Cultural Diversity Training
- Implicit Bias
- Humane Policing
- Dynamics of officer/citizen encounters
- 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.