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AGENDA ITEM REPORT

Title: Report on the Course Certification Statistics From 5/1/17 to 8/31/17
REPORT PROFILE
MEETING DATE
10/26/2017		 BUREAU SUBMITTING THIS REPORT
Training Delivery and Compliance Services Bureau
RESEARCHED BY (PRINT NAME)
Melanie Dunn		 REVIEWED BY (PRINT NAME)
Ralph Brown
REPORT DATE
09/06/2017		 APPROVED BY
Manuel Alvarez, Jr.		 DATE APPROVED
09/18/17
PURPOSE
Information Only		 FINANCIAL IMPACT
No

ISSUE:
This is a status report of courses which have been certified, decertified or modified from 5/1/2017 to 8/31/2017.
BACKGROUND:
This report is submitted to the Commission tri-annually to report the status of certified and decertified courses (see Attachment A).  At the June 2016 meeting, the Commission requested more detail relative to this standing report. Attachment B (New Course Report) provides details regarding the certification of new courses.  Attachment C (Decertified Courses Report) provides details regarding the decertified courses during this time frame.
ANALYSIS:

The following is a summary of Attachment A:

Certified New Presenters         7

Decertified Presenters              3

Certified Courses                     151

Course Modifications              832

Decertified Courses                 29

Total Active Courses               4023

Total Active Presenters            800

Referring to Attachment B (New Course Report), 17 of the 151 courses have been updated and are not new courses. Updated courses could refer to those courses that have been previously decertified or had been placed in modification for a variety of reasons.  Three (3) courses were Multi-Media and two (2) were used for pilot testing purposes.  Of the remaining 129 Certified Courses, twenty percent (20%) of the new courses are First Aid/CPR related, nine percent (9%) are mental health related, eight percent (8%) pertain to firearms, six percent (6%) are dispatch related and the remaining fifty seven percent (57%) include a wide variety of courses.

Referring to Attachment C (Decertified Courses Report) decertified courses totaled 29.  Below is a breakdown of these courses:

Assigned new course number                             10     35%

Been in Modification for many years                  9      31%

Modification should not have been cancelled     2       7%

Presenter requested to be decertified                   7      24%

Used for Pilot Testing                                          1      3%
RECOMMENDATION:
This report is submitted for information only. Additional information concerning training courses and presenters is available in the Training Delivery and Compliance Bureau.
 
ATTACHMENT(S):
Name: Type:
Attachment_A.pdf Cover Memo
Attachment_B.pdf Cover Memo
Attachment_C.pdf Cover Memo