21st-quarterly-report.pdf

Twenty-First Quarterly Report of the Independent Monitor for the Oakland Police Department May 4, 2015 Page 74 progress report; and at the end of each four-week cycle, the FTO prepares an end-of-phase report. Trainee officers anonymously evaluate their FTOs at the end of each phase. Trainees are provided evaluations of their performance throughout the program. FTOs do not receive individual evaluation forms but do receive feedback regarding their performance. The evaluation forms are reviewed by the FTP Coordinator, commander, and supervisor; and filed in the FTO Coordinator’s office. OPD is in compliance with these subtasks. Task 42.8 requires that the Field Training Program Coordinator, or his/her designee, conduct random audits of the FTO program to ensure that FTOs complete daily evaluations of trainee officers (compliance standard: Yes/No). FTOs complete a daily evaluation of the trainees; and the FTO Program Coordinator receives, reviews, audits, and files all evaluation forms. In addition, the program maintains a color-coded spreadsheet to ensure that all necessary documentation is received, reviewed, and filed. OPD is in compliance with this subtask. Task 42.9 requires that when a trainee officer’s FTO is absent, the trainee officer is not assigned to field duties with an “acting” FTO, but is placed with another certified FTO, or assigned to non-field duties, pending the availability of a certified FTO (compliance standard: 95%). If a trainee’s FTO is unavailable, the trainee is assigned to another FTO. If no FTO is available, the trainee is assigned to a sergeant or non-patrol assignment. No incident in which a trainee was assigned to a non-FTO has occurred for the past year. OPD is in compliance with this subtask. Task 42.10 requires that Field Commanders and FTO Supervisors be provided training (compliance standard: 95%). All sergeants and commanders to whom FTOs would be assigned were trained by the program in both group and individual sessions before they were assigned FTO duties. The FTP coordinator met with the Deputy Chief and area commanders on April 3, 2014, and provided an overview of the FTO Program. OPD is in compliance with this subtask. Task 42.11 requires that a total of three focus groups are conducted by the Field Training Program Coordinator and Academy staff, with randomly selected trainee officers for each group of trainee officers in the FTO Program. The first is conducted midway through the field-training cycle, the second upon completion of field training, and the last six months after completion of the field training program (compliance standard: Yes/No). The coordinator conducts focus groups with randomly selected trainees, as required by the NSA. The focus group is designed to elicit issues encountered in the program and ensure that inconsistencies in training are identified and rectified. Since our last review the FTO Coordinator has held three focus groups. On October 9, 2014, the FTO Unit conducted the second focus group for the trainees in the 169th Academy. On November 4, 2014 the third focus group was held for the POST 3 Transitional Academy.