Policy Text
KCSO Field Training Officer Guide
Revised September 2019
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INTRODUCTION
Congratulations on being accepted into the field training program. In order to be
accepted into this training program, you will have passed a POST academy. As you
know, the training in the academy was arduous and demanding. High standards were set
and you were expected to meet them on a daily basis. Those standards were intentionally
high because this is a demanding profession. Society places a tremendous amount of
authority and trust in its sheriff’s deputies. It is for this reason that law enforcement
training is demanding and strenuous.
The basic academy is tasked with ensuring that only those persons with the prerequisite
skills, intelligence and temperament graduate from the academy and move on to a field
training assignment. Your academy experience equipped you with the basic knowledge
and skills required to enter a field training program.
The academy is the first major component o