article_snippet.sent: Sheriff Stanley Glanz and other sheriff's officials have repeatedly insisted Robert Bates was properly trained.
article_snippet.sent: The Tulsa County Sheriff's Office has released a summary of Robert Bates training courses only over the past seven years.
article_snippet.sent: Robert Bates was classified as an advanced reserve deputy for the Sheriff's Office.
article_snippet.sent: That means Robert Bates would have had to complete 480 hours of the field training officer program to maintain that classification, the paper said.
article_snippet.sent: In his statement to investigators, Robert Bates said Robert Bates "became an advanced TCSO Reserve Deputy in 2007.
article_snippet.sent: But the Sheriff's Office has said Robert Bates had been a reserve deputy since 2008.
article_snippet.sent: the Sheriff's Office also said Robert Bates had undergone 300 hours of training.
article_snippet.sent: That would be less than the 480 hours of field training that the Tulsa World said is required to be an "advanced" reserve deputy, which Robert Bates claimed to be.
article_snippet.sent: Robert Bates also said Robert Bates'd attended "numerous schools and seminars related to drug investigations and the tactical operations associated with the apprehension of suspects involved in drug trafficking," a five-day homicide investigation school in Dallas and training from Arizona's Maricopa County Sheriff's Office on responding to active shooters.
article_snippet.sent: Brewster said that line in Robert Bates statement was referring to a lecture given at a seminar in Washington by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
article_snippet.sent: a seminar in Washington by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was part of extensive training Robert Bates received at classes across the country and through work in the field, Brewster said.