German police recruits’ perception of skill transfer from training to the field

2021 ◽  
pp. 146135572110640
Author(s):  
Mario S Staller ◽  
Swen Koerner ◽  
Valentina Heil ◽  
Andrew Abraham ◽  
Jamie Poolton
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factor ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Aggressive Behaviour ◽  
Police Training ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Skill Transfer ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Police Recruits

In order optimally to prepare police officers for the demands in the field, police training has to be designed representatively. However, for the German context, there is a scarcity of research investigating to what extent training meets the demands of the field. To fill this gap, the current study examined if police training in Germany meets the field demands of police officers based on the perspective of police recruits. Thirteen recruits from a German police force were interviewed in a semi-structured way to identify possible matches and discrepancies between training and the field. The qualitative were was analysed using content analysis. The results revealed that recruits valued police training very positively because they were able to apply learned skills and tactics in the field. However, results also indicated that: (a) key informational variables present in the field were missing in training, namely chaotic, highly dynamic situations; and (b) police officers need to be adaptable and flexible in the field to cope with the demands. Finally, the results suggested that police training focuses narrowly on dealing with extreme threats, which differs from the experiences recruits had in the field and may have drawbacks because continuously perceiving social situations as threatening and dangerous is a risk factor for aggressive behaviour. Taken together, the current study provides further insights into the wants and needs of recruits in police training.

“Laying Hands” and Learning to Touch and Grab in the Police Academy

2019 ◽  
pp. 446-468
Author(s):  
Brian Lande
Keyword(s):  
Police Officer ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Gain Control ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Police Culture ◽  
Police Academy ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Police Recruits ◽  
Hands On

Research on the formation of police officers generally focuses on the beliefs, accounts, and categories that recruits must master. Becoming a police officer, however, is not simply a matter of acquiring new attitudes and beliefs. This article attends to an unexplored side of police culture—the sensorial and tactile education that recruits undergo at the police academy. Rubenstein wrote in 1973 that a police officer’s first tool is his or her body. This article examines the formation of the police body by examining how police recruits learn to use their hands as instruments of control. In police vernacular, this means learning to “lay hands” (a term borrowed from Pentecostal traditions) or going “hands on.” This chapter focuses on two means of using the hands: searching and defensive tactics. It describes how instructors teach recruits to use their hands for touching, manipulating, and grabbing the clothing and flesh of others to sense weapons and contraband. It also examines how recruits are taught to grab, manipulate, twist, and strike others in order to gain control of “unruly” bodies. It concludes by discussing the implications of “touching like a cop” for understanding membership in the police force.

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.

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.

Developing a Serious Game for Police Training

2009 ◽  
pp. 451-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed BinSubaih ◽  
Steve Maddock ◽  
Daniela Romano
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Design ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Game Design ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Police Training ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Serious Game ◽  
Sound Learning

The design of serious games based on sound learning and instructional principles is important to ensure learning is integrated in the ‘game-play’. However, the process of achieving this is not yet fully understood, and research is hampered by the lack of practical demonstrations of how effective instructional design is when used alongside game design. This chapter provides an example of a successful application of instructional design to the development process of a serious game for traffic accident investigators in the Dubai police force. We use the findings from an experiment conducted for 56 police officers to analyze how learning objects are affected by the instructional principles used. To conclude the chapter, we describe the implications of the use of serious games in the police force for policymakers, educators, and researchers.

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.

An Assessment of Unethical Work Behavior Among Police Personnel in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
pp. 76-85
Author(s):  
Olugbemiga Samuel AFOLABI ◽  
Adeyeye Adebowale ◽  
Olumide Omodunbi
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Work Behavior ◽  
Ethical Behaviour ◽  
Checks And Balances ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ethical Codes ◽  
Maximum Productivity ◽  
Police Personnel

The Nigerian police force is an institution established to protect the lives and properties of residents. Some of her duties include tackling armed robbery, banditry, recovery of stolen assets, investigation of cases, and settling violence-related issues among persons. Just like every other institution, her operations are premised on certain ethical codes and conduct which guarantees checks and balances in her relationship with ordinary citizens. Maximum productivity can be achieved by the Nigerian police if only they display ethical behaviour in the discharge of their lawful duties to the public. Growing unethical work behaviour among Nigerian police officers has drawn attention to the various despicable and condemnable acts perpetrated by some personnel. This study makes a scholarly attempt to investigate the trend of the unethical work behaviour in the Nigerian police force. Using content analysis, the findings suggest that only a handful of Nigerian police officers display professionalism and ethical behaviour in the discharge of their duties.

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.

The influence of burnout in aggressive behaviour among Portuguese police officers

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Queiros ◽  
Antonio Leitao da Silva ◽  
Isabel Teixeira
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Aggressive Behaviour

Policing the British Empire on the Bund: The Origin of the Sikh Police Unit in Shanghai

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-73
Author(s):  
Cao Yin
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Imperial History ◽  
Municipal Police ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
British Colonies ◽  
Modern Shanghai

Red-turbaned Sikh policemen have long been viewed as symbols of the cosmopolitan feature of modern Shanghai. However, the origin of the Sikh police unit in the Shanghai Municipal Police has not been seriously investigated. This article argues that the circulation of police officers, policing knowledge, and information in the British colonial network and the circulation of the idea of taking Hong Kong as the reference point amongst Shanghailanders from the 1850s to the 1880s played important role in the establishment of the Sikh police force in the International Settlement of Shanghai. Furthermore, by highlighting the translocal connections and interactions amongst British colonies and settlements, this study tries to break the metropole-colony binary in imperial history studies.

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