09-16-2016, 12:27 PM
(09-16-2016, 10:41 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: All good points. The only counter I would offer would be this; if you commit a terminatable offense during your probationary period you're pretty much 100% of the time going to be terminated.
Probably accurate, but it raises some questions.
General Question: If you just spent the money to send someone to the academy for 16 weeks, shouldn't you try to get some ROI and consider additional training such as another cycle with a FTO, additional firearms training, etc rather than just throwing the investment away, being understaffed, and losing what may have been a very good LEO over a full career?
Specific Question: If an officer is on probation, why is he the first unit responding to a call like this with no FTO, no back up, no nothing? Seems almost like he was being set up for failure. I am sure you know a lot more about this than I do, but I know enough to know some departments are well known for a high level of training and equipment, and others do not share the same reputation among LEOs I spoken with.
Side note: yesterday I saw about 2 dozen cadets observing each other as they received live instruction on how to direct traffic at an intersection in a neighboring community. I had seen this before, but it was many years ago. We all have to learn and back to the case at hand I think expecting a cop on probation to perform as well as a veteran is unrealistic. Maybe the guy in this story will hook on with another department. Maybe he wasn't cut out to be a cop, but seems to me like there was some potential there.
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