Law Enforcement Train the Trainer Letdanys Conference

LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAIN THE TRAINER – LETDANYS CONFERENCE

OCTOBER 1-2, 2014

18 attendants, 16 evaluations

1. Do you feel you are adequately prepared to train firefighter/EMS personnel on proper response to people with disabilities?
a. I feel very prepared to present – xii
b. I feel somewhat prepared to present –iiii
c. I will need more guidance to be adequately prepared – i
d. I do not feel I am adequately prepared –

2. What topics, if any, do you need more information or guidance on to confidently conduct training?

I will need general review of the manual to be proficient.
Program covered all my concerns for now.
Dispatcher/calltaker when dealing with incoming calls for service and dispatching the call
I will research and use the resources provided by this class to fully prepare myself prior to instructing
I will need to conduct more subject matter study to reach a level of competence to present adequately

3. What part of today’s training was most significant (or stood out) to you?

Learning disabilities
Sections on ID and TBI. They seem to be very prevalent in our community.
The entire program was effective and interesting. Videos are excellent. A lot of critical information. Instructor was energetic and passionate about the topic.
Tourette Syndrome, TBI
Situations at the end of the training sessions
Dementia
How many disabilities police may encounter and how to handle them. Being aware.
Several that are close to home
ALL is significant – but learning how the disabilities present themselves stood out
That disability awareness should be expanded in recruit/supervisory mandated curriculum
The videos
ALL
Seizures
Officer engagements with disabled members of their communities

4. Do you plan on using the videos?

a. Yes, all of them – xii
b. Yes, most of them – iiii
c. Yes, some of them –
d. No, none of them –

5. If you answered (b) or (c), which videos are you most likely to use?

The section review as well as the wheelchair search/custody videos.
TBI
Videos of people with disabilities – also reenactment (Monroe County)
Need to examine them more…

6. Will you provide copies of the handouts at your presentations?

a. Yes, all of them – xi

b. Yes, most of them – iiii

c. Yes, some of them – i

d. No, none of them –

7. If you answered (b) or (c), which handouts are you most likely to use?

-Undetermined now.

-Disability descriptions/first responder guides and fact sheets

-News articles and information

-Need further examination to determine which handouts would be helpful to a particular class

8. Would you recommend this training to others? Yes xv

9. When, and where, do you plan on conducting training?

Police – annual in-service
In-service – hopefully with assistance from our disabilities resource center
Jefferson County
SUNY Delhi – depending on college spring schedule and demands from area departments
In-service
Command security academy. Possible at Zone 5 in-service.
Yonkers Police in-service training
During in-service
JCSO – when? Like all law enforcement and correctional divisions have this training
In Orange County (or elsewhere if requested) in-service etc.
I plan on advocating to make this “mandated” training for recruit training – expand from 2 to 8 hours
Basic academy and in-service
In-service training and academy
In-service to my agency sometime in the next 3 months

10. Please provide the contact information of any departments and/or persons that you feel would be interested in this program:

- Lt David Shannon and Officer Lenny Nolan – Fort Drum PD

- I believe the DCJS should propose inclusion of 8 hr block in the basic police recruit school to MPTC

- Andrew Zell, Kingston PD 943-5712

- Southern Tier LEA Howard Davis –

Other comments:

-Would be helpful to make videos go full screen when played

-Great job by Mr. Whalen!

-Great job!!! Excellent manual and training materials

-Dave is an excellent instructor. Extremely knowledgeable and passionate about the topics. Well done.