THORNTON POLICE DEPARTMENT



Session 1 – Orientation – Tuesday, August 20, 2013 Week 1

|Time |Instructors |Topics Covered |Areas |Class Participation |

|6:30 p.m. –8:00 p.m. |Academy Staff |Academy Overview |Introduction of Staff | |

| | | |Class Introduction | |

| | | |Curriculum | |

| | |POLICE DEPARTMENT TRAINING ROOM |Completion of Forms | |

| | | |Ride-A-Long Program | |

| | | |Identification Badges | |

|8:00 p.m. –9:30 p.m. |Academy Staff |Department Tour |Physical view and explanation of department |Tour |

| | | |facilities |Class discussion |

| | |POLICE DEPARTMENT TRAINING ROOM | |Class discussion |

| | | | |Overhead |

Session 2 – Wednesday, August 21, 2013 Week 1

|Time |Instructors |Topics Covered |Areas |Class Participation |

|6:30 p.m. –7:30 p.m. |Chief Nelson |Welcome |Department’s Mission and Vision Statements |Student Introduction |

| | | |Department’s Core Values | |

| | | |Department Strategic Priorities | |

| | | |Organizational Structure | |

|7:40 p.m. –8:00 p.m. |Deputy Chief Reather |Administration Division |General Overview | |

|8:00 p.m. – 8:20 p.m. |Deputy Chief Manka |Detective Division |General Overview | |

|8:30 p.m. – |Deputy Chief Cross |Patrol Division |General Overview | |

|8:50 p.m. | | | | |

|8:50 p.m.- 9:20 p.m. |Communications Center Manager |Communication Center |General Overview | |

| |Shear | | | |

Session 3 – Wednesday, August 28, 2013 Week 2

|Time |Instructors |Topics Covered |Areas |Class Participation |

|6:30 p.m. –7:15 p.m. |Cmdr. Zabroski |Professional Standards |Code of Conduct |Class discussion |

| | | |Administrative vs. Criminal | |

| | |POLICE DEPARTMENT |Complaint Process | |

| | |TRAINING ROOM |Supervisory Review | |

| | | |Formal vs. Informal | |

|7:15 p.m. – 8:15 p.m. |Cmdr. Zabroski/Kandt/ |Hiring Process |DRCOG |Class Discussion |

| |Atkins | |Selection Steps | |

| | |POLICE DEPARTMENT |Recruitment | |

| | |TRAINING ROOM |Career Days | |

| | | |Community College Academy | |

|8:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. |Cmdr. Vitgenos and FTO Wilson |Field Training Officer (FTO) Program |FTOs |Class Discussion |

| | | |Training | |

Session 4 – Wednesday, September 4, 2013 Week 3

|Time |Instructors |Topics Covered |Areas |Class Participation |

|6:30 p.m. – |Comm. Center |Communications Center |The Communications Center (Dispatch) function and | |

|7:00 p.m. |Mgr. S. Shear | |responsibility as part of the police and fire | |

| | | |operations. | |

|7:00 p.m. –9:30 p.m. | |Criminal Law |What actions constitute a criminal act? |Sample situation, class discussion and |

| |Det. D. Parker/ TBD/Dan Smith | |Discussion of probable cause. Miranda and arrest |role-play exercises. |

| | |POLICE DEPARTMENT |procedures. | |

| | |TRAINING ROOM |Discretion. | |

Session 5 – Wednesday, September 11, 2013 Week 4

|Time |Instructors |Topics Covered |Areas |Class Participation |

|6:15 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. |CSI Young |CLASS PHOTOGRAPH | | |

| | |**WITH POLO SHIRTS** | | |

|6:30 p.m. –7:30 p.m. |Cmdr. Carbone |Use of Force |Laws and Policy |Class discussion |

| | | |Force Continuum |Overhead of Use-of Force Continuum. |

| | |POLICE DEPARTMENT TRAINING ROOM |Department Philosophy | |

| | | |Training | |

|7:30 p.m. –9:30 p.m. |Cmdr. Carbone |Police Service Dog Unit |Law |Demonstration, information and |

| |Ofc. B. Twinem | |Policy |discussion on the use of police service |

| |K-9 Spike | |Training |dogs – K-9. |

| |Officer Potter | |Equipment | |

| |K-9 Nero |POLICE DEPARTMENT TRAINING ROOM |Selection of handler and animal | |

Session 6 – Wednesday, September 18, 2013 Week 5

|Time |Instructors |Topics Covered |Areas |Class Participation |

|6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. |Sgt. Lewis and Traffic Staff |Traffic Enforcement |Objectives of Traffic Enforcement |Class discussion |

| | | |Directive Patrols | |

| | | |Saturation Patrols | |

| | | |Check Points | |

|7:30 p.m. – |Sgt. Cabot and |Drunk drivers |DUIs and statistics |Class discussion followed by student |

|9:30 p.m. |Traffic Staff | | |participation on roadside maneuvers, |

| | | |Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) |Nystagmus and the intoxylizer using |

| | | |Nystagmus |volunteer officers who are our control |

| | |*Volunteer drinking team need to begin their activity| |group drinkers. |

| | |by 6:00 p.m. |Roadside maneuvers | |

| | | |Intoxylizer | |

Session 7 - Saturday, September 21, 2013 Week 5

|Time |Instructors |Topics Covered |Areas |Class Participation |

|9:00 a.m. –5:00 p.m. |Cmdr. Carbone |EVOC (Emergency Vehicle Operations Course) |Law |Demonstration and student participation |

| |EVOC Staff | |Policy |in driving a police patrol vehicle. |

| |Sgt. P. Hawkins | |Driving | |

| |Sgt. M. Cabot | |Vehicle Dynamics | |

| |Staff |LOCATION TBD | | |

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Session 8 – Wednesday, September 25, 2013 Week 6

|Time |Instructors |Topics Covered |Areas |Class Participation |

|6:30 p.m. –8:00 p.m. |CSI Doug Young |Crime Scene Processing |Evidence Identification and collection |Class discussion |

| | | | | |

| | |POLICE DEPARTMENT |Viewing of crime scenes (video or slides) | |

| | |TRAINING ROOM | | |

|8:00 p.m. –9:30 p.m. |Det. Barkley/Beary |Computerized Voice Stress Analysis (CVSA) | |Class demonstration |

Session 9 – Wednesday, October 2, 2013 Week 7

|Time |Instructors |Topics Covered |Areas |Class Participation |

|6:30 p.m. –7:30 p.m. |CERT |Crime Enforcement Response Team (CERT) |Mission | |

| |Sean Shelley | |Strategy | |

| |Bill Gaskins | |Structure | |

|7:30 p.m. –9:30 p.m. |Sgt. Long |Criminal Investigation |Methods of Investigation |Discussion on investigation techniques |

| | | |Case load |and evidence |

| | |DETECTIVE DIVISION |Case management | |

| | |TRAINING ROOM |Clearance | |

| | | |Value of evidence | |

Session 10 – Saturday, October 5, 2013 Week 7

|Time |Instructors |Topics Covered |Areas |Class Participation |

|9:00 a.m. –3:00 p.m. |Cmdr. Bella |Basic weapons orientation and safety. |Pistol |Firing weapons at the range on a voluntary basis |

| |Range Staff | |870 Shotgun (Lethal) |Students instructed in firearms and allowed to fire |

| | |(Longmont/Boulder County Range) |870 Shotgun (Less-Lethal) |rounds at the range. |

| | | |.223mm Carbine |5 Pistol rounds each |

| | |* Brown Bag Lunch * |Safety Lecture |5 Carbine rounds each |

| | | |Home Safety |2 shotgun rounds each |

| | |While ½ of the class goes through weapons orientation|Range Rules |2 shotgun beanbag rounds each. |

| | |on the live range, the other ½ of the class will | |Students will be grouped in teams of four. Each |

| | |attend FATS. Groups will switch during the noon | |student in the group will be assigned their own range|

| | |break. | |safety officers. |

| | | | | |

| | |Firearms Training System (FATS) | |Hands on scenario based training. Each student will |

| | | | |have approximately 20 minutes to go through the |

| | | | |various decision making exercises. |

| | | |Judgmental Training Simulator | |

Session 11 – Wednesday, October 9, 2013 Week 8

|Time |Instructors |Topics Covered |Areas |Class Participation |

|6:30 p.m. –7:45 p.m. |Sgt. Vermilye |Watch philosophy and watch structure |Watch briefings |Class discussion |

| |Sgt. Hendrixson | |Incident debriefings | |

| | |PATROL DIVISION WATCH BRIEFING ROOM |District assignments | |

| | | |District configuration | |

| | | |Field deployment equipment | |

| | | |Patrol watches | |

|8:00 p.m. – 8:45 p.m. |Team Ldr. Wilson |Building search |Officer safety concerns |Class discussion, followed by practical |

| |and SWAT Staff | |Search techniques |scenario exercises during session #12 |

|8:45 p.m. –9:30 p.m. |Ofc. Avila |Vehicle stops |Probable cause for the stop Routine vehicle stops |Class discussion followed by practical |

| |Sgt Boal | |High-risk vehicle stops |scenario exercises during session #12 |

|Time |Instructors |Topics Covered |Areas |Class Participation |

|6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. |Cmdr. Peters |Dangerous Drugs |North Metro Task Force |Class discussion, view of various drugs |

| |Sgt. Gerhardt | |Drug problems in Thornton and their relationship to |and paraphernalia display. |

| | |POLICE DEPARTMENT TRAINING ROOM |other crimes. | |

Session 12 – Wednesday, October 16, 2013 Week 9

Session 13 – Saturday, October 19, 2013 Week 9

|Time |Instructors |Topics Covered |Areas |Class Participation |

|9:00 a.m. –2:00 p.m. |Cmdr. Vitgenos/ Officer Dan |Vehicle Stops |High-Risk Stops |Students will participate in active |

| |Wilson and SWAT Staff |Building Search |Tactics and techniques |decision making scenarios, which will |

| | | | |include the use of paint ball weapons |

| |Ofc. Avila |Location TBA | |and safety equipment. Each scenario will|

| |Sgt. Boal | | |be followed up by a debriefing and group|

| |Ofc Cline |Lunch Provided (Alumni) | |discussion. One half of the students |

| | | | |will participate in building search |

| | | | |while the other half is involved in |

| | | | |vehicle stop exercises. The groups will|

| | | | |then rotate. |

Session 14 – Wednesday, October 23, 2013 Week 10

|Time |Instructors |Topics Covered |Areas |Class Participation |

|6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. |Ofc. Lucero |Gangs & Taggers |Problems and issues regarding youth in these |Class discussion, gang and tagger |

| | | |activities and the impact on our community. |paraphernalia display. |

| | |POLICE DEPARTMENT TRAINING ROOM | | |

|7:30 p.m. –9:30 p.m. |Ofc. Marting |New Street Drugs | |Class discussion |

| | | | |New Street Drugs Display |

Session 15 – Wednesday, October 30, 2013 Week 11

|Time |Instructors |Topics Covered |Areas |Class Participation |

|6:30 p.m. –7:45 p.m. |Cmdr.Brown |Youth Services Unit |SRO, The Link, Youth Diversion Program, Hooked on |Class discussion |

| |Sgt. Evans | |Fishing | |

| | |Fire Station 5 | | |

|8:00 p.m. – |Deborah Dunbar |Victim Advocate Program |Psychology and emotional aspects involving victims |Class discussion |

|8:30 p.m. |VA Staff | |and the police | |

|8:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. |Det. Beary |Senior Liaison |General Overview |Class discussion |

|9:00 p.m. –9:30 p.m. |Ofc. Barnes |Crime Prevention Unit |Program overview |Class discussion |

Session 16 – Wednesday, November 6, 2012 Week 12

|Time |Instructors |Topics Covered |Areas |Class Participation |

|6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. |Cmdr. Vitgenos/Officer Dan |Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) |Why SWAT and what is it? |Class discussion |

| |Wilson and SWAT Staff | |Joint team and structure |Static display of SWAT equipment and |

| | |POLICE DEPARTMENT TRAINING ROOM |History |weapon systems. |

| | | |Our training and selection process. | |

|8:10 p.m. –9:30 p.m. |Cmdr.. Vitgenos/Sgt..Boal and |Crisis Negotiation Unit (CNU) |What is CNU? |Class discussion and display of |

| |CNU Staff | |How does SWAT/CNU work together? |equipment. |

| | | |CNU training and selection process. | |

Session 17 – Saturday, November 09, 2013 Week 12

|Time |Instructors |Topics Covered |Areas |Class Participation |

|10:00 a.m. –2:00 p.m. |Sgt. Vermilye/Orcutt/ |Arrest Control |Control maneuvers |Demonstration followed by student |

| |Boal/Hendrixson and DT staff | |Arrest Control |participation in basic arrest control |

| | |Defensive Tactics and Tools |Handcuffing |techniques, handcuffing and tool use. |

| | | |Tools Used | |

| | |Taser |PR-24 | |

| | | |OPN | |

| | |POLICE DEPARTMENT TRAINING ROOM |OC | |

| | | |Handcuffs | |

| | | |Flex Cuffs | |

| | | |Kick Stop Restraint |Information and demonstration on the |

| | | |Restraint Chair |Taser. |

| | | |Empty Hands | |

| | | |Fist Suit | |

| | | |Red Man Suit | |

| | | |Red Guns | |

| | | |Taser | |

Session 18 – Wednesday, November 13, 2013 Week 13

|Time |Instructors |Topics Covered |Areas |Class Participation |

|6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. |Dr. Nicolletti |Police Psychology |What officers experience…suicide, SIDS, homicide, |Class discussion |

| |And Staff | |traffic accidents, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder | |

| | |POLICE DEPARTMENT TRAINING ROOM | | |

|8:10 p.m. -9:00 p.m. |Det. M. Hawkins |Life on the Street |A day in the life of a police officer – rewards – |Class discussion |

| |Sgt. P. Hawkins | |concerns – family | |

|9:00 p.m. – |TPD Alumni |Citizen’s Academy Alumni |What is an alumni? |Class discussion |

|9:30 p.m. |Ms. Wendy Miller & Staff | |What is the function of an alumni? | |

| | | |How do I join the alumni? | |

|9:30 p.m. – |Academy Staff |Academy Critique |Oral review of Citizen’s Academy Class 2008 by |Class discussion |

|10:00 p.m. | | |students and staff | |

Session 19 – Monday, November 18, 2013 Week 14

|Time |Instructors |Topics Covered |Areas |Class Participation |

|6:30 p.m. -8:00 p.m. |Chief Nelson |Graduation Ceremony |Color Guard/Pipes & Drum |Presentation of certificates and |

| |Deputy Chiefs | |Certificates |mementos by the Chief, gathering with a |

| |and C.A. Staff | |Open house with academy staff, alumni and |pot luck dinner. |

| | |Margaret Carpenter Rec Center |instructors, CMO staff and graduate family members. | |

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| | | |Reception | |

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