Coral Gables FL Training Staff Now L.E.A.D.S. Instructors

Coral Gables FL PD trains Instructor staff  L.E.A.D.S. + T – Law Enforcement
Active Diffusion Strategies Plus Tactical Options – Three Day Instructor Training

It was a pleasure and honor to have presented our L.E.A.D.S. –  Law Enforcement Active Diffusion Strategies Instructor Training to the members of the Coral Gables PD in FL Instructor staff on July 11 – 13, 2017. The training was very well received and the attending officers participated actively throughout the entire presentation. They displayed high levels of enthusiasm, dedication and professionalism throughout the three day training session. A review of the course evaluations revealed a high satisfaction rating from the attending team.

Evaluation question. “Please assess how this course met your overall expectations?
28 Evaluations were collected. 26 students rated this course in the highest level of 5 (Excellent) with 2 ratings of 4 Very Good. 

• “Excellent.”
• “Active, engaging and energetic.”
• “Very relevant to the demands of police work today.”
• “Great instruction, relevant.”
• “The training was excellent.”
• “The presentation was perform (sp) very profession.”
• “Excellent class.  Would recommend it to any officer.”
• “Excellent presentation, very engaging.”
• “Amazing.”
• “The material was very good.”
• “Great class.”
• “Excellent.”
• “Great material, instructors related the material to the class.”
• “Excellent.  Good visual effects.”

Evaluation question. “Please assess the quality of this presentation?
28 Evaluations were collected. 26 students rated this course in the highest level of 5 (Excellent)  with 2 ratings of 4 Very Good. 

• “Yes.  Not only for my daily position, detective but also as a member of HNT.”
• “Extremely relevant.”
• “I will use these techniques strategies on the road.”
• “Yes”
• “As an HNT member, the techniques taught relevant to HNT tactics\ dead on relevance.”
• “De-escalation strategies are very well done and very much needed in this day our age.”
• “Yes, will incorporate into our training lesson plans.”
• “Yes as a trainer I can use a lot of the material.”
• “Great methods of teaching officers.”
• “As an instructor, I will use these techniques.”
• “Yes as a police instructor.”

 Evaluation question. Would you recommend this training to other officers?
28 Evaluations were collected. (100%) of students stated they would recommend this course to their peers.”

 Evaluation question. Please assess the presenters of this program. – Lt. Kevin F. Dillon (ret), Lt. Mark Poisson (ret) and Sgt. Liam Duggan.

28 Evaluations were collected. 100% students rated the instructors in the highest level of 5 (Excellent) with 1 ratings of 4 Very Good. 

• “All instructors brought something in different a new perspective.”
• “All very good and spoke well.”
• “All are very good.  Styles complement each other.”
• “The diverse styles and background added to the value of the class.”
• “Great instruction, experienced officers and instructors.”
• “The instructors were great.  They kept the attention of the attendees.”
• “All instructors were knowledgeable about the material covered.”
• “All the trainers were knowledgeable, humble, but he and kept my attention.”
• “Very knowledgeable and engaging.  Excellent job of presenting the information.”
• “Real cops teaching real cops using real scenarios.”
• “All instructors seem interested and intelligent and their topic.”
• “I enjoyed your passion to teach the material and really enjoyed the scenarios.”
• “All instructors were excellent, good job keeping the students involved.”
• “All of them bring tremendous experience which they share with us.”
• “Great.  Animated personality keeps such a complex topic interesting.”
• “All three instructors were well educated and versed in their topics as experts. Could really see they live and breathe this course.”
• “The instructors delivered an excellent training program.  Great communications and great knowledge display.”

 Evaluation question. Please explain how this training will enable you to change or improve your present assignment.” 28 Evaluations were collected. 24 students rated this course in the highest level of 5 (Excellent)  

• “I am currently a hostage negotiator and utilize many of these techniques taught in this course.”
• “Allow me to better communicate with citizens.”
• “The study of the brain is something I have always been interested in. this program has provided me with good points that I can use it and continue to study about.”
• “Good ideas about to calm people down and to stall for time.”
• “Better position to lead, teach and explain paradigm shifts.”
• “Better able to formalize subject for presentation.”
• “I plan on using it to minimize use of force when possible.”
• “It would allow me to provide my units with more tactics to defuse / de-escalate different situations.”
• “Great amount of resource to help with in service training.”
• “Will assist me greatly.”
• “They give other / better options when dealing with confrontations, thinking outside the box.”
• “This training reminds us that there are more alternative. We only always practices for the worst outcome but not the better one.”
• “As a field training sergeant I look forward to implementing this training.”
• “I will use in department training for the entire agency.”
• “I realize that there are options to solving problems and I’m more aware of danger signs.”
• There were specific instruction that I saw that I can use an (..?..) on training dates.”
• “Help train new officers with diffusion strategies.”
• “I can incorporate with our regular training”

All course evaluations are kept on file in the office of KFD Training and Consultation LLC and are open for review.