How much driver training have you received after the Academy?

[LCPLPunk]

Howdy,

With all the Officer injuries/deaths I have seen posted from vehicle accidents, I was curious to see how much driver training you have received AFTER the academy. I have heard this is often an overlooked skill, so I wanted to see if agencies have taken note and added additional time for training.

Please post what you've done and what agency/state you are from.

Thanks in advance!

[AlabamaCop]

One eight hour class and one four hour class each year. The four hour class is mostly classroom stuff and the eight hour is mostly doing driving courses. We've also done pursuit training and trained in boxing people in. Spike strips are also part of the pursuit course.

[Desert DPS]

One eight hour course a year. This includes a little bit of classroom stuff but the rest is driving.

[xdrcx]

Ill give the class...

Wear your seatbelt!!

Class dismissed

[deputy x 2]

Ill give the class...

Wear your seatbelt!!

Class dismissed

Don't get tunnel vision.

Don't get sucked in.

Don't drive above your abilities.

[ask80]

and use common sense ( like not driving too fast in nasty weather conditions)..

i only had 2 days of EVOC training at SBSO... and it was pouring too.. so i guess the training was a lil tougher

[e-man]

I had my 40 hr course during the acaddemy and get retrained every single shift. I drive ebtween 60 and 90 miles a shift and wear my seatbelt.
Good enough. Its the law of averages, the more one drives the more chance he has of crashing. Just minimizing the injury and departmental screwing and its all good.....Wear your seatbelt and slow down a few MPHs

[School Cop]

NONE since the academy - unless you count floorin' it when I leave the jail and seeing if my bucket of bolts hits 100 before the bend in the road.

I wish we did get some; then again, I work in a school and am still waiting to be sent to active shooter school.

[ask80]

how many of you guys, just curious, actually wear the seat belts all the time? i know guys that don't cuz if SHTF , it's one less thing they have to worry about.

[School Cop]

how many of you guys, just curious, actually wear the seat belts all the time? i know guys that don't cuz if SHTF , it's one less thing they have to worry about.

I do, although on a hot call, I generally get en route and put it on when I get a chance. If I have to turn on a speeder, I would rather not throw myself into the passenger seat.

If you don't wear your belt, every time, here's my question for you:
How often do you hit the streets with an unloaded gun? You hardly ever have needed one.

[AlabamaCop]

I always wear mine. I can't stand not wearing it. Sometimes I'll take it off when I'm about to get to a hot call, but that's it.

[deputy x 2]

I always wear mine. I can't stand not wearing it. Sometimes I'll take it off when I'm about to get to a hot call, but that's it.

I wear mine enroute to ALL calls. It is a habit to unclick about a block before I arrive. (I even do it in my POV)

[gopherpuckfan]

I wear mine enroute to ALL calls. It is a habit to unclick about a block before I arrive. (I even do it in my POV)

Same here. I'll also take it off if I'm driving through parking lots or side streets.

[lionheart45]

Tons in the academy, zero after.

[Taylor1430]

Had quite a bit back in the academy days but we receive no additional training...unless we have 3 accidents within a certain period of time. If that happens, the send us back up to EVOC. This includes accidents that are not your fault. One officer on my platoon has been rearended multiple times while stopped at traffic lights...and off to EVOC he went.

As for seatbelts, I always where mine. The only time I generally take it off while driving is just prior to entering one of our many public housing communities.