Formation Training Teams are ready to help

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Do you know the members of the Formation Training Team (FTT) in your District? Do you even know what a FTT is? In fact, FTTs have just been introduced to the Formations and are based on the recently updated Force Procedures Manual (FPM) Chapter 52-15 and Staff Relations Manual Chapter 4. The role of the FTTs is to actively and consistently assist Training & Staff Relations Officers (TSROs) on the Training Days and for other training commitments in the Formations, aiming at equipping frontline officers continuously with updated police knowledge and skills as well as facilitating good internal communication. So, FTTs are indeed both important and valuable.

According to the revised FPM 52-15, which has just been released, Major Formations/Formation Commanders will identify and nominate suitable officers, including an Inspector/Senior Inspector FTT, Station Sergeants or Sergeants as members of the FTTs to assist the TSROs. A roster system will be formally set up to ensure FTTs can assist the TSROs for a tenure of at least two years.

To enable the FTT members to take up such a vital role, the FPM 52-15 also states that FTT members are to attend relevant training courses. In this regard, the Training Development Bureau (TDB) of the Training Wing has organised a three-day Train-the-Trainer course on Facilitation & Team Building Skills for them. New Territories South (NTS) Region has spearheaded such training for their FTTs. Two training courses were conducted in June and July 2003 for a total of 30 officers from the NTS, with two more officers from the SMPDIST who were just keen to join the course together with the NTS officers. The participants not only learned a lot from the lectures and the facilitation and team building practices, but also had a lot of fun and built up a good team spirit. What's more, they felt much more confident in discharging training duties after attending this course.

Recognising the importance of FTT members, Acting Assistant Commissioner (Training), Mr Paul Hung Hak-wai, and NTS Regional Commander Ms Bonnie Smith, came personally to deliver the opening and closing addresses. SSP NTS (Crime) Superintendent Mr Gabriel Chan Wai-kong also came to talk to the trainees on enhancing internal communication. Ms Smith stressed the importance of being fully prepared to deliver the training as an FTT member. She pointed out that skills taught in the course, such as facilitation, were not only training skills but were also useful policing skills. As for Mr Hung, he greatly encouraged the FTT members, pointing out the support provided to them by the Training Wing offered the Region a set of team building equipment.

Members of Formation Training Teams at a three-day 'Train-the-Trainer' course

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