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Training bulletins
A lesson plan becomes a one page bulletin, a five minute roll-call briefing and a five question check the sergeants can run.
One lesson plan, three audiences
The state training bulletin lands as a lesson plan: twenty pages, written by someone who has never met Reyes's division. Somewhere in it is the thing four teams need to do differently on Monday.
Reyes has always had to find that thing by hand, write a bulletin, then say it out loud four times at four roll calls, then find out three weeks later that the swing shift never heard it. The work does not change. The hours it takes do.
| Format | Who reads it | What it must do |
|---|---|---|
| One page bulletin | Everyone, in the policy platform | Be the record, with the citation |
| Roll-call briefing | The team, standing up | Ask for one action this shift |
| Five questions | The sergeant | Show whether it landed |
Attached is a state training lesson plan. Write me a one page bulletin for a patrol division. Structure: what changed, why it changed, what an officer does differently starting now in three bullets, and what a supervisor checks. Cite the policy section and the lesson plan page for every factual claim. Plain language, active voice, no more than 400 words. Flag anything in the lesson plan that conflicts with what a patrol officer can actually do on a shift. [upload the lesson plan]
Rewrite that bulletin as a briefing I read aloud at roll call in five minutes. Written to be spoken: short sentences, no bullet points read out as bullet points, no citations in the middle of a sentence. Open with the one change, give one concrete example of it, say what I want to see on this shift, and end with the question I ask the room to check they followed it. Give me the timing in minutes down the left.
Write five questions a sergeant asks the team a week after this bulletin, to find out whether it landed. Four multiple choice with four options each, one short answer. Every question about a decision an officer makes, not a definition they memorise. Give me the answer key, and for each wrong option one line on why somebody would pick it and what that tells the sergeant.
Write a discussion scenario for this policy. Invent the facts entirely: do not use, adapt or reconstruct any real incident. Two paragraphs, set in a mid-sized city, built so it lands on the three decision points in the policy and so reasonable officers would disagree at the second one. Then the four questions I ask after reading it, and what a good answer to each one includes.
What Reyes checks before it goes out
Two things, every time. The citation, opened in the policy platform rather than trusted. And the three bullets, read as an officer with four hours left on shift: if any of them needs a second reading, it gets rewritten before the sergeants ever see it.