Responsibilities

• Provides in-service training for 192 Department employees
• Designs training programs and provides instruction
• Responsible for all travel arrangements for out of town training assignments
• Administers grant programs 
• Acts as liaison with the Macomb Police Academy

 Statistics

• Provided over 21,000 hours of total training time for all Department members
• Presented 14 Homeland Security training sessions dealing with terrorism prevention
• Hosted 10 specialty classes for Department personnel including
  • FBI Hostage Negotiation
  • High Impact Police Leadership 
  • Advanced Traffic Investigation 
  • Internet Investigations class
• Developed and presented 40 hours of mandatory  recertification training classes to all sworn and non-sworn personnel in the following areas
  • Emergency Vehicle Operations
  • Defensive Tactics
  • Taser Use
  • Legal Updates
  • First Aid
  • CPR
  • Cultural Diversity
  • Ethical Decision Making
• Developed and presented 24 Intranet (E-based) training sessions for all Department members occurring every two weeks throughout the year
• Provided monthly firearms training sessions for all sworn personnel 
• Developed and hosted quarterly Michigan police trainers meetings to establish a training “network” with law enforcement professionals

The Training Section is supervised by Sergeant Michael Bjork.

The Training Section includes Training Officer Craig Fitzpatrick and Secretary Lynn McDaniel