcement Academy (SLEA), one of six police academies in the state. The college is in the process of constructing a 66,000-square-foot facility called the Homeland Security Training Center.
April 18, 2011
Careers
Traffic Control 101
Most academies show a presentation and tell you your Field Training Officer (FTO) will properly instruct you. The reality is your FTO will wheel into a crash scene, check for injuries, and tell you to handle traffic. Here lies the problem — no real instruction, and please be mindful of your hand gestures.
January 9, 2011
Patrol
Centers of Higher Learning
Although most agencies supply their officers with basic firearms training, there are reasons that law enforcement officers are some of the most active attendees of specialized gun training academies.
March 31, 2002
Special Units
Seeing the Light
When John Matthews developed the first SureFire flashlight, he realized that for officers to get the most benefit out of the light, they would need special training. So Matthews, now president and CEO of SureFire, created the SureFire Institute, one of the nation's premier low-light combat training academies.
July 31, 2007
Command
Newsweek: Apprenticeships Would Improve Police Training
Unlike the shorter police academies, future officers serve as apprentices or cadets for a two-to-three-year program involving comprehensive learning through years of field experience and classroom instruction.
February 15, 2023
Technology
Video: Arizona DPS Buys $2 Million of High-Tech Training Simulators
The Arizona Department of Public Safety has spent more than $2 million on virtual training simulators, designed to immerse officers in real-world scenarios.
December 20, 2016
Training
OR Agency Proposes Accelerated Training Schedule for New Officers
The agency proposed a $6.4 million plan to add night classes and grow academies from the traditional 40-person class to 60 people. It would mean hundreds more new officers trained over the next two years.
June 7, 2023
Patrol
Virginia's Expedited Academies for Out-of-State Laterals and the Worth of Water
When contemplating Virginia's action to attract laterals with a foreshortened academy stint, the sayings "Robbing Peter to pay Paul" and "Missing the forest for the trees" come immediately and inevitably to mind.
December 16, 2022
Patrol
U.S. Law Enforcement Cites Tangible Progress in Iraqi Training
Army Brig. Gen. David Phillips, deputy commander of the Civilian Police Assistance Training Team, reports that tangible gains have been achieved with regard to the police force's relationships with Iraqi ministries and justice, judicial capacity is on the rise, corruption is being pursued internally, and the training program is continuing to expand.
June 10, 2007
Patrol
Why Citizens Academies are Good for Policing ...and How to Stand One Up
A Citizens Police Academy has the potential—when well planned and well executed—to positively impact police-community relations. Here are a couple of observations I've had in attending a handful of CPAs.
November 22, 2019
Patrol
Foundation Named for Drowned Officer Provides Cops with Water Rescue Training, Equipment
Despite having experience as a lifeguard, Officer Enmanuel “Manny” Familia lost his life in June of last year while trying to save a teenager from drowning in Worcester, MA. To honor and celebrate his life, his family started the Manny 267 Foundation.
May 11, 2022
Patrol
Congresswoman Proposes National Standard for De-escalation Training and Use of Force
“We want our officers using force really that [is] proportional to the situation,” Moore said in an interview on Wednesday. “This is about giving police officers additional training assets with regard to encounters that don’t necessarily have to end up with a use of deadly force.”
May 13, 2016
Training
New MA Police Training Facility Opens
The Municipal Police Training Committee (MPTC), an agency within the state Executive Office of Public Safety and Security (EOPSS), opened a new municipal police training facility in central Massachusetts to bridge the gap in training for officers.
January 25, 2022
Training
Colo. Sheriff Launches Hiring Initiative with Tax Revenue
El Paso County (Colo.) Sheriff Terry Maketa hired 40 deputies in January with new sales tax revenue and plans to hire nearly 90 additional deputies in the coming months.
January 31, 2013
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