In a statement Monday, the agency said it recently notified 152 departments that one or more of their officers "completed some portion of one or more online in-service trainings in less than the expected run time."
According to Farnsworth, state officials "discovered instances where trainings that should take hours to complete are finished in a matter of minutes." He said officers who completed an online course in less than the minimum runtime would forfeit the ability to do online training and be required to complete their in-service training in person.
Responsible for the development and delivery of police training standards, the MPTC suspended its online courses last month amid an investigation into "instances where some officers circumvented online training requirements."
However, an MPTC spokesperson clarified Monday, "No determination has been made as to whether any of these [487] officers have failed to complete any portion of mandatory online in-service training."
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