LYNNFIELD – The Municipal Police Training Committee in Massachusetts is investigating dozens of police officers for bypassing mandatory training requirements, WBZ-TV has learned.
Hours of training completed in minutes
Every sworn police officer in Massachusetts is required to do 40 hours of in-service training. A letter obtained by WBZ-TV from the Interim Executive Director of the MPTC Chief Jeff Farnsworth that was sent to every police chief in the state says that some officers have figured out a way to go through their online training in minutes.
“We have discovered instances where trainings that should take hours to complete are finished in a matter of minutes,” the letter states, “using techniques that override controls meant to prevent fast-forwarding through the training.”
Sources say that MPTC identified 70 officers in 11 police departments who bypassed the training on a web portal called Acadis.