Chief, were jumping back in. Lets listen back in. Do you train both cadets, recruits as well as veteran officers . Yes, i do. Okay. And can you describe the difference between the training that a cadet would receive versus a veteran officer . Something like this is given to the recruits. Some officers go through the other training. We would get into the training. We will introduce all the topics. All the topics like offer them those and go through different crisis training. Its different from what the recruits and the regular officer will do it with veteran officers is it generally the same type broad categories of information . Its possible the same, yeah, similar. We want to be consistent. Similar, yes. Right. And so the information that a veteran officer would offer in training is inclusive of what to look for in terms of crisis, would it not . Yes. Right. You would train officers on the policy about crisis intervention. Correct . Yes. You would train them about what to look for whe
Fentanyl it can cause them to feel very sleepy because of an increased Carbon Dioxide level. Agreed . Correct. And thats one of the reasons ultimately that fentanyl is so dangerous because it suppresses the respiratory system. Agreed . The primary reason it is so dangerous, yeah. Now, you testified that when the paramedics gave their report to you, they did not give you any reference as to potential drug use. Correct . Correct. They did not tell you that they had administered narcan or noloxone during their care, correct . Correct. And during the course of your care to mr. Floyd you did not administer narcan or noloxone, did you . No. And when you talk about those drugs that are immediately able to reverse the effects, thats what that does, narcan reverses the effects of fentanyl toxicity, agreed . Correct. When someone has a high Carbon Dioxide level, that causes that person to have a sensation of shortness of breath. Agreed . Yes. And that can happen to a person even without stress c
It can cause high Carbon Dioxide levels because it depresses the ventilation or the breathing so when someone ingests fentanyl it can cause them to feel sleepy because of an increased Carbon Dioxide level, agreed . Correct. And thats one of the reasons why fentanyl is so dangerous because it suppresses the respiratory system, agreed . The primary reason it is so dangerous. Yeah. Now you testified that when the paramedics gave their report to you they did not give you any reference as to potential drug use, correct . Correct. They did not tell you that they had the anneda immediate ministered narcan, narcan reverses the effects of nent fill toxicity agreed . That causes that person to have a sensation of shortness of breath, agreed . Yes. And that can happen to a person even without stress complicating their body, right . That respiratory, that feeling of an inability to breathe . Yes. Are you familiar with the impact of taking certain narcotics intrarectally . Rectally . Yes. That ulti
Manual. Just to name a few. There is a calendar schedule. They come to the meeting on a wns wednesday and know what topic they are going to be taught on. Volunteer hours for level one there be 16 hours of volunteering. Our department mandates that the reserve officers volunteer 20 hours a month. So weve increased it from post. In a few moments im going to talk about our new role out of the training program. Its a little more than a few hours for the first year when they get hired. If you look at the numbers at the very bottom, in 2010, our reserves volunteered 6849 hours in 2011, it was 7020 and when we increased the program, those hours will go up. In terms of assignments, 9 are assigned to the academy. What that means is they are not assigned to stations specifically. When we have a detail request, data breakers, a graduation, those are the folks what well call on to do assignment. In order to hire more reserves, we are going to have reserve officers conducting the background investi
Chiefs plan, the chief came up with this idea the other day where they said im going send a letter to every officer who is pending retiring and ask if they would be willing to stay on as a reserve officer to participate in the program. It a smooth transition. The benefit of getting them before they retire is move them from an officer to a reserve officer so we dont have to go through that investigative process. So we are working on that letter for the drop off officers and other officers not in the program to build that up to make an easy transition. Thats the chiefs idea he recently spoke about. Qualifications, its the same as any person we are hiring to be a Police Officer in our city. The exception is we want them to come to the department with the training. Im going to talk about our plan to have this training here in our police academy. But 21 years of age, meet existing post standards and pass all background investigations and requirements. In terms of hiring, this is where we ar