Police Training Facilities and Training Personnel

Police Department Personnel Stress Resilience Training: An Institutional Case Study

The objective of this case study was to test the impact in law enforcement personnel of an innovative self-regulation and resilience building program delivered via an iPad (Apple Inc, Cupertino, California) app and personal mentoring. The Stress Resilience Training System (SRTS) app includes training on stress and its effects, HRV coherence biofeedback, a series of HeartMath self-regulation tec...

Police Pursuit : Policies and Training

Results of the study indicate that law enforcement personnel and members of the public focused on the severity of the offense committed by the suspect when supporting a pursuit. The second most important factor was the risk to the public (as defined by traffic, road conditions, and the weather). This Research in Brief discusses these and other major findings of this study and their implications...

Quest for Quality Training in Police Work

Police academy training: comparing across curricula

Purpose – This study aims to address two interrelated research questions. First, to compare the academy performance of police recruits trained under a traditional academy curriculum with the performance of those trained under a new academy curriculum based on community policing. Second, to investigate whether a different “type” of recruit performs better in the community policing curriculum com...

Commentary: The challenge of training police officers.

Vermette et al. offer significant observations about the training of police officers working with individuals who have a mental illness. The need to have effective training that meets the expectations of line officers as well as supervisors and police chiefs is readily apparent. Law enforcement officers are routinely the first responders in situations involving mentally ill persons in crisis. T...