If our Agency wants to host a class for the Advanced Training Bureau,
do we receive free training for our Agency?
If you are the Host Agency, which supplies the training facility
and any other necessary supplies or equipment, and the class has the
minimum number of attendees (usually 12 paying students, but varies
with the class), the Advanced Training Bureau will give your Agency
two “free” slots in the class. If you have 15 paying
students, you can will receive three “free” slots, five “free” slots
for twenty paying students, and so on.
How does our Agency request a class from the Advanced Training Bureau.
Once your Agency determines what type of training is needed, contact
us with your request at:
We will do our utmost best to honor your request within budgetary
and time restraints. We strive to have our calendar out by the
beginning of the state fiscal year. Therefore, in order to have
your request considered for the upcoming year, the request should be
into our office no later than March 1st.
What is required of an Agency Hosting a class for the Advanced Training
Bureau?
As a Host Agency, you are responsible for obtaining a room or other
facilities needed for the class and communicating the facilities physical
address and room number with our registrar: lillian.miano@state.nm.us or
505-827-9259. It is also helpful if you send out recruitment communications
with the surrounding Agencies notifying them of the training and being
a point of contact for attendees coming from other areas of the State
for suggested Hotel/Motel rooms, restaurants and such. Lastly, it makes
the learning experience much better if the Host Agency can arrange
for water, coffee, and soda or break food/ snacks. As Officers from
around the State attend our training classes in different regions of
the State, this has almost become a competition, one community or Agency
trying to better the previous Host community or Agency in putting their
best foot forward. Think of the recruiting potential.
How does an Officer apply for an Advanced Training class?
How does the Advanced Training Bureau decide where they hold training
classes?
There are several considerations taken into account when we decide
the locations for our classes. The first is based on requests from
Agencies across the State. If an Agency requests a particular
training class, we do our best to ensure that class we be held in their
region, if not specifically in the town requested. The second consideration
is to provide at least two biennial mandated or other advanced classes
to every region of the state annually. We try to spread our training
across the state as evenly as possible. The third consideration taken
into account is the facilities needed for the class to be successful,
i.e. a dedicated driving track (EVOC), computer lab (Instructor Development
Course) Firearms Range with turning targets, 200 yard Rifle range,
50 yard Pistol Range, 100 yard Rifle/Shotgun range (Firearms Instructor
Course), an Auditorium for 200 or more attendee’s for lecture
based topics (Lt. Col. David Grossman’s Bullet Proof Mind)’ secure
areas for Force on Force training (Officer Survival) are all examples.
The fourth consideration is the accessibility; we want to make sure
smaller communities and Agencies are represented in this training site
selection equation. About 60% of the Law Enforcement Agencies
in our State have 20 Officers or less, so their fiscal budgets are
far less than the remaining 40% of the Agencies. There are several
other considerations when making these decisions, if you have more
questions about this process, please do not hesitate to contact: brian.coss@state.nm.us or
505-827-9275 or markr.shea@state.nm.us or
505-827-9271.
How can I get a copy of the DPS lesson plans and PowerPoint presentations?
We are hoping to have many of the NMDPS lesson plans posted on our
web site at some point, but until then; If you are in need of a “Basic” training
lesson plan or curriculum, you can contact the Basic Bureau Chief at
505-827-9271 or erica.esquibel@state.nm.us or
505-827-9625. If you are in need of an “Advanced” training
lesson plan or curriculum, you can contact: brian.coss@state.nm.us or
505-827-9275 or markr.shea@state.nm.us or
505-827-9271.
How can our Agency participate in the Video training program?
This is a free decentralized training program offered by our Bureau
and all that is required, is to pick a (one at a time) training subject
from the list of courses we have and request the course from brian.coss@state.nm.us or
505-827-9275. The current courses we offer are:
Cops & Ethics
Dealing with the Media
Rapid Response to the Active Shooter
High Speed Pursuit
Shoot out at Harrah's
Murder of a Georgia Deputy
Each course comes with a class roster, facilitators guide, (so no
instructor is necessary) a pre-test & post-test, lesson plan
and evaluation and these courses are NMDPS accredited for three hours
of training. As these are original VHS tapes, we only have one tape
for each program, which requires the requesting Agency to have a
rather rapid turn around of the program (two weeks or less) so the
programs will be available to other Agencies. After the program has
been completed, simply return the completed class roster, tape, pre-tests,
post-tests and evaluations to us. The test will then be graded, and
if the student scores a 70% or higher on the post-test, a course
completion certificate will be mailed out to the student at the address
listed on the class roster.
