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Duces Tecum
This is a lay opinion, and is probably worth about what you paid for it.
I like to think that most jurors are favorably disposed towards their local PD, but the PD has to give them something to hang that hat on.
If I were on the jury and the PD was defending their firearms training syllabus with things like Black Belt Patch Standards, it would bias me against them, although I may have no idea what BBPS might be. For an institution to pick some currently popular gun guru or trendy drill and, in the years to come, trying to explain to the jury why they did so ("Cool name, bro, F.A.S.T!) might be more difficult then it first appears.
On the other hand, were I on that same jury and the PD explained that their training program concluded with the same final tests used by Gunsite or FLETC (both with 40 or more years of institutional memory), I would be heavily inclined towards supporting the PD on the grounds that graduation drills for institutions like those mentioned constitute "best practices".
It's the final test that counts, not the training details. Nobody is suggesting that the PD has to have the same ammo budget as FLETC.
Like I said, it's worth what you paid for it.