Field Training Officer Update
June 2 - 4, 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:
#1345-31715-24-002
$595.00
Your agency on average spends $100K to hire a new officer and get them through the field training program. But how much thought has been put into the training your FTOs receive? We've designed a new, modern FTO Update course that guarantees that your FTOs will learn the best methods to Teach, Evaluate and Document. Come see why our FTO courses receive 100% positive reviews.
This experience is unlike any other FTO Update course. This is a modern approach to how adults like to learn (No "Death by Power Point"). Our course is taught by expert-level instructors who guarantee your FTOs will leave with a new set of skills, each one designed to help them teach and mentor a trainee or lateral officer through the FTO program.
Our instructors are practitioners, not theorists. They have a ton of experience training new officers, so students will get to see how they use the course material in the real world.
Give your FTOs the best training available, and register them today.
Here are 3 reasons that our students say FTOs need to take this course:
- Learn from current and former FTOs and FTO Supervisors. Our instructors are practitioners, not theorists.
- Learn how to diagnose a training deficiency and potentially save a struggling trainee.
- Learn modern techniques for teaching, evaluating, and documenting.
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 $99 value. We’re including them here at no additional charge for students who complete the course!
Each student should bring a laptop computer and a portable USB drive.
Eddie Chan is a current FTO Sergeant with the San Jose Police Department. He has decades of experience teaching law enforcement officers. Eddie is obsessed with delivering highly engaging courses and they are the reason why our FTO training programs are so different than the typical "Death by Power Point" courses. He will be joined for this course by Jonathan Barerra and Bethany Torres, both current FTOs who work with Eddie for the San Jose Police Department.
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.
This course is full, but occasionally spots open up due to cancellations or other reasons. To be added to the wait list please contact us. We also encourage you to check our Training Schedule to see if there are other courses coming up in your area that you might be able to attend.