Mission

To promote safety and enhance professional competence through a higher standard of relevant and meaningful education and training.

Outcome Measures:

For Fiscal Year 2005/06 the State Board of Corrections mandated that we provide our peace officers with 5,350 hours of training. Our training unit provided our peace officers with 10,574 hours of training.

The laws enacted by the Legislature govern the profession of Probation and new laws are added yearly as in the case of Proposition 69. Consequently, the training offered by the department must be constantly updated and improved to stay current. Annually required training is provided variously by outside paid vendors, in-house staff or in collaboration with other agencies inside and outside the county. In order to minimize the expense of training, a few officers are trained to become “trainers” to maintain consistency and professionalism while meeting the needs of the department by providing low cost quality training.