PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release | Contact: COPS Office Public Affairs |
| March 14, 2024 | Email: cops.office.public.affairs@usdoj.gov |
COPS Training Portal Reaches Milestone with 100,000 Enrollments;
Also Announces Launch of New Smartphone Application
The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) Training Portal has reached a major milestone with 100,000 enrollments.
The Portal serves as an invaluable resource for both entire agencies as well as individual officers, providing high quality, accessible, engaging eLearning trainings and resources. "At a time when training budgets are stretched thin and more is demanded of law enforcement, the COPS Training Portal serves as a no-cost option to deliver rigorously vetted, high quality learning content," said COPS Office Director Hugh T. Clements, Jr. "This allows leaders to focus their training dollars on topics that cannot be taught online."
Launched in October 2017 with just five trainings on community policing, the COPS Training Portal now boasts 45 trainings and resources on topics as varied as traffic safety, mental health crisis response, and investigative interviewing. Since then, the Portal has evolved into a training tool that is used by agencies as varied as small agencies serving a rural population to large departments serving an urban population. The Portal has proven its value across that broad spectrum of agencies, with many departments mandating courses such as Changing Perceptions: A Fair and Impartial Policing Approach, Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (Refresher), and Introduction to the Non-Confrontational Investigative Interviewing Approach, among many others. Directly supporting the law enforcement field, the Portal now serves as a cornerstone of the COPS Office's training and technical assistance portfolio.
To amplify those efforts and extend the reach of the Portal, the Portal team is excited to also announce the launch of the COPS Training Portal Mobile, available in the iOS App Store and Google Play Store. Learners will be able to complete courses offline, enabling those with weak Wi-Fi or mobile data service to train on the Portal. Then the app will sync with the website when the learner's mobile device has sufficient internet connection. This will particularly benefit rural, tribal, and Alaska Native agencies who may not have strong or consistent internet services.
In 2024 and beyond, the COPS Office plans to launch several new trainings and resources on topics both familiar and novel, including vehicular pursuits, human trafficking, responding to persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities, community engagement around critical incidents, and many more. The Portal team is currently piloting new initiatives to enhance the ability of agencies to track their users' progress and completions and is working with Standards and Training boards across the nation to provide in-service training credit where appropriate.
The COPS Office has partnered with the National Center for Policing Innovation (NCPI) for administering the COPS Training Portal, handling day-to-day management of the site, marketing, and technical support, among many other tasks. The Portal is also made possible by the organizations who have partnered with the COPS Office to create training: International Association of Chiefs of Police; National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children; National Association of School Resource Officers; National Center for Policing Innovation; National Criminal Justice Training Center of Fox Valley Technical College; National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; University of Tennessee Law Enforcement Innovation Center; Western Community Policing Institute; WILL Interactive; and XERO Associates, Inc.
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