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The Frankenmuth Police Department takes pride in its highly trained Police Reserve Officers. The training academy and FTO program prove to be very thorough in creating highly professional and competent officers that are unique to this department.
The academy is conducted "in house" by The Frankenmuth Police Department. The program consists of approximately 120 hours of classroom and practical training conducted by certified instructors from the department. This training is provided by the department at no cost to the recruit. All courses must be completed successfully to become certified to begin patrol.
The academy is conducted during evenings and weekends over a 4 month period. The training sessions are held mostly on weekends and occasionally evenings to keep the academy managable to those in college or those practicing their current career.
There are additional trainings involved in the academy process, however, each recruit will be trained in four main core phases:
The first set of the officers patrol shifts are the FTO (Field training) phase. This consists of patrolling with several certified officer's for 40 hours of basic training on patrol tactics, use of equipment, familiarization with the city and rules and regs.
Training does not end after the academy is complete. Every month the Frankenmuth Police Department houses in service trainings which consist of felony stops, building searches, accident investigation, event patrol, crowd control and many other scenarios that officers will become involved with while on patrol.
Each officer must aslo qualify with their firearm several times per year and recertify with PPCT once a year.
Orientation, Rules & Regs, Uniform standards