Your Field Training Officers (FTOs) play a critical role in shaping the future of your department. This course is designed to equip them with advanced communication, teaching, and documentation skills to ensure they deliver exceptional training. By honing their abilities, we can reduce liability risks and cultivate a stronger, more professional force.
Course Details
Topics
- Understanding personality and overcoming conflicts
- The Character Flaws That Cause Liability
- Adult Learning Concepts
- The roles of a Trainer
- Leadership concepts
- Training mistakes
- Review of typical trainee deficiencies along with training techniques crafted to fix each specific problem
Instructor – Captain Rob Fanelli RET
Captain Rob Fanelli has over 21 years of experience as a law enforcement professional, with an emphasis on police organizational structure, criminal investigation, Field Training, and communication. He served as a Field Training Officer for seven years, a Field Training Sergeant for five years, and was an active board member of the FTO committee as a Lieutenant. He retired from the Gainesville Police Department in 2023. In 2024 he attended and completed a police academy and went on to complete an FTO program as an officer. He now works as a patrol officer in Colorado. He has experience writing and developing department policy including an FTO Manual. He is the founder and first president of the Southeastern Field Training Officer Association. He has a B.A. Degree in Criminology from the University of Florida and an MBA from Saint. Leo University. He is currently a Fellow at Johns Hopkins University.
