Training

Program Budget Overview

Description

• The Police Department’s Training program addresses the SER Responsibly Governed goal and its outcome “Enhances and facilitates transparency, accuracy, efficiency, effectiveness, and quality customer service in all city business.” This program is responsible for training, acquiring training for new recruits, ensuring academies are certified to POST standards, maintaining training records, ensuring all officers maintain the POST certification annually, mentoring new police officers and researching and testing new leading-edge equipment.

Sustainability, Equity and Resilience (SER) Goal area: Responsibly Governed

• Objectives
  • Enhances and facilitates transparency, accuracy, efficiency, effectiveness, and quality customer service in all city business.

Program Outcomes

• Maintain compliance with state-mandated training hours,
• Highly trained staff to meet needs of community,
• Train police officers in nationwide policing best practices,
• Improve job knowledge and education of all department staff,
• Highly trained staff that provide improved police services delivery to the community and that meet the needs of the community, and
• Reduce use of force incidents.

Measurements

Potential KPI(s) include:

• # of officers training
• # of department-wide mandatory officer trainings
• # of community engagement de-escalation trainings
• # of use of force reports
• # of compliments
• # of complaints