Letters of Awards 2005

Employee of the Year 2005

Officer Darin Gilbert,

It is with great pleasure that I give you the distinction as the 2005 Employee of the Year for the Farmington Police Department. This annual award is given to any full-time employee who stands well above other employees in the performance of their job and who contributes immensely to the mission of the Farmington Police Department.

During 2005 you stepped up as a senior patrolman and mentored several new officers that had joined the Farmington Police Department within the last year or so.  As you know, it takes a long period of time for a new officer to learn the various aspects of law enforcement so that they are comfortable and competent to handle the multiple tasks they will perform routinely.  The mentoring by a senior officer is one valuable and meaningful way to teach inexperienced officers the proper and correct way to perform their jobs.

You also revamped our Field Training Manual the Farmington Police Department uses to orient and train newly hired officers. You modernized the manual by transitioning it to the adult learning method of teaching.  This will be valuable not only to teaching a new officer about the job but it will allow us to learn about the character of a new officer.

For the reasons mentioned above, you have stood out and are the Farmington Police Department's "2005 Employee of the Year".

Once again, congratulations for a job well done.


Sincerely,


Richard E. Caton III
Chief of Police