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Seventeenth Quarterly Report of the Independent Monitor
for the Oakland Police Department
April 28, 2014
Page 73
priority for selection as training) as incentives for participation. No changes to the incentives for
participation in the FTO Program have occurred during the current reporting period. OPD is in
compliance with this subtask.
Task 42.4.1 requires that field supervisors and commanders nominate FTO candidates
(compliance standard: 90%), and the Chief of Police determines FTO assignments and retention
(compliance standard: Yes/No); Task 42.4.2 requires that FTO candidates complete three years
of service before selection, unless authorized by the Chief (compliance standard: Yes/No); Task
42.4.3 requires that FTO candidates are required to demonstrate commitment to community
policing and problem solving and leadership abilities (compliance standard: 95%); Task 42.4.4
requires that ethics, professionalism, relationships with the community, quality of citizen
contacts and commitment to OPD philosophy are primary criteria in the selection of FTOs
(compliance standard: 95%); and Task 42.4.5 requires that candidates with excessive numbers
of citizen complaints, sustained investigations or excessive numbers of use of force incidents are
barred from selection as an FTO for no less than two years (compliance standard: 95%).
Supervisors and commanders recommend candidates, who must have work and performance
records as required by this section. FTOs are screened for commitment to community policing
and candidates with excessive numbers of complaints and/or sustained instances of uses of force
are not selected. The selection of all FTOs to be certified (newly selected FTOs) and those to be
recertified (FTO previously selected and decertified when new officers were not being hired)
followed the requirements outlined in the NSA. As noted above, the screening of the 23 new
candidates – 16 of which have been added to the FTO Program – has been completed. OPD is in
compliance with these subtasks.
Task 42.5 requires that FTOs be decertified following sustained disciplinary action for serious
misconduct specified (compliance standard: Yes/No). During the current reporting period, one
officer was decertified for sustained Class 1 violation. The FTO Program Coordinator identified
this officer in his monthly review of IAD sustained findings, and removed the officer from the
FTO Program. Another officer was decertified because he was transferred to criminal
investigative duties. OPD is in compliance with this subtask.
Task 42.6 requires that assignment to a FTO position is contingent upon successful completion
of a training course for the position (compliance standard: Yes/No). FTOs are not assigned until
they have successfully completed program training. OPD is in compliance with this subtask.
Task 42.7.1requires that at the end of a complete FTO cycle, trainee officers anonymously
evaluate each of their FTOs (compliance standard: 95%); Task 42.7.2requires that FTO
evaluation forms are reviewed by the Program Coordinator and the FTO’s commander and
supervisor (compliance standard: 95%); Task 42.7.3requires that the Field Training Program
Coordinator provides evaluation information to the FTOs as a group, concerning program
effectiveness (compliance standard: Yes/No); Task 42.7.4requires that each FTO is provided
with evaluation information regarding his/her individual performance (compliance standard:
Yes/No); and Task 42.7.5requires that individual evaluation forms are not made available to
individual FTOs in the interest of maintaining anonymity of trainee officers who have completed
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