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Seventeenth Quarterly Report of the Independent Monitor for the Oakland Police Department April 28, 2014 Page 74 the forms (compliance standard: Yes/No). Trainees are evaluated by their FTOs on a daily basis beginning with their second week of field assignment. The patrol sergeant prepares a weekly 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. OPD is in compliance with this subtask. Task 42.9requires 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. In the past there have been situations in which the FTO Coordinator discovered that a trainee officer had been assigned for a brief period to work with an officer who had not been approved as an FTO by the Chief. The FTO Coordinator moved quickly to ensure that the trainee was reassigned to an approved FTO and that the supervisors and commanders were aware of the requirement that trainees can only work with Department-certified FTOs. No such incident occurred during the third or fourth quarters of 2013. 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. OPD is in compliance with this subtask. Task42.11 requires that focus groups are conducted by the Field Training Program Coordinator and Academy staff with randomly selected trainee officers midway through the field-training cycle, upon completion of field training, and 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. During December 2013, the FTO Unit conducted focus groups for the trainees in the 166th Academy, the second focus group sessions, and for the 167th Academy, the first focus group sessions. OPD is in compliance with this subtask. Task 42.12requires that the results of the focus group sessions be reviewed at a meeting to include the Training Section Commander, the FTO Program Coordinator, the BFO Deputy Case3:00-cv-04599-TEH Document979 Filed04/28/14 Page75 of 88