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 probably conducted by agent trainers.
 * Serving as an intern under a senior agent.
 * Classroom-style instruction in one of HQ's auditoriums.
 * Training films.
 * 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.

The security departments (DIA, DES and DIO) presumably get more thorough training as a matter of necessity; this has been explicitly stated to be the case at least for the Department of Internal Operations and the former Department of Internal Security.