scholarly journals Lived Experiences on Varied Dimensions of Police Recruits’ Training and Practice Basis for Quality Police Performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-203
Author(s):  
Julieta R. Magpantay ◽  
Alberto D. Yazon ◽  
Consorcia S. Tan ◽  
Lerma P. Buenvinida ◽  
Marcial M. Bandoy
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Core Competency ◽  
Police Training ◽  
Police Recruits ◽  
Police Supervisors ◽  
Actual Field ◽  
Qualitative Phenomenological ◽  
National Police ◽  
Training Institute

Police malpractice, abuse of power, and police misfits are issues and problems associated with police recruits. There were reports about inappropriate acts committed by newly hired police officers during their actual field practice. This qualitative phenomenological studydetermined the dimensions of training that hamper the development of knowledge and skills of the police trainees and police officers.Seventeen (17) purposely selected participants comprised the sample for this study. They were chosen through the following inclusion criteria: police supervisors, trainers, police recruits, staff from the National Police Training Institute (NPTI) and have two or more years ofexperience. Thirteen recurring themes emerged from the verbatim interviews. The Philippine National Police (PNP), National Police Training Institute (NPTI), and the National Police Commission (NAPOLCOM) are the three public safety institutions in the Philippinesthat are expected to promote the quality performance of police recruits in both training and practice. On the whole, the results of this study can serve as the basis for creating innovative policies about police recruits’ selection, curriculum development, stress management,creation of core competency framework, performance evaluation system, and training and practice needs assessment.

scholarly journals The Quality and Satisfaction of Police Training in Philippine National Police Regional Training Center 6

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-164
Author(s):  
Jasten Aires A. Ledesma ◽  
Romeo R. Tinagan
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Police Training ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Training Center ◽  
National Police ◽  
Training Institute

Police training varies across countries in terms of length, process, and content. Some countries adopt practice-oriented police training while others have theory-oriented police training. Training is necessary, especially in organizations dealing with law enforcement and public safety. It equips the police officers with the necessary skills and knowledge to address the demand for security for modern-day society. Police Training in the Philippines is under the Philippine National Police (PNP) pursuant to R.A. 11279. The Philippine National Police Training Institute (PNPTI) administers the eighteen (18) Regional Training Centers nationwide. In Western Visayas, police training is being carried out by the Regional Training Center (RTC) 6 located in Bacolod City for Police Non-Commissioned Officer (PNCO.) This study intends to assess the level of quality and satisfaction of police training in RTC 6.

Marksmanship Skills of Female Police Recruits: Impact of Basic Firearms Training

2001 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 303-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael T. Charles ◽  
Anne G. Copay
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Grip Strength ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Police Training ◽  
Police Academy ◽  
Police Recruits ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Basic Law ◽  
Female Officers ◽  
Training Institute

Female police officers generally have a weaker grip strength and are less familiar with firearms than their male counterparts when they enter the police academy. The study examined whether the basic law enforcement firearms class adequately prepared female officers. Police recruits coming to the Police Training Institute (PTI) with no or little firearms training were selected. The grip strength and marksmanship scores of 216 police recruits (185 men and 31 women) were measured. Both male and female recruits significantly improved their marksmanship scores by the end of the training. The female scores remained slightly but significantly lower than the male scores due to their lower grip strength.

scholarly journals Seeing Police: Cinematic Training and the Scripting of Police Vision

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 367-381
Author(s):  
Christina Aushana
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Police Training ◽  
Police Academy ◽  
Patrol Officers ◽  
Police Recruits ◽  
Visual Texts ◽  
Training Materials ◽  
Praxis I ◽  
Critical Insight ◽  
Ethnographic Analysis

While contemporary ethnographies on policing describe the use of televisual and cinematic images as ancillary police training materials (Manning 2003; Moskos 2008), few studies have examined how these visual texts shape the practice of patrol work. One of my primary aims as an ethnographer is to find different ways of understanding everyday policing by bringing the materials that construct officers’ visual worlds under ethnographic analysis. These materials include cinematic images used in police academies to teach police recruits how to see like police officers. Attending to cinema’s mobility in training facilities where trainees learn how to screen situations, bodies, and encounters in the field can offer new insights into understanding police vision. I proceed with the knowledge that Antoine Fuqua’s 2001 film Training Day has been screened in San Diego’s police academy. While Training Day reproduces the kinds of visual practices that are part and parcel of policing praxis, I argue that an ethnographic reading of the film offers critical insight into what happens when an idealized police vision “meets the ground” in practice. I explore the productive tension between cinematic models like Training Day and everyday patrol work through an analysis of the “precarious cinema” of policing, a concept I use to understand how police officers’ engagements with Training Day reflect and reveal a mode of police vision that is often blind to the experiences of the policed, and the performance of ethnography as a visual profiling practice that offers new conceptual frames for approaching how these blinds spots manifest in the visual worlds of patrol officers. In a time when police violence and police brutality are invariably subject to the camera’s scrutiny and a scrutinizing public, the political stakes for an increasingly visible police vision include contending with, accounting for, and being answerable to its own visibility.

Organizational cynicism in policing

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgina Enciso ◽  
Jon Maskaly ◽  
Christopher M. Donner
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Organizational Outcomes ◽  
Latent Growth ◽  
Police Recruits ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Organizational Cynicism ◽  
Curve Modeling ◽  
National Police ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Over Time

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine organizational cynicism (OC) among new police officers. Specifically, this paper investigates what factors are predictive of baseline levels of OC among police recruits and the growth of cynicism over time in these young officers. Design/methodology/approach The data for this study are drawn from Phase I of the National Police Research Platform. Latent growth curve modeling is used to analyze data on 760 police recruits across five geographically diverse training academies within three distinct time periods (first day of academy, just before graduation, and six months post-graduation) to assess the development of OC in new police officers. Findings Several variables, including gender, race, and relations in policing exerted significant effects on a baseline level of OC and on growth in cynicism over time. Practical implications OC is an important topic for police administrators. Cynicism among employees can lead to undesirable organizational outcomes such as low job morale and satisfaction. Thus, it is important for police administrators to better understand the development and growth of OC in its personnel, particularly in new police officers. Originality/value This study builds on previous research and investigates an understudied topic in the literature by assessing the development and growth of OC among new police officers.

scholarly journals Specifics of physical activity in the conditions of official activity of employees of the National Police of Ukraine

2020 ◽  
pp. 46-50
Author(s):  
V. A. Didkovsky ◽  
K. V. Pleva ◽  
O. V. Kuzenkov ◽  
V. V. Bilyk ◽  
O. A. Arsenenko
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Police Training ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Chronic Fatigue ◽  
The Body ◽  
Memory And Attention ◽  
National Police

Based on the analysis of the peculiarities of the official activity of the employees of the National Police of Ukraine, it has been established that the performance of official tasks mostly takes place in extreme conditions and involves the application of police measures by law enforcement officers. This causes significant physical and psychological stress and impairs the physical health of employees. It is stated that the official activity of employees of most units of the National Police of Ukraine is determined by irregular working hours, daily shifts, frequent services for the protection of public safety and order. This leads to constant overload and, over time, to chronic fatigue. It is established that the specifics of physical activity during the performance of official duties by police officers are determined by the police department and due to the functional responsibilities of employees. The reasons that determine the physical activity of police officers have been identified: the performance of official duties related to the protection of public safety and order, service in daily uniforms; physical training in the system of police training, participation in competitions in professional and applied and other sports. There are objective and subjective indicators used to determine the amount of physical activity of police officers. Subjective are: the feeling of difficulty in performing the work, the inability to continue its implementation in the prescribed amount and pace, fatigue, and so on. It is stated that objective indicators play a key role in assessing the level of physical activity. Among them there are external and internal. External indicators include indicators that are evaluated by its external parameters: speed, pace, number of repetitions, load, and so on. To the internal - indicators of biochemical, physiological, psychological changes in the body due to specific loads. Prospects for further research are to examine the effect of stress on police memory and attention during service.

scholarly journals The Future of Initial Police Training: A University Perspective

2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 294-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominic A. Wood ◽  
Stephen Tong
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Police Training ◽  
Position Paper ◽  
Initial Training ◽  
Police Recruits ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Police Service ◽  
The Status ◽  
University Department

A recurring issue in the initial training of police recruits in England and Wales concerns the status of student police officers. This position paper engages with debates concerning this aspect of initial police training from a university perspective by reflecting on the experiences gained over a three and a half year period of delivering a Student Officer Programme (SOP), a joint collaboration between a university department and a UK police service. As such it should be read as a comment piece that aims primarily to stimulate debate. Although not an empirical research piece, the paper nonetheless engages with the experiences that have been borne out of the collaborative running of the SOP. The paper presents a philosophical analysis of one particular aspect of that experience, namely the tension that arises from the contradictory status of student police officers.

Measuring perspective taking among police recruits

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 725-738
Author(s):  
Miguel Inzunza ◽  
Tova Stenlund ◽  
Christina Wikström
Keyword(s):  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Police Training ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Police Recruits ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Objective Tests ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
National Police ◽  
Over Time

Purpose Perspective taking (PT), as part of the empathy concept, is an important ability in the police profession. It is important to understand how PT can be measured, but also whether it changes over time. The purpose of this paper is to compare the outcomes of three different measures of PT, and to see whether police students’ PT changes at different stages of their education. Design/methodology/approach Three measures, one self-reported and two objective tests, were administered to Swedish National Police recruits at three distinct stages of their police training. The outcomes of the measures were psychometrically analyzed, after which associations between measures and between-group differences were assessed. Findings The result showed that the measures provided results that were in line with what had been reported in earlier studies. There were no significant correlations between the total scores of the three measures, yet students who graded their abilities higher on the subjective instrument did perform better on one of the objective tests. The findings also showed that recruits in later parts of their training self-reported significantly lower PT values than recruits at the beginning of their training. Originality/value This study adds knowledge on the ability of different types of instruments to measure PT and how this construct may develop over time among police recruits.

scholarly journals Profiling the Injuries Sustained by Police Trainees Undergoing Initial Training: A Retrospective Cohort Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (14) ◽  
pp. 7335
Author(s):  
Sally Sawyer ◽  
Ben Schram ◽  
Rodney Pope ◽  
Robin Orr
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Retrospective Cohort ◽  
Point Of Care ◽  
Police Training ◽  
Common Mechanism ◽  
Initial Training ◽  
Cohort Design ◽  
Risk Of Injury ◽  
The Mean ◽  
National Police

The tasks performed by police officers are unique, varied and can be performed in unexpected situations. Initial police college training is used to prepare new police officers to conduct these tasks and is known to be a time when police trainees are at an elevated risk of injury. The aim of this study was to profile injuries occurring within a national Police Force during initial training to inform injury prevention strategies. Using a retrospective cohort design, point-of-care injury data including injury body site, nature, mechanism, and the activity being performed at the time of injury were provided. A total of 564 injuries were recorded over the 22-month period, with the mean age of recruits reporting an injury being 28.83 years ± 6.9 years. The incidence of injuries ranged across training periods, from 456.25 to 3079 injuries per 1000 person-years with an overall incidence rate of 1550.15 injuries per 1000 person-years. The shoulder was the most injured site (n = 113, 20% of injuries), with sprains and strains being the most common nature of injury (n = 287, 50.9% of injuries). Muscular stress with physical exercise was the most common mechanism of injury (n = 175, 31.0% of injuries) with the activity responsible for the largest proportion of injuries being “unknown” (n = 256, 45.4% of injuries), followed by police training (n = 215, 38.1%). Injuries appear to be typically joint related—commonly the shoulder—with police training being a primary known activity at the time of injury. Prescreening protocols may be of benefit, and efforts should be made to recruit and train physically resilient trainees. Injuries, whether they occurred pre-enlistment or during training, should be fully rehabilitated prior to the individual’s commencement as a qualified officer.

scholarly journals Tactical training of law enforcement officers in the context of a new concept of the National Police of Ukraine

2020 ◽  
pp. 56-62
Author(s):  
Y.I. Davygora
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Police Training ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Normative Documents ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Psychological Behavior ◽  
Tactical Training ◽  
National Police

The analysis of the peculiarities of the official activity of the employees of the National Police of Ukraine and the normative documents that regulate the organization of tactical training in the system of primary professional training and professional training of police officers is carried out. It was stated that the performance of official duties by police officers is associated with constant contact with various segments of the population. There are many cases of encounters with aggressive people who are intoxicated, mentally unbalanced, etc. When confronted with government officials, citizens are often emotionally agitated and may not always respond adequately to law enforcement. In such situations, the tactical training of police officers is important, which is seen as the formation of special motor skills and abilities aimed at ensuring personal safety in the performance of official duties related to contact with the offender. A thorough study of the situations of practical activity of patrol police officers testifies to the existing problems in the tactical training of law enforcement officers. Erroneous actions of employees are partly explained by insufficient knowledge of external manifestations of threats from the offender, psychological behavior, low level of skills of effective communication with "problem people", the ability to control their own mental state in the performance of official duties related to communication with emotionally aroused individuals, the ability to control the situation and the actions of others without escalating conflict Such conditions increase the requirements for tactical training of personnel. It is established that in the context of the service function of the National Police of Ukraine, tactical training needs to be improved. Based on the elaboration of normative documents and scientific literature, the specifics of tactical training of police officers at different stages of professional training are highlighted. The need to improve the system of police training through further practical orientation was stated. Prospects for further research are the need to substantiate, develop and fill the content of situational tasks, which are used during training sessions on tactical training in the system of police training.

scholarly journals Improving administrative procedures and organizational principles of professional training of police officers in Ukraine

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-52
Author(s):  
А. В. Потопальський
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
National Level ◽  
Police Training ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
International Trends ◽  
Administrative Procedures ◽  
National Police ◽  
Organizational Principles

In the article, on the basis of analysis of norms of the current legislation of Ukraine and scientific views of scientists, ways of improving administrative procedures and organizational principles of professional training of police officers in Ukraine are worked out. It is emphasized that the problem of improving vocational training has long ago become a strategic benchmark for the development of the state’s labor sector at the national level as a whole and in the field of police in particular. This is clearly demonstrated by the legislative provisions of different legal acts, each of which outlines specific aspects of the development of administrative procedures and organizational principles of police training in Ukraine. It is emphasized that, first of all, the improvement of the professional training of police officers in Ukraine should be due to the improvement of the legal framework. It is necessary to create a single legal act that would, firstly, consolidate the notion of vocational training, secondly, define its levels and types, and the mechanism of their implementation, thirdly, clearly establish the subjects of vocational training and their competence. This act should be an amendment to the Law of Ukraine “On the National Police” and replace a large number of by-laws existing today. It is substantiated that the professional training of police officers in the future should be “diminished”, since the existence of four of its varieties does not correspond to current international trends, and has no expected effect. It is most appropriate to take foreign experience as the basis in this perspective. According to him, vocational training should be cyclical, step-by-step, that is, the police officer should receive initial professional training in obtaining the basic directions of fulfillment of the duties assigned to him and, as he passes the service, improve his qualification and educational level through special courses, training and training in institutions of higher education for the purpose of obtaining relevant educational degrees.

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