Common use of Professional Training Clause in Contracts

Professional Training. The City will see that all members of the Police Division receive professional training instruction on topics related to law enforcement. Training will be scheduled during a regular shift, most often once a month. The training sessions shall normally be for no more than a five- hour block of training and the department shall attempt to assure that officers shall be scheduled for a minimum of sixty hours of training for each calendar year. Members scheduled for training shall not be pulled from training to work patrol unless there is an emergency that exists that would justify the cancellation of training to take care of the emergency. Employees shall attempt to schedule their personal time off to make sure that they are available for the scheduled training sessions. Officers are willing to adjust their normal shift hours to accommodate these prescheduled training sessions, but not to split their shifts. This training shall not include S.O.G. Training or K-9 Training in the number of hours of professional training. The normal training day shall be the overlap Wednesday. The Chief of Police can vary from the above when it becomes necessary to provide additional training. All training will be done in accordance with guidelines set down by this Agreement. In December of each calendar year, the Chief of Police shall meet with the Employees Relations Committee to discuss annual training issues. Section 33.3. K-9 and S.O.G. Training For the purpose of continual training for the K-9 officers and their respective dogs, the officers and dogs will be entitled to one shift every other week for K-9 training. The Special Operations Group will be entitled to one (1) training shift per month. The training day may vary from week to week, month to month and will be determined by the Chief, one week in advance. The training day may be deleted in an emergency, and training hours shall not coincide with training hours scheduled in Section 33.1 or 33.2.