Officers were required to attend a training course entitled “2019 Contemporary Law Enforcement Challenges.”
Gladstone officers are required to take online training courses on topics such as “Racial Profiling,” “Racial Profiling for Missouri,” and “Working With Minority Communities.” Focused training on “bias awareness” for police officers is vitally important in creating an understanding of this subject and its impact on a community. Gladstone police officers will be required to participate in additional training in 2021 to educate them on “Implicit Bias” and its impact on policing. Gladstone Department of Public Safety has established, and vigorously enforces, policies to ensure minorities are not disproportionately subjected to stops or arrests by our police officers. These policies are reinforced by active/involved supervision and training of our law enforcement personnel to ensure racial profiling and other discriminatory behavior does not occur in the department.