Supervision and Management

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Designed to ensure that students get the most from law enforcement training courses and trainers receive support in the latest training strategies and methods, this program follows a River City Police Department officer who receives an assignment to lead training and must follow a process of getting up to speed on various training methods.

The telecourse examines several aspects of law enforcement training, including new training mandates, course delivery techniques, and emerging training technologies. Basics of subject matter expertise training styles, building learning activities, modeling, and student interaction are incorporated into updated scenarios in the program.

The DVD program offers two viewing options:

1. Play Telecourse in its entirety (105 min.)

2. Select among seven Telecourse segments:

• So You Think You Want to Be a Trainer? (10 min.)
• The Denny's Scenario (19 min.)
• The Terrorist Traffic Stop (32 min.)
• Missing Persons Workshop (10 min.)
• The Backpack Scenario (11 min.)
• You Can Do It! (4 min.)
• Behind the Scenes (14 min.)

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Credible Leadership

This program takes the viewer through a series of segments on leadership and presents specific steps and strategies to becoming a successful leader. The program teaches that, to be successful as a leader, self-evaluation is critical. The video encourages the viewer to evaluate himself/herself against the leadership skills and models that are presented. Segments present everyday situations in which individuals can exercise leadership skills by doing the right thing. All ranks and a variety of disciplines are presented.

The DVD program offers two viewing options:

1. Play Telecourse in its entirety (140 min.)

2. Select among ten Telecourse segments:

• Introduction (2 min.)
• Why Leadership Matters (8 min.)
• Emotional Intelligence (15 min.)
• A True Story (4 min.)
• Emotional Intelligence: Behind the Scenes (6 min.)
• On Becoming A Leader (13 min.)
• On Becoming A Leader: Behind the Scenes (7 min.)
• Accountability and Responsibility (15 min.)
• Accountability and Responsibility: Behind the Scenes (5 min.)
• Courageous Followership (4 min.)

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Field Training Officer (FTO) Course Videos

This single DVD is a revised compilation of three POST Field Training Officer (FTO) video programs. Available on DVD format only. RESTRICTED RELEASE - MAY NOT BE ORDERED ONLINE (see note below).

Accompanying print materials and video guide available online at www.post.ca.gov/training/bt_bureau/scenarios.asp.

Segments include:

Introduction (2004 - 2 min.), describes the purpose of the FTO Course Video DVD;

The FTO Course: Discussion Scenarios (May 2003 - 28 min.), describes the goals of FTO programs and details the elements of the Basic Course (Academy), trainee learning styles, ethics, trainee attitude, trainee stress, FTO responses, and legal issues;

FTO Evaluation Scenarios (1999 - 70 min.), series of scenarios to train FTOs to properly and consistently evaluate their trainees. The viewer watches examples of common occurrences with trainees and determines specific issues a FTO should address without the distractions of arrest methods and other agency specific tactical and operational issues;

The FTO Course: Documentation Scenarios (May 2003 - 17 min.), reviews documentation using three scenarios involving an FTO and trainee in specific field circumstances. After each scenario, the viewer documents the performance of the trainee using the Daily Observation Report. Scenarios include “use of force,” “officer safety,” and “not responding to training.”

** NOTE FOR CA POST AGENCIES: VIDEO RESTRICTED TO CERTIFIED PRESENTERS OF POST FTO/FTO UPDATE COURSES OR POST PTO COURSES - California POST agencies must contact the POST Basic Training Bureau at (916) 227-3935 to order**

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Incident Supervision

Using three specific scenarios, this program demonstrates techniques for effective incident supervision and highlights the role of the supervisor as a manager and a leader. Includes insights from officers at both the line level and command levels, plus commentary from national experts in management and supervision. Underscores the importance of specific leadership skills in law enforcement, including technical skills, interpersonal skills, and conceptual skills.

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Leadership and Supervision

Explores the moment-by-moment nature of leadership in law enforcement and underscores the premise that leadership on the job is less taught than it is absorbed. Makes the distinction that managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who do the right thing. Leadership principles presented include connecting, creating, communicating, confronting, commending, confessing, caring, coaching, character, and commanding. The DVD offers options of 1) Play telecourse in its entirety, 2) Play telecourse as 8 separate segments, or 3) Select among 8 telecourse interaction segments. Based on original November 2001 telecourse program.

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Qualities of a Good F.T.O.

The success of a Field Training Officer (FTO) is dependent upon the ability to:

• Translate experience and understanding into training
• Gain the attention, participation, and trust of the trainee
• Develop awareness, decision making skills, and confidence in the trainee

This telecourse examines how one FTO approaches these three points over the
course of a single shift of the River City Police Department. Within that span of
time, the program touches on several key topic areas, including:

• The value of getting to know your trainee
• The importance of personal preparation
• The elements of verbal/communication skills
• Teaching skills: Primary and remedial
• Evaluation skills: Delivery of good news and bad news

As individual scenes of the telecourse unfold, five experienced FTOs from
throughout California comment on them with regard to approach, style, and
effectiveness of a quality Field Training Officer.

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The Role of the Chief

In this telecourse, the viewer spends a day with the police chief of a mid-sized California city, following him from meeting to meeting, watching what it is like to meet the needs of the job on a daily basis. In addition, other chiefs and law enforcement professionals discuss the expectations placed on the chief and the tools required to meet these expectations successfully. Viewers also hear why some chiefs aspired to the
job and how they prepared themselves for selection. Viewers learn the role of listening and team-building, the importance of communication, the value of having a clear vision for the department, the essential role played by command staff, and the keys to dealing with other city officials and department heads.

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Training Officer Skills

The role of the training officer is among the most important in any law enforcement agency. It is the training officer who is charged with passing on the values and culture of the agency, making certain the new generation of field officers continue the agency's mission and philosophy.

This program reviews several facets of contemporary law enforcement training— from a look at today’s trainee, to strategies that training officers may use to address attitude, conflict, intervention, and remediation. The video focuses on the knowledge base, protocols, approaches, methods, skills and techniques that develop professional training officers within an effective officertraining program. Developed from both a “best practices” and a “lessons learned” approach, the program utilizes discussion-stimulating scenarios, combined with comments and insight from experts in the field of officer training programs.

The video program offers three viewing options:

1. Play video in its entirety (109 min.)

2. Select among 11 Telecourse segments:
• Introduction (2 min.)
• Today's Trainee (8 min.)
• Expectations (6 min.)
• Teaching Skills (15 min.)
• The Model Training Program (14 min.)
• Adaptability (13 min.)
• Training Supervision (9 min.)
• Mentoring (10 min.)
• Accountability (11 min.)
• Intervention and Remediation (13 min.)
• Ethics and Integrity (9 min.)

3. Select among 5 video interactions (scenarios only):
• Trainee's Commitment
• Trainee's Ethics
• Mixed Signals from Trainers
• The Trainer Process
• Trainer Accountability

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