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 **Meeting Your Agency’s Training Goals:
The Free, Self-Paced Training Portal Accessible to
All Law Enforcement** May 2019 | Volume 12 | Issue 4
  With tight training budgets and limited time for law  enforcement personnel to participate in training, what’s better than access to free,  self-paced online resources and courses? The COPS Office recognizes the how  crucial day-to-day law enforcement operations are to advancing public safety,  which is why the COPS Office created the COPS Office Training Portal. The Portal  allows entire law enforcement agencies to refresh and deepen their knowledge,  skills, and abilities, as well as learn new practices and procedures in a range  of topics related to community policing. From applying evidence-based policing  practices to homicide and violent crime reduction to tactical community  policing for homeland security to ethical decision making and more, everyone  from individual officers to entire departments can be trained at their own  pace, at no cost. New e-learning courses are added regularly, and getting  started is as simple as creating an account and selecting the courses and  resources that best fit your needs. Course progress is saved automatically, so  it’s easy to start a course, complete a module or section, and then come back  later when you have time. The online training fits your busy schedule, so there  are no timed tests or pressure to finish in a certain timeframe. The COPS Office wants to know the impact of these e-learning  courses on participants, so at the conclusion of each course (and at later  points in time following your training experience), you’ll have the opportunity  to provide feedback. Here are a few insights provided by Portal course  participants so far: “Using job related scenarios really helped me to  be prepared to utilize the skills presented in the course.”
          “This course was very informative and easy to  understand, I would not change anything about it.”
          “Excellent training”
          “Wonderful courses”
          “Outstanding”
          “Very Intuitive”  In addition to online courses, you’ll find many additional  multimedia resources on the Portal. These are designed to be flexible learning  tools, which you and your organization can implement in whatever ways work best  for you; some of the resources are multi-functioning and can either be accessed  online or downloaded for distribution or use in agency-wide training efforts. Examples  of available resources include video training packages with accompanying  facilitator’s guides, roll call training program materials, access to the COPS  Office Resource Center (housing thousands of publications and toolkits), and  the video series “What’s New in Blue” (featuring innovative projects, programs,  and initiatives being implemented across the country).  The Portal also features a list of COPS  Office-sponsored in-person courses, so if you or your agency are interested in  hosting a training event, you can easily find the abstracts and contact  information for courses from the homepage. To ensure the success and ease of use for the Portal, the  COPS Office partners with the Virginia Center for Policing Innovation (VCPI). If  a technical issue arises, a course question needs clarification, or you wish to  make suggestions regarding the Portal, the team at VCPI is available to assist  via email or phone at (833)  650-7910. Simply go to the COPS  Office Training Portal to start the process. Additionally, the COPS Office  Training Portal can be accessed on the COPS Office website through the training and technical assistance tab. Melissa Bradley
          Senior Policy Analyst
          COPS Office Sheila Gunderman
          Director of Programs
          Virginia Center for Policing Innovation (VCPI) Tweet
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