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Discussion: Compulsory training must contain those skills that are essential <br /> for members to be effective at their jobs. Optional courses are of specific <br /> interest to individual officers. This includes specialty training like drug <br /> schools, investigative techniques, and fraud investigations. These often take <br /> place at external schools involving greater expenses, however, they are <br /> invaluable in preparing officers for greater responsibility and career <br /> advancement. <br /> <br />Leadership Training <br /> <br />The current standard for the state of Oregon requires that new sergeants receive <br />forty hours of basic supervision at the police academy, supplemented by eighty <br />more hours of approved external training within two years of promotion. <br />Additionally, the department regularly sends supervisors to the Northwest <br />Management Institute's conference in Portland, Oregon, each year. Many of the <br />sergeants and other commanders expressed a concern with the level and quality of <br />supervisory training conducted in the past (especially with the state course). <br />Departmental training should include a component where the chief, city officials, <br />and community members train new supervisors in the goals and expectations of the <br />department and the community. <br /> <br />Lieutenants and captains are eligible to attend the FBI's National Academy in <br />Quantico, Virginia, as opportunities are extended by the bureau. In 2004, the police <br />chief sent a captain to attend PERF's intensive three-week Senior Management <br />Institute for Police. Lieutenants can attend a forty-hour middle management class. <br />All supervisors are required to have eighty hours of leadership and management <br />training every three years to maintain their advanced level certification. However, <br /> <br /> 53 <br /> <br /> <br />