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From the practical to the ridiculous. Some departments only do enough to qualify, and others do a lot of training. Where I worked, we did a lot. We shot in every conceivable position, under every condition imaginable, and we also shot through various types of materials, and things like that. Learned some pretty dumb techniques too. Having said that, there are plenty of people on this forum that are more capable with a firearm than people I worked with. Not all cops are 'gun people'. Plenty didn't care at all about guns; just something else to add onto the belt. For some of us, range day was what we lived for.

For cops, your job depends on your ability to use a firearm. If you fail to qualify, you can't carry, and if you can't carry, how do you do your job? Even if they don't like guns, they still have to be proficient with them. As far as civilians go, I don't think that just because someone has police experience automatically qualifies them as an expert, nor do I believe it should elevate them above a regular Joe. The people who fought and died for this country were regular folks, and I don't think regular people of today would hesitate to do the same; police experience or not. It denigrates the argument of CCW when people have to qualify it with police or military experience.