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Ithaca police brief Community Police Board on training, policy reviews and officer development
Summary
Department officials told the Ithaca Community Police Board they are expanding training, revising policies with outside experts and maintaining lengthy field training, and outlined plans to post updated policies online and release an annual training report.
Ithaca — Department representatives briefed the Ithaca Community Police Board on a package of policy and training updates, staffing changes and plans to make some materials available online.
The board heard that the department is working with a policy vendor and national organizations to adapt templates to New York State law, is expanding field training beyond the state minimum and is formalizing review processes for major policies such as officer-involved-shooting protocols.
The Operations Sergeant (unnamed) said the department requires substantially more on-the-job training than the state minimum. “So we give 600 hours of training to our newly graduated police academy officers before we give a final evaluation that says,…
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