Field Training Officer (FTO) Instructor Course

The Northeast Alabama Law Enforcement Academy will present a Field Training Officer (FTO) Instructor Course. The tuition for the course includes all handout materials and refreshments. This course is designed for veteran and newly assigned FTO's within their agencies. The course will begin at the Academy at 8:00 am.

Using the San Jose model as its core, the course features the legally defendable evaluation process that is being used in public safety agencies across the country and which has been adopted by the CALEA accreditation standards.

The benefits of the field training approach in employee selection will be identified and legally defendable standardized evaluation procedures will be instructed through discussion and practical exercises. Attendees will learn how to teach the FTO program structure, how to modify it, key elements and documentation. Also, remedial training action plans will be developed to address employee performance deficiencies.

The course will provide attendees with the information they need to create an FTO program from scratch or to make valuable improvements to an existing program.

Subjects that will be included in this course include:

• Basic FTO program concepts
• Ethical issues
• Basic program forms
• Shift supervisor responsibilities
• The program structure
• The daily observation report
• Rating scale application
• Narrative evaluations
• How stress impacts trainee performance
• Adult learning
• Remedial Training and NRT
• Remedial Training Plans
• Legal Issues
• The train Checklist

This cost of this course is $225.00.