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Old Feb 25, 2008 | 1:31 pm
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Originally Posted by dd992emo
I'm not a huge fan of newspapers, but this article seems pretty well researched. This author claims it's 4 days of training with some OJT thrown in..

http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=2985
Sorry, maybe it was 4 days and not 4 hours - but there is no practical difference in result. It takes months of intensive multi-disciplinary training to even prep someone for the field training and experience necessary to be reasonably good at behavior detection.
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