Everett’s April 2025 Class: Use 1 Word to Describe Your Best FTO, and 1 Word to Describe Your Worst FTO

Many students of this class were tenured officers who expanded their enforcement experience We finished up with our Basic FTO Class in April with 22 new FTOs. It was great to see several attendees with lots of law enforcement experience. In recent classes, it was not uncommon to have attendees with 3 years or less of experience. These tenured…

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“Day -1, I Was Not Ready to Be An FTO; Day -5, I Feel Prepared.”

  We just completed another Basic FTO Class in Everett, WA. It was great to see representatives with the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office back in the class. This was a large class with 28 attendees heading back to their agencies to begin the process of training the next generation of new employees. This was a diverse group made up…

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Another Everett, WA FTO Class in the Books

Shane Hawley teaching some students at the Field Training Officer (FTO) Refresher Class in Everett, WA during late September, 2023.   On September 29th, 27 students completed our 40-hour Basic FTO Class in Everett, WA. We were excited to have 10 different agencies send their trainers in our class. Those agencies included Lynnwood, Edmonds, Redmond, Bellevue, Marysville Police Departments. Tribal…

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