Evidence-Based Officer Safety Training Best Practices

Monday, October 16, 2023

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM PST

Location: Room: 11A

Speaker(s)

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Matthew Hershey

Assistant Director, Training Division
U.S. Marshals Service (USMS)
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Brett Hall

Employee Development
U.S. Marshals Service (USMS)
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Darrick Unterwagner

Chief Inspector, Center of Excellence for Officer Safety
U.S. Marshals Service (USMS)
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Anna Ruzinski

U.S. Marshal, Eastern District of Wisconsin
U.S. Marshals Service (USMS)
Washington, District of Columbia, United States

This briefing is designed to provide the attendees with best practices and lessons learned for developing and sustaining an evidence-based officer safety training program. The presentation will outline the importance of self-assessments and examinations of critical incidents and the value they bring to accurately identifying training gaps, implementing mitigation strategies, and employing best practices. It will also cover the key attributes of the USMS’s Officer Safety program, which includes principle- or fundamental-based training that induces critical thinking under stress in compressed time to solve problems in an objectively reasonable and successful manner.