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Your agency’s field training officers play a vital role in shaping the future of your public safety department. Their operations require accountability for themselves, their trainees, their agency, and the community. Field training officers can better secure and maintain that accountability by using software designed to add automation to reduce errors in training operations and reporting. The right FTO software solution for your department will offer all of these valuable features: Digitized Daily Observation Reports Are your FTOs still using pen and paper to document the evolution of each new recruit? The margin for error is significant with this outdated technique. With software that digitizes this process, you and your field training officers can: Record all trainee and performance data in one secure location Access reports from anywhere at any time Maintain more legible and accurate documents Substantiate promotion and termination decisions Reduce the margin for error Efficient Training Program […]

Public Safety departments throughout the country utilize field training programs to help bridge the gap between what recruits learned in the academy and what real-life public safety duties entail. Field training programs are also used when employees transition to a new job within Law Enforcement, Jail, Dispatch, Fire, and EMS. The two primary training programs for post-academy recruits in the United States are FTO (Field Training Officer) and PTO (Police Training Officer). Though the programs each have their distinctions, both see higher success when departments have the best training evaluation software in place. Field Training Officer (FTO) Program Referred to as the San Jose Model (SJ) or Field Training and Evaluation Program (FTEP), FTO programs exist to provide new hires/trainees the training they need to perform their job successfully. Trainees get the opportunity to maximize the transfer of academy learning to real-life performance in the field while under the direction, […]

The new year is approaching, and there’s no better time for you to reevaluate your organization’s management techniques and make improvements wherever needed. Don’t head into 2020 without considering your current management efforts and how new and improved public safety software could transform your operations and employee management in the new year. Who MdE’s Public Safety Management Software Solutions Can Help As experts in software development, having extensive knowledge of the public safety sector, we’ve been able to develop and provide time-saving and efficient solutions for specialized departments, including: • Police and Law Enforcement • Jail and Corrections • Communications and Dispatch • Fire and Rescue • Juvenile Detention • Emergency Medical Services (EMS) • Airport, Port, and Private Security Firms What You Can Accomplish With MdE’s Software Solutions The software that MdE, Inc. develops is specifically designed to assist organizations in the public safety sector with management tasks, focusing […]