NCJ Number
196554
Date Published
2002
Length
336 pages
Annotation
This academic text covers the entire police training process, starting with the history of policing and taking the reader through all the phases of police training.
Abstract
The opening chapter emphasizes the importance of police proactive training that prepares police officers with the knowledge and skills to apply the most enlightened standards of policing. This is followed by a chapter on the history of policing, with attention to the various policies and strategies of policing manifested over the years, from Hammurabi's Babylonia in 2181-2123 B.C. to contemporary community policing. The third chapter contrasts police training and police education and presents a model that merges training and education. A chapter on academy training profiles the model for academy training used by seven police departments throughout the country. The chapter concludes with a proposed ideal model of academy training that is based on a generic formula that can be adopted by a State, regional, or in-house academy. A chapter on field training officer (FTO) programs describes those of three departments, followed by the presentation of a preferred model that addresses the selection, training, and retention of FTO's. Remaining chapters focus on the selection and recruitment of instructors, stress-management training, community-oriented leadership training, training for community-oriented policing, multicultural law enforcement, specialist and developmental training, supervisory and management training, liability issues in training, police training in other countries, and the future of police training. Chapter summaries and references and a subject index