Training

Training of PPC agents can be anything from nonexistent to months-long. Upstairs has a long history of sending agents into the field relatively untrained, possibly because they are of the opinion that if an untrained agent can survive his first mission, he didn't need extensive training to begin with; and if he can't, he probably wasn't agent material.

Training of a PPC agent may consist of:
 * Giving them a weapon and pointing them at a Mary Sue. Common when a popular movie creates a new influx of badfic.
 * Sending them to an Official Fanfiction University.
 * Assigning them to a veteran partner who is expected to train them.
 * Having them go on training missions with an experienced pair of agents.
 * Basic Training, which usually lasts anywhere from a week to a month, and is conducted by agent trainers.
 * Serving as an intern under a senior agent.
 * Classroom-style instruction in one of HQ's auditoriums.
 * Training films, such as Your Lightsaber and You
 * Education of children in the Nursery includes basic agent training, and may result in a fully trained agent by the mid-teen years if the child in question wants to become one.
 * Being shown how to use the PPC's technology.
 * For ex-fic characters, may include getting a stable personality or having one's Sueish traits removed.
 * Training rooms where agents can practise in their free time.
 * Assassins sometimes undergo a final exam which consists of going on an actual mission and being scored by experienced agents.
 * The Bad Slash final exam has been known to consist of watching a part of a Legendary Badfic and compiling a charge list.
 * Post-2006, agents in the Department of Internal Affairs get extensive training in combat and police work; a recruit's initial basic training is followed by a period working with one of the more experienced officers to get firsthand experience of DIA procedure and the realities of policing the PPC. There is also mandatory training time for all officers, to keep them in top shape.

The security departments get more thorough training than other agents as a matter of necessity. Agents can also pursue training on their own time, often through use of training rooms in Headquarters and/or seeking out colleagues for instruction.

Examples of PPC Training

 * Prologue, Rena Chang and Shay Williams
 * One of the crowd (Lord of the Rings), Joe and Ginger administer the Assassin Exam to trainee Lee