Basic Field Training Officer - 40 Hour - Dworak

This five-day, 40-hour training program, is intended to be a practical, informational and hands on program. The purpose of the course is to give law enforcement personnel the knowledge and skills they need to train other law enforcement personnel on a one-to-one basis. The graduates of this program will have basic knowledge in a variety of topics including adult learning, coaching, and the design of a typical FTO program.

Provide the Field Training Officer with the knowledge needed to work with, guide, coach, teach, evaluate, and mentor a newly hired police officer.

Give the new FTO the tools needed to help the trainee to transfer and apply what they were taught in academy, along with other life experiences, to situations the officer will encounter on a daily basis.

Familiarize the trainee with the department, the department’s vision, goals and objectives and the environment the trainee will be working in.

Provide the trainee with daily guidance, direction, monitoring, while being faithful, fair, and objective.

The primary prerequisite is a strong desire to train others and see others succeed. This course is offered to any law enforcement personnel who want to learn how to train another person one-on-one or law enforcement personnel who are already training one-to-one, but have not received any formal FTO training.