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Focus: Officers who are experiencing problems qualifying or who exhibit
dangerous or unsafe gun handling practices.
Length:
Undetermined
This is a training program instituted
after being contacted about problem shooters within an agency. We
contract with agencies to work with their "problem shooters" as a
last-ditch opportunity to remediate their firearms problems before
being faced with terminating the officers (under "fitness for duty
theory"--if the officer cannot "qualify" with their weapon, they are
not "qualified" to be a police officer).
CUTTING EDGE TRAINING, LLC,
has also been brought in to train officers who have had
unintentional discharges (sometimes numerous over a period of
time).
This is generally a last-ditch
effort by administration to save this officer's career, or,
sometimes, to satisfy the need to prove that efforts were made on
behalf of the individual to retrain them in order to get them up to
standards. If this training does not permit them to qualify, or to
handle their weapons safely, then, frankly, that person is unsuited
to be a police officer (they have, after all, been through academy
training, on-going firearms training, remediation by your firearms
staff, and now, through professional remediation training). We
provide this training for all standard police firearms (handgun,
shotgun, rifle).
As part of this service:
- This training session is fully
documented, and a court-ready report is provided to the agency
within two weeks of completion of training.
- We also provide a detailed
remediation/training plan for the individual officer to reinforce
the lessons learned.
This training generally takes only one
to three days, depending upon the individual need of the officer.
CUTTING EDGE TRAINING
staff can remediate up to four
individuals per day on the same range. This limit permits maximum
benefit and individual training time to each individual, while also
maximizing cost benefits to the agency.
While intended as a means of retaining
an officer and permanently improving his/her firearms skills, this
training and the documentation that comes with it can also assist
your administration in proving its efforts to progressively
discipline and train an officer who is now no longer considered to
be up to standards as an officer. It shows a higher standard of
care and effort by bringing in an outside, professional trainer at
some expense to work with the officer. It can also provide just the
spark that makes the safe handling and employment of firearms
finally understandable to officers who have not responded to
training in the past, and who are perhaps deemed by your agency
trainers to be "hopeless." Ultimately, it will save your
jurisdiction arbitration, attorney, and settlement costs should an
officer who fails to qualify be disciplined or terminated.
Let us assist you in
helping to preserve your most valuable assets...
Your experienced officers!
This training can bring them up
to standards and keep them there.
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