http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/26...istol-training
One of the Atlanta TV stations did a story on the APD revamping their firearms training. The video contains more info than the text that goes along with it.
The short story is that they did away with open range days in favor of structured training. The story mentions personnel complaints, but the story claims a significant reduction in failure rates on the quals.
My personal take is that I agree with their approach as I did something similar here. Structured and supervised training is more bang for the buck even though it costs more.