Field Training Program Supervisor
April 7 - 9, 2025
San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's APS Auditorium
880 Oklahoma Ave.
San Luis Obispo, CA 93405
8am - 5pm
Hosted by the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office
CA POST Certified:
#1345-31715-24-002
$595.00
Looking to revamp your FTO program?
Consider this your train-the-trainer course. You’ll leave this course with a solid plan on how to begin or overhaul your Field Training Program. You’ll learn the simple concepts that will make your program successful directly from our highly experienced FTO Instructors.
This course equips law enforcement supervisors and managers with everything they need to organize and manage a Field Training Program. You’ll learn not only strategies and policy considerations but also the practical take-a-ways and tools that you can begin using immediately. Whether you are looking for a way to overhaul your program and get all your FTOs on the same page or need to know the best practices for managing a Field Training Program, this is the course for you. Our instructors are highly experienced FTO Supervisors from the San Jose Police Department in California, the birthplace of the FTO concept.
Course Curriculum Includes:
- Field Training Program Management
- Selection, Supervision and Removal of FTOs
- How to Make Your FTO’s Expert Teachers
- How to Fix a Struggling Trainee
- How to Protect Your Agency from Liability
- Field Training Software such as LEFTA
- Training and Testing Scenarios
- Crucial Topics such as Use of Force Laws, Millennial Trainees, and more
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!
Each student should bring a laptop computer and a portable USB drive.
This course satisfies the Field Training Supervisor/Administrator/Coordinator (SAC) Training Requirement as specified in the California Code of Regulation, Title 11, Section 1004.
Eddie Chan and Dom Gamboa are not only highly-experienced law enforcement professionals from Northern California, but they are also expert instructors. Eddie is a current FTO Sergeant and Dom is a former Training Unit Officer. Each have decades of experience teaching law enforcement officers. They are 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. Read more about our Field Training Supervisor Program course here.
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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