Terry Baker - Captain
Grady Kirkland - Lieutenant
Warren Summers - Corporal
DeSoto, Texas
The DeSoto Police Field Training Program consists of an Administrator, two Coordinators, four Field Training Supervisors, and four Field Training Officers. The Training Program is a strenuous eighteen week training course in which new officers, who’ve completed the Police Academy, are instructed in various areas of law enforcement field application, department Standard Operating Procedures, and department Administrative Directives. The first four weeks of training are classroom based learning environments followed by fourteen weeks of street training. During the fourteen week training cycle the recruits will be trained by a different Field Training Officer during each of the three phases. After successful completion of 18 weeks of training, new officers will enter a final two week “Evaluation Phase” in which they will operate independently as patrol officers under the watchful eye of a Field Training Evaluator. Officers who pass the Evaluation Phase will be formally assigned to a Patrol Shift. A maximum of four weeks of remedial training is available for officers who fail to perform adequately during any portion of their training. In 2021, nine recruits participated in the program with seven (7) successfully completing the entire process.
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