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 Unit is supervised by Sergeant Don Ostrowski

The Training Section includes Training Officer Craig Fitzpatrick and Officer Steven Zagacki and Administrative Aide Paula Bratto