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Field Training Officer (FTO)

Course Covers:

How to select an FTO, Responsibilities of the FTO, Including Leadership Roles...

“Leadership is the lifting of man's visions to higher sights, the raising of a man's performance to a higher standard, the building of man's personality beyond its normal limitations-“ Peter F. Drucker

Errors of the FTO, Acceptance Into the Profession, First Day w/Recruit

Supervisory Role in FTO Process:

Supervisor involvement, whether at the sergeant, lieutenant, or captain level, is an important aspect to the FTO program. Direct involvement can be accomplished in a variety of ways. It is vital to the success of any proper FTO program that the involvement extends up the chain of command. The chief law enforcement officer of any department in the State of Utah must be aware of the actions of their FTO program on a regular basis

TRAINING LIABILITIES:

There are inherent liabilities with any training program. The purpose of this program is to reduce the liabilities associated with the training.

Basic liabilities can be the following:

- Negligent retention
- Negligent hiring
- Failure to adequately train
- Failure to document training errors
- Failure to document improvements
- Negligent assignment

SCENARIO BASED TRAINING:

One of the greatest improvements to the basic training curriculum at POST has been the implementation of the Scenario Based Training. It has been shown that force-on-force training, coupled with realistic scenarios, readies the recruit for the streets more than ever before.

Training also includes:

BUILDING A TRAINING FORM
VIDEO DOCUMENTATION
SCORING the RECRUIT
CONFLICT RESOLUTION
INTEGRITY & THE RECRUIT

TERMINATING THE RECRUIT:

1. What are the problems?
2. Have we identified the cause of the issue?
3. What have we done to correct them?
4. How much training and remediation has been done on the problem area and has it been well documented?
5. Were there any improvements and is there a chance the recruit will improve with time and extra training?

A written and skills based test will be administered where the officer needs to achieve 70% or greater to pass.

This course is limited to 35 students.

To RSVP for Field Training Officer, candidates should have Agency Administrator or Training Coordinator register them for the course through the POST Portal at www.post.utah.gov or contact Sheryl Allums at POST at sallums@utah.gov.

Student Notes:

• Please bring a "jump" or external drive to class to copy course materials and forms.
• A laptop computer is recommended for this class.
• Dress code for attending POST classes is a neat, clean, and professional appearance.  Slacks, shirts with collars, and/or department uniform can be worn.  No shorts, cut-offs, open toe shoes, sweats, tank tops, or t-shirts are permitted.

 

 

Course Dates	Location	TIme	Status
February 18-20, 2011 (Friday-Sunday class)	Training is co-hosted by Utah Peace Officer's Asso. The hosting agency is Washington County Sheriff's Office. Training location is 750 South 5300 West in the City of Hurricane.	0800	Completed
April 15-17, 2011 (Friday-Sunday class)	Hosted by the West Jordan Police Dept. Located at 8040 South Redwood Road (Police Training Room)	0800	Closed/Full
May 13-15, 2011 (Friday-Sunday class)	Hosted by the American Fork Police Department, training located at 75 East 80 North American Fork, Utah	0800	Completed
June 3-5, 2011 (Friday-Sunday class)	Hosted by the San Juan County Sheriff's Office in conjuction with UPOA and POST. Training held at the San Juan County Jail. Address is: 297 South Main Street Monticello, Utah	0800	Completed
September 14-16, 2011 (Wednesday-Friday class)	Hosted by POST, training located at 9800 South 410 West Sandy, Utah. (Room 118)	0800	Closed/Full
October 12-14, 2011 (Wednesday-Friday class)	Hosted by the West Valley Police Department. Training will be held at the West Valley Sub-Station located at 5315 West 3100 South West Valley City.	0800	Closed/Full
December 7-9, 2011 (Wednesday-Friday class)	Hosted by POST Region 2 and Weber State University.  Training located at the WSU Training and Learning Center 915 West Gordon Ave (1000 North) Layton, UT 84041	0800	Completed
March 26-28, 2012 (Please note date change)	Hosted by the Logan City Police Department.  Training located at the Logan PD training room at 62 West 300 North Logan City.	0800	Open

 

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Last updated: January 24, 2012 3:10 PM