Navigating our web site

Navigating the POST Web Site
http://www.idaho-post.org

Idaho Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Academy

We hope we have laid out our web site so you can find information quickly and navigate between web pages easily.
We always welcome comments and suggestions to make this a more useful web site for you.
Please contact us through our Postmaster web page at http://www.idaho-post.org/Questions/Postmaster.html.

Notice that a Questions button appears at the top of most of our web pages. This takes you directly to our Postmaster web page and allows you to send questions from several places on our web site. Even if you are uncertain where you might direct your questions, just click on the Questions button and select a main group from the list shown. Your questions and comments will be automatically directed to more than one person, including our Postmaster who reviews electronic correspondence each business day. Thank you. Welcome to POST!

Clicking on our header bar image from any web page takes you home: http://www.idaho-post.org/index.html

TEMPLATES

An introduction to our templates might be a good place to start. We use three main templates for creating most of our web pages and a couple of minor templates for ‘special’ web pages. Our three main templates all display the navigation bar (navbar) along the left side of your screen and the usual web page links at the very bottom of your screen. However, they display different things along the top area of your screen.

1- General
Information
Template

OPR

Because our energies at POST are directed into four main areas, our general information template displays icons to quickly access these areas: Academies, Certification, In-Service Training, and the Office of Professional Responsibility.

Click on the Academies icon, from any web page using our general information template, to go to our main Academies web page http://www.idaho-post.org/academies/academies.html

Click on the Certifications icon, from any web page using our general information template, to go to our main Certifications web page http://www.idaho-post.org/certifications/Certifications.html

Click on the In-Service Training icon, from any web page using our general information template, to go to our main In-Service Training web page http://www.idaho-post.org/Training/Training.html

Click on the Office of Professional Responsibility icon, from any web page using our general information template, to go to our main OPR web page http://www.idaho-post.org/OPR/Integrity.html

2- Academies
Template

CDs

If you click on the Academies icon, you will access a collection of web pages pertaining to our many academies. Our academies web pages use our second main template - our academies template that displays three general areas pertaining to most academies: Academy Coordinators, Self-Sponsored Students, and Academy Calendar.

Click on the Academy Coordinators icon, from any web page using our academies template, to go to our web page introducing POST staff associated with academies. This is a good page for individual contact information including e-mail links. Our academy staff is housed in the new Correction Training building (building 8) on the POST-Idaho State Police campus in Meridian. http://www.idaho-post.org/Staff/CoordinatorsA.html

Click on the Self-Sponsored Students icon, from any web page using our academies template, to go to our web page with information on paying your own way to attend an academy. Most cadets are agency-sponsored but a few cadets each year are selected to attend academies as self-sponsored students. http://www.idaho-post.org/SSStudents/SS_Student.html

Click on the Academy Calendar icon, from any web page using our academies template, to go to our web page listing all dates for all academies at POST for the calendar year. http://www.idaho-post.org/academies/ACalendar.html

Click on the CD Training icon, from any web page using our academies template, to go to our web page listing details and links regarding CD Training at POST. http://www.idaho-post.org/academies/CDTraining.htm

3- In-Service
Training
Template

Reg4

If you click on the In-Service Training icon, you will access a collection of web pages pertaining to our many In-Service Training web pages. These web pages use our third main template, our in-service training template.

POST is currently divided into three regions for coordination of in-service training. The first region is in north Idaho, the second in southwest Idaho, and the third in southeast Idaho. In-service training also includes many established courses where officers earn specific certification including training for DARE, DRE, K9 Teams, Marine Deputies, and Reserves. This area also includes specialty training such as EVOC, Multidisciplinary Teams, and School Resource Officers.

Click on the Region 1 icon, from any web page using our in-service template, to go to our main Region 1 web page http://www.idaho-post.org/Reg1/Reg1home.html

Click on the Region 2 icon, from any web page using our in-service template, to go to our main Region 2 web page http://www.idaho-post.org/Reg2/Reg2home.html

Click on the Region 3 icon, from any web page using our in-service template, to go to our main Region 3 web page http://www.idaho-post.org/Reg3/Reg3home.html

NAVBAR

Enough about templates! Let’s take a look at our navigation bar (navbar) located at the left side of your screens on all web pages that use any template. The navbar is composed of two tiers. The first tier is always visible from our main web pages. The second tier, that takes you to related links, is displayed to the immediate right of the first column when you let your mouse pointer hover over a button.

http://www.idaho-post.org/index.html

http://www.idaho-post.org/about_post/About_POST.html

http://www.idaho-post.org/rulesnregs/Administrative_Rules.html

http://www.idaho-post.org/Training/Training.html

http://www.idaho-post.org/academies/academies.html

http://www.idaho-post.org/certifications/Certifications.html

http://www.idaho-post.org/Forms/AllPOSTForms.html

http://www.idaho-post.org/OPR/Integrity.html (was "Publications" now "OPR")

http://www.idaho-post.org/post-trs/login.do

http://www.idaho-post.org/MTRS/

http://www.idaho-post.org/links/links.html

Home: http://www.idaho-post.org/index.html

If you pause while moving your mouse pointer above the About POST button on the navbar, you will see a second tier of related links. These links include: ABOUT POST (a 2^nd way to link to the About POST web page), Introduction to POST, Maps to Meridian, Meridian Facilities, POST Council, POST Staff, and Regional Addresses.

About POST: http://www.idaho-post.org/about_post/About_POST.html
This button takes you to a good web page to visit if you are new to POST. It announces our mission, vision, and goals and displays more link buttons to POST Staff, POST Council, Facilities (in Meridian), and Addresses (inc. regional addresses). It also has links to an Introduction to POST in two formats, and to the new POST Org Chart.

http://www.idaho-post.org/POST_Intro/POST_Intro.pdf

http://www.idaho-post.org/about_post/Directions.htm

http://www.idaho-post.org/Facilities/Facilities.html

http://www.idaho-post.org/Council/Council.html

http://www.idaho-post.org/Staff/staff.html

http://www.idaho-post.org/about_post/regions.html
This is one of the best quick reference pages on our web site listing counties and agencies within POST regions.

If you pause while moving your mouse pointer above the Admin Rules button on the navbar, you will see a second tier of related links. These links include: ADMINISTRATIVE RULES (a 2^nd way to link to the Admin. Rules web page), 1101 - Patrol (Basic), 1101 – Detention, 1101 – Reserve (Sec. 130), 1102 – JV Detention, 1103 – JV Probation, 1104 – Correction, 1104 – Probation / Parole.

Admin. Rules: http://www.idaho-post.org/rulesnregs/Administrative_Rules.html
This button takes you to a good web page to visit if you want to access links to all rules pertaining to Idaho POST Academy as defined in Idaho code. All links from this page go to Administration of Idaho web documents specific to rules pertaining to select academies. The document 1101 pertains to rules for basic patrol and detention academies, and section 130 pertains to rules for reserve academies. Documents 1102 and 1103 pertain to rules for juvenile detention and juvenile probation academies. The document 1104 pertains to rules for both correction academies and probation and parole academies. [Note that all documents are in PDF formats which may be viewed on your computers using the free software Adobe Reader. Occasionally, we get calls that our links work but documents cannot be opened. Generally, concerns are resolved by callers using the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader.]

http://adm.idaho.gov/adminrules/rules/idapa11/1101.pdf

http://adm.idaho.gov/adminrules/rules/idapa11/1102.pdf

http://adm.idaho.gov/adminrules/rules/idapa11/1103.pdf

http://adm.idaho.gov/adminrules/rules/idapa11/1104.pdf

If you pause while moving your mouse pointer above the Training button on the navbar, you will see a second tier of related links. These links include: TRAINING (a 2^nd way to link to the main training web page), Calendar, CD Training, Coordinators, DARE, DRE, EVOC, K9 Teams, MD Teams, MHMI for LE, Region 1, Region 2, Region 3, Reserves, SRO, and Videos.

Training: http://www.idaho-post.org/Training/Training.html
This button takes you to our main In-Service Training web page with a lengthy list of links to web pages related to training at POST. Some special links on this web page include:

Cafeteria Info - http://www.idaho-post.org/Facilities/documents/POSTcafe.pdf
Career Camp - http://www.idaho-post.org/Career_Camp/careercamp.html
Certified POST Instructors - http://www.idaho-post.org/Idaho_Instructor/POSTinstructors.html
FTO Manuals - http://www.idaho-post.org/Forms/FieldTrainingManuals.html
Marine Deputies - http://parksandrecreation.idaho.gov/recreation/marinelawenforcement.aspx
Presentations - http://www.idaho-post.org/Training/presentations.html
Training Bulletins - http://www.idaho-post.org/Pubs/Bulletins/Bulletins.html
Training Coordinators -http://www.idaho-post.org/Staff/CoordinatorsA.html
Vo-Tech - http://www.idaho-post.org/academies/Votechprograms.html
College Credits - http://www.idaho-post.org/certifications/Colleges.html

There are also two rows of buttons just under the top of the in-service training template on web pages related to training that link to some of our main training web pages.

Calendar of In-Service Training - http://www.idaho-post.org/Calendar_Training/calendar.html
This web page receives constant web visitors. There are many ways to get to this calendar. Click on TRAINING then CALENDAR on the navbar. Click on the icon of a calendar along the top of the home page, then on the calendar icon again from the training web page. Click on the small blue Calendar button in the rows of blue links on the Training page.

http://www.idaho-post.org/academies/CDTraining.htm

Academy or Regional

http://www.idaho-post.org/DARE/DARE.html

http://www.idaho-post.org/DRE/DRE.html

Emergency Vehicle Operations - http://www.idaho-post.org/EVOC/EVOC.html

http://www.idaho-post.org/K9_Teams/K9Teams_Home.html

Multidisciplinary Teams - http://www.idaho-post.org/MDteams/mdteams.html (CARTF)

Mental Health/Mental Illness, quick refs by county for Idaho LE Officers -
http://www.idaho-post.org/BeautifulMinds/BeautifulMinds.html

North Idaho - http://www.idaho-post.org/Reg1/Reg1home.html

SW Idaho - http://www.idaho-post.org/Reg2/Reg2home.html

SE Idaho - http://www.idaho-post.org/Reg3/Reg3home.html

http://www.idaho-post.org/ResvAcad/Reserve.html

http://www.idaho-post.org/SROs/School_Resource_Officers.html

http://www.idaho-post.org/Video_Search/video_catalog.html

If you pause while moving your mouse pointer above the Academies button on the navbar, you will see a second tier of related links. These links include: ACADEMIES (a 2^nd way to link to the main academies web page), Calendar, Coordinators, Detention, Dispatch, Juvenile Detention, Juvenile Probation, Patrol, Probation / Parole, Regulations, Reserve, and Self-Sponsored. (Note: There is no longer a Transition Academy at POST)

Academies: http://www.idaho-post.org/academies/academies.html
This button takes you to our main Academies web page with a lengthy list of links to web pages related to Academies at POST. Some special links on this web page include:

Academy Packets - http://www.idaho-post.org/academies/AcadApps.html
Academy Requirements - http://www.idaho-post.org/rulesnregs/Administrative_Rules.html
Meridian Facilities - http://www.idaho-post.org/Facilities/Facilities.html
Directions - http://www.idaho-post.org/about_post/Directions.htm
Parking – http://www.idaho-post.org/Facilities/documents/StudentParkingAreas.pdf
Basic Instructor Evals - http://www.idaho-post.org/evaluation/SetupLogin.action?academyType=1
Law Week CD Study Guide - http://www.idaho-post.org/academies/academies.html
Juvenile Academy Instructor Evals - http://www.idaho-post.org/evaluation/SetupLogin.action?academyType=2
Integrity Bulletins - http://www.idaho-post.org/OPR/Integrity.html
Mental Health Refs for LE - http://www.idaho-post.org/BeautifulMinds/BeautifulMinds.html
EVOC - http://www.idaho-post.org/EVOC/EVOC.html
Cafeteria Info - http://www.idaho-post.org/Facilities/documents/POSTcafe.pdf

http://www.idaho-post.org/academies/ACalendar.html

Academy or Regional

http://www.idaho-post.org/CorrAcad/Correction.html

http://www.idaho-post.org/DetnAcad/Detention.html

http://www.idaho-post.org/DispAcad/Dispatch.html

http://www.idaho-post.org/JVDetnAcad/jvdetnacad.html

http://www.idaho-post.org/JVProbAcad/jvprobacad.html

http://www.idaho-post.org/PatrAcad/Patrol.html

http://www.idaho-post.org/CorrAcad/Correction.html

http://www.idaho-post.org/academies/Regulations.html

http://www.idaho-post.org/ResvAcad/Reserve.html

http://www.idaho-post.org/SSStudents/SS_Student.html

There is also a rows of buttons just under the top of the academy template on web pages related to academies

The Certification button takes you to the main Certifications web page with links to web pages with details for select academies. http://www.idaho-post.org/certifications/Certifications.html

Basic Detention Certification - http://www.idaho-post.org/certifications/DetnCert.html
Basic Patrol Certification - http://www.idaho-post.org/certifications/PatrCert.html
Correction Certifications - http://www.idaho-post.org/certifications/CorrectCert.html
CCA - Private Prisons Certifications - http://www.idaho-post.org/certifications/CCA_Cert.html
Dispatch: Communication Specialist Certification - http://www.idaho-post.org/certifications/DispCert.html
Juvenile Basic Detention Certifications - http://www.idaho-post.org/certifications/JVDetCert.html
Juvenile Basic Probation Certifications - http://www.idaho-post.org/certifications/JVProCert.html
K9 Teams Officer Certifications - http://www.idaho-post.org/certifications/K9Cert.html
Probation & Parole Certification - http://www.idaho-post.org/certifications/ParoleCert.html
Reserve Certifications - http://www.idaho-post.org/certifications/ResvCert.html

The Forms button takes you to the main Forms web page. http://www.idaho-post.org/Forms/AllPOSTForms.html
Most forms are in Adobe Acrobat Reader (PDF) formats and some are partially fillable online.
Get Acrobat Reader (free) - http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

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The OPR button takes you to the Office of Professional Responsibility web page. http://www.idaho-post.org/OPR/Integrity.html.
Publications are now accessible from links from the main Academies, Training and About PSOT web pages. These include: Annual Business Report, Idaho LE Employment Report, Protocol (newsletter for MD Teams), Idaho Cops 4 Kids (newsletter for SRO and DARE officers), and archived issues of the Training Bulletin, and DRE officer news.

The Training Records button takes you to the login web page for all training records for all officers in Idaho listed by agency. For information on accessing these records, contact your regional in-service training coordinator for Region 1, Region 2, or Region 3.

The MTRS button takes you to the login web page for the Mandatory Training Records System for all officers in Idaho for recording mandated training within specified time periods. For information on accessing these records, contact your regional in-service training coordinator for Region 1, Region 2, or Region 3.

If you pause while moving your mouse pointer above the Links button on the navbar, you will see a second tier of related links. These buttons include: LINKS (a 2^nd way to access the main Links web page), ID County Sheriffs, ID Police Depts., ID State Police, ID Juvenile Centers, ID Medal of Honor, ID Officers’ Memorial, POSTs USA, and Special Notices.

Links - http://www.idaho-post.org/links/links.html
This is an alphabetic collection of links related to every aspect of law enforcement. It is updated and visited often.