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Negotiated Settlement Agreement, Combined Tenth and Eleventh Semi-Annual Report December 2008 ACADEMY AND IN-SERVICE TRAINING Task 43: Academy Training Plan ¢ Settlement Agreement Section [X.; page 37, line 5 — page 38, line 19 e Assigned Unit: BOS Settlement Agreement Language “By February 15, 2005, OPD must develop and implement a plan to enhance its Academy and in-service training to ensure that OPD personnel at all levels are adequately trained for their positions, and are aware of and able to implement the most contemporary developments in police training. The Settlement Agreement sets forth criteria that must be contained in this enhanced Academy and in-service training plan and parameters for the frequency and documentation of in- service training. In addition, this provision sets new training criteria for sergeants and command staff.” Status: In Policy, Training, and Partial Practice Compliance Compliance Date: February 15, 2005 Deliverables Revised Departmental General Order B-20, Departmental Training Procedures IMT Audit Summary The IMT audit found the Department in partial compliance with the requirements of Task 43. During the tenth reporting period, many of the compliance standards for this task had been lowered from 95% to 90% or modified to include a more subjective pass/fail assessment. In addition to Task 43’s requirements related to Academy training, Task 43 requires that OPD provide all supervisors and commanders/managers with mandatory 40-hour in-service supervisory and leadership training. The Settlement Agreement stipulates specific areas that must be covered in this training, including instruction in supervisory and command accountability, ethics and professionalism, and supervisory and management functions and situations. Pursuant to this task, all supervisors must receive the mandatory leadership training prior to their promotion while all commanders must attend this training within six months of their promotion. The IMT completed an audit of this task during the current reporting period, finding that OPD was in compliance with most of Task 43, including requirements that: 1. OPD implement a training plan that includes elements required by the Settlement Agreement (43.1). 2. OPD training include additional emphasis on ethics and professionalism, critical thinking and problem-solving, conflict resolution, and relationships with the community (43.1.2). 3. OPD consult with at least four other large law-enforcement agencies that have excellent reputations for professionalism regarding the areas listed above in number two (43.1.4). 4. OPD expand professionalism in all aspects of training (recruit academy, in-service training, and field training), using realistic scenario-based training exercises (43.2). 74