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We have historically done a Sergeant’s Academy for everyone that passed the sergeant’s exam. This year we did a Leadership Academy and civilians were permitted to attend as there were additional class offerings that were not specific to LE.
City of Gainesville was 20 and out and changed to 25 and then to 30. I attached their pension information document.
UF has a recommendation of one “crowd manager” for every 250 folks. The PD uses that # if a more contentious or higher energy event. If expecting it to be extremely low key, the # is one officer per 600 attendees.
Tiffany Castle
UFPDOur pre-read doesn’t really highlight the dispatch center, but this could be a start. It was created in Canva.
At the moment, our Professional Standards Unit is simply policy and Accreditation (both are one person). Previously, it included Internal Affairs, but the IA person got moved to CID to assist and does IA part time.
According to our training division, we are using the P320 and have no immediate plan to replace them.
Our recruits do not get a firearm until they are sworn in at the agency, after graduation and completion of high liability training. I think that they are still wearing the same academy uniform at graduation that they wore the entire academy, but I could be wrong.
We use interns routinely. My email is tcastle@ufl.edu if you want more information.
