The Torrington Police Department recently hosted a Field Training Officer certification program conducted by The Trainer’s Edge, Ltd
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TORRINGTON – The Torrington Police Department recently hosted a Field Training Officer certification program conducted by The Trainer’s Edge, Ltd. The program provided officers, dispatchers and other personnel with an understanding of adult education and training principles to enhance officer’s ability to train other law enforcement officers.
Officers from Wyoming and Nebraska began the week-long training on Monday, June 28, and graduated on Friday, July 2.
According to The Trainer’s Edge, Ltd.’s website, “Our instructors expect excellence in ourselves and our students. Throughout our three programs, our goal is to provide effective tools and resources needed to make you and your training program successful.”
Police Chief Matt Johnson described the training as a great benefit for not only the department, but also the Torrington community.
Johnson said having trainings locally allows the department to have free slots in the class and is a much more affordable alternative to sending an officer to training events. When an officer is sent to training, the city incurs travel, food and lodging expenses, the officer’s salary and oftentimes overtime compensation. This adds up quickly, Johnson added.
In addition to saving the city money, city businesses also benefit from having local emergency response training events.
“When they come here, they buy food, they buy gas and they stay at our hotels,” Johnson said. “It saves the city money while also boosting local sales.”
In addition to the positive outcomes of hosting a local training, Johnson said this training will resolve an issue they were concerned about previously.
The department currently has multiple openings for police officers. Without this training and certification, the department was unable to provide the highest quality of instruction and training to their new officers.
With the training, new officers will have a trained, educated and certified officer teaching them the ways of the trade, so the city can benefit from having better trained officers from the very start.
