Field Training Officer
March 10 - 14, 2025
Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office Headquarters Community Room
5200 Soquel Avenue
Santa Cruz, CA 95062
8am - 5pm
Hosted by the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office
CA POST Certified:
#1345-31725-24-002
$889.00
This course fulfills the POST training requirements to certify F.T.O.’s and other law enforcement personnel with the responsibility of training law enforcement officers. This course is open to law enforcement officers and other agency personnel including Probation Officers and Community Service Officers.
The course focuses on the core functions of a F.T.O. which are to Teach, Evaluate and Document (T.E.D.).
We use advanced teaching skills to get the students thinking critically. We guide the students in becoming skilled teachers themselves.
We present specific examples of good and bad performance reports so the students really get to know what to write and what to avoid.
The students evaluate live role players and practice applying the Standard Evaluation Guidelines so they leave the course ready for the real thing.
Each student receives hands-on practice writing Daily Observation Reports and Remedial Training Plans as well as counseling trainees. They receive feedback from our instructors, so they understand specifically what is required of them as an FTO.
Each student graduates with an understanding of the laws pertaining to liability, training and performance evaluations.
Other topics include expectations, functions and roles of the Field Training Officer, ethics and professionalism, driver awareness/driver safety, mental health, and leadership.
Here are 5 reasons that our students say FTOs need to take this course:
- Spend five days teaching, evaluating, and documenting instead of listening to a dry lecture or “Death by Power Point”
- Learn from current and former FTOs and FTO Supervisors
- Learn how to be an FTO through careful analysis of real-incident videos and role players
- You’ll receive lots of examples of evaluation reports and get plenty of practice writing them
- Learn specifically how to apply the number scale to rate trainees
Plus get access to 10 refresher training videos featuring our Savage Training Group FTO Instructors!
The learning doesn’t stop when you leave this course. Each FTO student will receive 10 separate training videos sent to them in the weeks and months after the course. That means that the learning doesn’t stop after you attend our course.
These videos are a $268 value. We’re including them here at no additional charge for students who complete the course!
While not mandatory, students are highly encouraged to bring their laptops to the class.
Eddie Chan, Dom Gamboa and Garrett Slonicker are not only highly-experienced law enforcement professionals from Northern California, they're also expert instructors. Eddie is a current FTO Sergeant with the San Jose Police Department, where Garrett is also a current FTO. Dom is a former Training Unit Officer with the San Francisco Police Department and is a current Sergeant with the Broadmoor Police Department. Combined, Eddie, Dom and Garrett have decades of experience teaching law enforcement officers and are obsessed with delivering highly engaging courses. They are the reason why our FTO training programs are so different than the typical "Death by Power Point" courses.
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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