Deputies who have not served as an FTD within the past how many years should attend an FTD refresher course to reacquaint themselves with the current procedures?

• A. Within the last 3 years
• B. Within the last 1 year
• C. Within the last 5 years
• D. Within the last 7 years

Answer: (A)

The idea is to keep deputies who haven’t done FTD work recently up to date on how things are currently done. When you haven’t served as an FTD in a while, you need a refresher to reacquaint yourself with any changes in procedures, policies, or best practices that have occurred since you last trained.

Three years is the standard window because it provides a reasonable interval to refresh your knowledge without overdoing it, while still catching updates that may have been made. Tenor options like one year would be unnecessarily frequent for most duties, and five or seven years would create gaps where procedures could have evolved, increasing risk of noncompliance or mistakes.

So, if it’s been three years or more since you last served as an FTD, a refresher is required to ensure you’re aligned with the current procedures.