Field Training Officer Update
December 1 - 3, 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:
#1345-31715-25-001
$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.
Your Instructors:
Senior Instructor Eddie Chan is a current sergeant with the San Jose Police Department in California. Eddie has over 30 years of experience and spent over 14 years as a supervisor in the FTO Program. Eddie has participated in the training of hundreds of trainees and FTOs. Dozens of Eddie’s past recruits and FTOs went on to become Sergeants and command officers. He oversees all of Savage Training Group’s FTO training programs. More about Eddie
Garrett Slonicker is a current Field Training Officer with the San Jose Police Department. He has been a police officer since 2013 and his previous assignments include the Undercover Narcotics Enforcement Unit and being an academy instructor. More about Garrett
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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