Benjamin Steiner · Portland, Oregon · Deploying internationally
Police training that changes what officers do, not just what they've sat through.
I build curriculum and develop instructors for law enforcement agencies — the Portland Police Bureau, the Royal Bahamas Police Force, the Jamaica Constabulary Force, the Guyana Police Force. Fifteen years of that work sits on a foundation built elsewhere: humanitarian education in Rakhine State, peacebuilding in Upper Egypt, and classrooms in Indonesia and Mexico. Every engagement ends with evidence of what actually changed.
Instructor development delivered under PADF programming funded by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.
Where the work has been
Eight countries, three languages, one method
Policing across the Caribbean. Human rights education in Rakhine State. Peacebuilding in Upper Egypt. Two terms with the Peace Corps in Indonesia, and a year in front of a high school class in Monterrey to stay honest about what a room actually does with your material.
What I do
Two ways to work together
Agencies usually arrive with one of two problems. Either the curriculum isn't producing the behaviour they need, or the people teaching it were never taught how to teach.
Track 01
Curriculum analysis & development
Front-end analysis, objective hierarchies, scope and sequence, assessment architecture. I start by asking whether training is even the right intervention — then build what needs building. Recent work: parallel crisis communications curricula for the Guyana Police Force, differentiated by rank.
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Track 02
Instructor development
Training-of-trainers programmes that leave an agency able to design and deliver its own instruction. Adult learning theory, facilitation practice, co-taught final lessons, measured pre/post gain — reported honestly.
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Recent work
Kingston, July 2026
Twenty-four Jamaica Constabulary Force training staff from the Crime Portfolio and Marine divisions, five days at the National Police College of Jamaica. They arrived already knowing a fair amount — which is exactly the case where raw percentage-point gain misleads and normalized gain tells the truth.
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Nassau, Spring 2024. Eighteen Royal Bahamas Police Force training staff at the Training College in Nassau. Pre-test below 10%, post-test 81%, and all eighteen passed a co-taught 25-minute final lesson covering everything from handcuffing to rank structure.
This is one of the best courses I've ever been on in my 22 years of policing.
RBPF participant, Nassau
Writing
Notes from the training floor
Why your training numbers are lying to you. The question to ask before you build the course. Working notes on curriculum design, assessment, and what actually transfers from the classroom to the street.
Have a training problem worth solving?
Tell me what your officers need to be able to do and what's getting in the way. If training isn't the answer, I'll tell you that too.