Chair asks about post-academy training for vulnerable youth; DOP describes ongoing onboarding
Brooks-Powers asks what training new officers receive after the academy, including for vulnerable youth. Eusebio, Goodwin, and Ruggieri describe continuous training, borough onboarding, shadowing, refreshers, and at least 21 mandatory training hours per year.
And what training do new officers receive after graduating from the academy?
Is there any specific training related to support in vulnerable youth, for example, that's done?
I know in like PD, they have training modules that they can do, but they don't often get time to do it.
So I'm curious in terms of how probation approaches training after the academy has completed.
Sure.
I'm going to defer over to the deputy commissioner.
So probation as a practice is an ongoing, we training ongoing.
In fact, even those that have been in the job a long time know
that best practice requires that we continuously honing in our skills, whether it's motivation interviewing, whether it's stages of change, whether anything else that relates to what's best practice in the field, we constantly in that quest.
So to say that someone is fully trained, it means that we continuously look into what's going to make us do better in terms of engaging our clients so they can be on a path to meeting the goals.
What happens once they leave the academy, they are onboarded by their, each borough assistant commissioner onboards the new people.
So that means teaching them about setting goals, case management, how to supervise whatever risk they're going to receive.
They do, they have to learn how to run a rap sheet.
They have to learn e-justice.
Tina Ruggieri, Deputy Commissioner for the Operations.
As part of the onboarding, they're shadowing.
They shadow the officers, you know, once they graduate from the academy as well.
So, and as First Deputy Commissioner says, there's also refreshers, trainings throughout for the existing officers who are veterans.
So it's an ongoing training.
Thank you.
Anything else you wanted to add, Commissioner?
Well, other than the practice itself requires that everyone has X amount, we do 21 at least, mandatory 21 hours of training every year, and usually focus on the work that the person is sort of conducting out there in the field.