Policy Text
University of California, San Francisco
Police Department General Orders
3.32 Training: Training Academy Administration
3.32.1 Agency Relationship with Training Academy (Revised : 7/3/24 )
The UCSF Police Department does not operate a basic police recruit training academy. Police
recruits are trained at a POST -approved training academy.
A. After attending the academy, the recruit is provided with UCSF Police Department rules
and regulations and a Department Manual.
B. The Field Training Sergeant acts as a liaison between the academy and the Department
while the recruit officer is attending the training academy. The PSD Commander may
also serve as a liaison.
C. With the approval of the Chief of Police, Department personnel may serve as staff or
instructors at the academy. Only POST -certified instructors who have not been the
subject of a substantiated use of force complaint during the previous three years are
qualified to provide instruction .
D. Liability issues between the academy and UCSF Police Department will be shared as
governed by applicable State laws and University rules and regulations .