article_snippet.sent: One deputy reported that One deputy was tasked with providing field training for Robert Bates.
article_snippet.sent: The written policy is that a reserve deputy is required to have 480 hours of training, but that Huckeby and Albin pressured the trainer to write that Robert Bates was qualified after only 320 hours.
article_snippet.sent: the trainer, fearing reassignment if the trainer did not comply, signed a memo stating that Robert Bates had completed 328 hours of training, and did not elaborate on details of the training.
article_snippet.sent: Later, a memo stating that Bates had completed 328 hours of training, and did not elaborate on details of the training was amended by his superiors to read, in part, that Robert Bates was "capable of performing the functions of a patrol deputy.
article_snippet.sent: One deputy said One deputy initialed the changes, even though One deputy didn't think Robert Bates was properly trained.
article_snippet.sent: According to a memo stating that Bates had completed 328 hours of training, and did not elaborate on details of the training, the trainer said that if the trainer was honest, the trainer would have said Robert Bates needed remedial training, and that One deputy was "not really good at traffic stops or operations.