Cultural Diversity Training

1. Implicit Bias
2. Humane Policing
3. Dynamics of officer/citizen encounters
4. Cultural Diversity Training
   • Every new police officer that gets hired attends three (3) culture awareness training components in their first year:

   a)    Visit to the Jim Crow Museum Ferris State.  It’s narrated by the school as well 

   b)    Visit to the Holocaust Museum in Farmington Hills. 

   c)    Visit to the Arab-American Museum in Dearborn.

General Training                                                                                                                                                              

• 47 CIT (Crisis Intervention Team) Trained officers, as well as 4 officers who teach at CIT regularly.
• Regionally based training with all of our Ingham County partners.
  • CDU (Civil Disturbance Unit)/MFF (Mobile Field Force) and AVI (Active Violence Incident) response are trained in opposite years.

• The current Annual Training Series has been set up in the following manner the past 4 years:
  • FEB/MAR – All personnel attend a one-day lecture. The agenda varies depending upon the year, but officers always have consistent presentations on:
    • Legal updates from the Ingham County Prosecutor’s Office
    • Legal updates from the Office of City Attorney
    • Human Resources presentation from the City’s HR department geared towards a specific diversity topic or population
  • SEPT/OCT – All personnel attend one day Range/Defensive Tactics, complete all required qualifications and take part in any decision-based exercises.

• LPD facilitates on-duty training both at the firearms training range and in our office every cycle. Topics vary.