Queensland Police Service-Acting Sergeant Officer in Charge Petrie Education and Training Office
November 2013 to December 2014

February 2016 to present

Principal Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate and implement training programs in support of improved efficiency and effectiveness of the Police Service.

• Review and evaluate the effectiveness of all training programs, trainers and participants within the area of responsibility.

• Develop and maintain an education and training system to coordinate the skills and knowledge acquisition of all Service personnel within the area of responsibility.

• Train or assist in training first year constables in accordance with police objectives developed by Education & Training.

• Assist in the development of plain clothes personnel in the attainment of Detective appointments.

• Coordinate, maintain, develop and deliver operational skills training.

• Provide educational advice to district or establishment personnel that will assist in self-development of skills and knowledge of career advancement.

• Research and contribute to the development of Service policy and procedures relating to the area of responsibility.

Examples

• Currently coordinate or delegate coordination of First Year Constable (FYC) Ethics and Search Warrants Training, Investigative Interviewing Training and First Aid Training. Currently coordinating implementation of Supplementary POST training within patrol group.

• Conduct continual feedback processes with all training programs to improve delivery.  Suggestions implemented include amending time slots for presenters, incorporating expert Detective facilitator for search warrants training to value add, adding Detective Inspector Halfpenny to the Search warrant training to incorporate a good practice example for swearing out a warrant with a Justice of the Peace.

• Attended Professional Development (PD) Workshop.  Adopted new PD spreadsheet and folder to track ongoing projects, keep staff up to date with organisational change, track VET updates.

• Deliver FYC Ethics and Search Warrants training following training package guidelines and value adding with expert facilitators.

• Assisted Plain Clothes Detective obtain Certificate IV Training and Assessment qualifications by assessing two presentations as per requirements.  Detective now used as a co-facilitator on each Search Warrant FYC training day.

• Currently coordinating opportunities to improve oral communication for Criminal Investigative Detective by organising facilitation session with First Year Constable Search Warrant Training Day. 

• Currently coordinate, maintain and deliver OST Training being a qualified Instructor.

• Continually provide sound advice to personnel on the changes to job applications and career advancement including the implementation of the QLD Police Leadership Framework.  Not being a Career Planning Officer, but still able to direct personnel to the website listing trained officers as well as tips including self-assessment tools available under QPL Framework through the intranet.

Queensland Fire and Emergency Service-External Assessor

2012 - 2014

Contracted to conduct assessment for the nominated competencies within their Officer Development Program.  This requires:

• Compliance with QFRS procedures and Quality Assurance practices.

• Ensuring candidates meet the Australian Quality Training Framework (AQTF) Standards.

• Ensuring that the candidate’s evidence meets the specified assessment requirements relative to Unit Performance criteria and is sufficient to enable an assessment decision to be made.

• Provide written feedback to candidates as per QFRS Guidelines for assessors.