FGB was developed by Crossfit, with the name coined by MMA fighter B.J. Penn. The program was adopted into the training curriculum of the MSP academy and has proven to be invaluable in preparing recruits for the rigors and stress of the job of a State Trooper.

Workout mimics MMA fight with compound movements. Three Rounds, each round is five minutes, with one minute rest in between. Total 17 min.

• 03:58 Designed to push past limits
• 04:16 Simulates real-life fight intensity
• 04:58 Training critical for life or death situations

Intense training simulating real-life fights to push recruits beyond their limits for life-saving skills. Training designed to push individuals past their limits for life-saving skills. Importance of intense training for real-world scenarios where it could be a matter of life and death

Massachusetts State Police say a recruit was airlifted to a Boston hospital on March 8th and is still receiving care for a serious illness. Recruit was hospitalized for eight days in Critical Medical Unit.

During morning inspection on Wednesday, March 8, Massachusetts State Police Academy Drill Staff observed that a Trainee in the 88th Recruit Training Troop appeared ill. The Trainee was sent to the on-site Academy Medical Unit and was assessed by a Trooper, who immediately directed that the Trainee be transported by ambulance to UMass Memorial-Harrington Hospital, where he was treated for a serious illness. The Trainee was subsequently transferred, via medical helicopter, to Beth Israel-Deaconess in Boston, where he continues to receive care for his illness,” Dave Procopio, MSP spokesman, said in a statement.

Multiple Massachusetts State Police Academy trainees were injured during an unauthorized training exercise at the facility in New Braintree.

They were treated for injuries after being forced to do “bear crawls” across hot pavement.

“The exercise resulted in blisters to some trainee’s hands, which were treated by the Academy Medical Unit. The Colonel immediately initiated an investigation of the unauthorized training and further increased oversight of training operations,” state police spokesman Dave Procopio said in a statement.

The department removed the two academy drill instructors who supervised the exercises and returned them to their regular assignments elsewhere in the department at the direction of State Police Col. Christopher Mason. Detective Lt Scott McDonald, commandant of the academy, and Lt. Matthew Gladu were the supervisors transferred out along with a pair of drill instructors involved in the bear-crawling exercise

Multiple Massachusetts State Police Academy The recruit sustained a superficial wound to his lower leg on July 6, and was taken by ambulance to UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester.

He was holstering his gun at the time of the mishap, according to state police report.

By the afternoon, he had returned to the academy and was expected to resume training.

Cadet involved in an accidental shooting at the academy has resigned after his return from a hospital. The recruit submitted his resignation and left the program Thursday.

The trainee was a member of the 87th recruit training class that is expected to graduate in October.

Multiple Massachusetts State Police Academy December, two troopers were suspended without pay for failing to intervene when a group of trainees were filmed  hurtling down a makeshift slip-n-slide in a hallway at the facility.

Troopers Douglas Grout was suspended for 45 days and Trooper Ryan Stanley was suspended for 30 days — both without pay. An internal investigation revealed Grout and Stanley directed the trainees to participate, took video of the hijinks.

In 2005, senior officials at the academy were reassigned to other posts after it was revealed that instructors had been dunking trainees’ heads into dirty toilet bowls. Lt. Richard Lane was removed from his post. A decade earlier, a state appeals court judge had ruled that the state’s anti-hazing law did not apply to the academy. The academy’s regulations strictly prohibit officers from engaging in unprofessional language or behavior.

In 1988, Timothy Shepard, a 25-year-old from Pittsfield, collapsed from heat stroke just a week into his training at a state police academy. Although he eventually regained consciousness and underwent a surgery, he succumbed to an infection and passed away six weeks later on November 3, 1998

Police recruits walk out FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (AP) – Nearly a quarter of the training class at the Massachusetts State Police Academy walked out one week after the course began, calling it “degrading and inhuman treatment.” But Sgt. Paul Biloff said the 25 percent dropout rate is normal. Four of the eight women recruits were among those who walked out. “The pressure situations created at the academy are designed to make a trainee react quickly to situations he might face in the future,” Biloff “It weeds out the people who can’t take it. The really intense pressure is in the first week. They don’t realize it will let up as the 20-week program goes along.” But even so, it was still too much for some of the recruits. None of them wanted to be identified, they said, because it might hurt them while looking forother jobs.

Öne of the 119 recruits who started the course last week said he reported to camp in a business suit and was ordered to run a mile through mud and water, then do pushups in a puddle. “They woke us in the night and made us drag our sheets and bedclothes through the showers and then sleep in them,” he said Another recruit who left after 72 hours said trainees were jammed in groups into toilet stalls and made to stay there for one hour. “We had a couple of guys who had been in the Marine Corps and said it was worse than Parris Island,” he said. “One guy said.he’d rather do one year of boot camp there than what the state police were doing to us.”

The director of security at the academy that trains officers who serve in Massachusetts courts stepped down, after a report of an investigation looking into claims of abuse at the academy were released.

Jefferey Morrow was at the helm of the Massachusetts Court Officer Training Academy for eight years.

According to the report, five recruits in one academy class “were either struck in the face or strangled during defensive tactics training or ‘extra help’ sessions.”

Instructors were heard bragging about recruits getting kicked out including “a disabled recruit who did not pass…by one pushup,” the document lays out.