Practical police field lessons, plainly told.
Free Field Training is a practical law-enforcement training show built from field stories, live questions, and plain procedural advice. It moves from police hiring boards and stress answers to impersonators, parking tickets, bad gear, security work, and emergency firearm safety.
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Free Field Training is a working-level law-enforcement education show with a practical, unsentimental center. It is less classroom lecture than after-shift explanation. Episodes tend to begin with a specific problem: an oral board question, a police impersonator fear, a parking ticket argument, a new officer buying bad gear, or a gun found unexpectedly during a hospital call. From there, the show builds outward. The point is usually a rule of thumb, a safety habit, or a clearer way to think under pressure. Police hiring gets recurring attention, especially the stress questions, personal answers, and agency fit issues that can come up in oral interviews and psychological exams. Public-safety adjacent work matters too. Security guards, EMTs, paramedics, traffic workers, volunteers, and people trying to enter the field all appear as part of the same larger world of responsibility, judgment, and limits. The show is comfortable correcting listeners. It pushes back on fear-driven policy ideas around impersonators, on rude behavior during discretionary enforcement, and on the tactical-products market that tries to sell new officers gear they do not need. Its procedural side is unusually concrete. The firearm-safety episode explains revolvers, semi-automatics, magazines, chambers, safe direction, visible clearing methods, and why unloading a handgun can matter even for someone who does not shoot. The live Q&A format keeps the show loose. Questions range from morale and security backup to abandoned buildings, volunteer experience, patches, and whether military service is necessary before police work. Personal material surfaces without turning soft. In the episode about first experiences, the discussion of death and emotional venting becomes a practical warning against keeping everything bottled up. The show can be repetitive, but the repetition serves its field-training style. It circles a point until the operational lesson is hard to miss. Listeners looking for polished criminology may find it rough around the edges. Listeners who want direct public-safety advice, grounded in an officer's working examples and audience questions, will understand the appeal quickly.
Made for: For aspiring police officers, new public-safety workers, security staff, and law-enforcement-curious listeners who want operational context before they step into real situations. It also fits people who prefer direct answers over theory-heavy professional training.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by turning ordinary field problems into step-by-step judgment calls: how to answer stress questions, clear a firearm, read a parking ticket situation, or spot bad gear advice. Its value is the working texture, not polish.
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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Officer Tommy Model makes police procedures and career decisions legible through concrete examples, audience questions, and candid limits on what he knows.
Free Field Training turns police work into practical instruction, with Officer Tommy Model explaining procedures, hiring questions, workplace judgment, and public misconceptions from inside the job.
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A late-night Q&A that treats policing as staffing, judgment, and hard limits, not ceremony.
Free Field Training turns a late-night live session into a practical look at what police work asks of the people doing it. It keeps its attention on staffing shortages across the Chicagoland area, the struggle to find qualified candidates, retention problems, and the listener…
A police story that turns into a blunt lesson about loss, support, and staying connected.
Free Field Training starts with a personal memory and lets it widen into something more grounded: grief, support, and the habits that help a cop stay steady.
A direct look at the stress questions and hiring basics that shape police oral boards.
Free Field Training keeps its focus on a police oral-board staple: the stress question. Officer Tommy Mottle opens with the two prompts he says come up most, the one about a stressful time in your life and the one about how you handle stress now, and he makes a simple case for…
A blunt, practical defense of policing that resists panic over impersonators.
Free Field Training takes a direct look at police impersonators and builds its argument around a few concrete cases, from a college janitor who altered an ID system to an instance of officers extorting drug dealers.
A straightforward look at who can issue parking tickets and why the bill still matters.
Free Field Training takes parking tickets and turns them into a compact look at municipal authority: who can issue them, why municipalities rely on them, and where the money goes, at least in Officer Tommy Model's telling.
Optometry, from the exam chair to the front desk.
Situational awareness talk for high-risk, high-stakes work.
Driving instructors compare notes from the passenger seat.
Irrigation training that counts savings in water and dollars.
Officer Tommy Model opens the night with a live Q&A about becoming a cop.
Officer Tommy Model opens by framing the day around what he calls the greatest and worst first time in his life.
Tommy Mottle opens with police oral interview boards.
Chief Chris DiGiuseppe opens on police impersonators.
Tommy Model opens with coffee, patch shipping, and a reminder that merch links are coming.
Veteran police officer Tommy Mottl warns new cops about thieves in the law enforcement community who exploit their budget for unnecessary tactical gear.