Effective Police Training
March 6, 2026
Marina Park Community Center
1600 W. Balboa Blvd.
Newport Beach, CA 92663
8am - 5pm
Hosted by the Newport Beach Police Department
CA POST Certified:
#1345-31759-25-004 - Plan N/A
$299.00
A course for trainers and agency leaders looking for new and effective approaches to police in-service training.
"That's the way we've always done it" isn't good enough anymore, especially when your officers are facing unprecedented scrutiny and legal exposure. We believe the way your department conducts in-service training for officers should be effective, but when was the last time you took a hard look at how that training is conducted?
Join us as we explore the issues with conventional in-service training and why it isn't truly preparing officers to perform in the field. We'll examine the contemporary methods that some progressive agencies are using to train their staff and the success they are seeing. You'll walk away with simple tools you can use to improve your department's in-service training.
Curriculum Includes:
- How to create realistic scenario-based training that will lead to improved performance in the field
- Teaching adaptability, sense-making, problem solving, and decision-making instead of just teaching techniques
- Interleaving diverse topics such as firearms, defensive tactics, legal update and more to create holistic training that works
- A step-by-step walkthrough and videos showing how the instructors used these methods in their agency
Learn how to increase the effectiveness of your department training. The instructors will share the techniques they used to create training that works.
Your Instructors:
Scott Savage is the founder and CEO of Savage Training Group. While serving at the Santa Clara Police Department in California, Scott and the department’s training unit set about transforming their in-service training from “block and silo” mandatory training days to an interleaved, scenario-based training program that increased officer performance in the field. Now Scott shares exactly how they did it in our Effective Police Training Course. In 2023, Scott retired with 24 years of experience as an officer and sergeant in Northern California. His previous assignments include SWAT, Team Leader on a Crisis Negotiation Team, and full-time assignment to a terrorism/intelligence task force. Scott is a nationally certified instructor through IADLEST and a graduate of FEMA’s Master Exercise Practitioner Program. More about Scott
Instructor Kyle Cardin is the Training Sergeant with Santa Clara Police Department (CA). He previously served with the San Jose Police Department (CA) where his assignments included being a member of the full time SWAT Team (known as M.E.R.G.E.), Field Training Officer, and Academy Instructor. More about Kyle
Payment Methods
Once you enter the student information below and click "Register", you will be taken to a checkout page where you can pay using a credit card, or you may request that an invoice be sent to your department that can be paid online or by check and sent by mail. Please note that invoices incur a $15.00 non-refundable processing fee.
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