CRM/LAW C139 Lecture 16: lecture 16
12 Jan 2017
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Changes are needed at police academies so that their curricula more accurately reflect the skills needed by officers working in departments that are attempting to achieve community policing: structural barriers. Police culture in academies not really affected by the community policing model and educational efforts: they rather learn bureaucratic approach (orders from top town) Change is unlikely: method by which academy curricula are established continues to reflect the bureaucratic policing model. Even if u are introducing different types of producing, they become second in place. Mandated areas do (cid:374)ot i(cid:374)(cid:272)lude (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)it(cid:455) poli(cid:272)i(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d the offi(cid:272)ials" la(cid:272)k of trust for their own. Can officers think on the job: weapons training still a high priority. Details: p. o. s. t- some states have criteria as far training, some variation in standards across the country exist as the result of accessibility. Academy training is broken down: criminal, law, health and welfare codes, writing reports, emphasis on tactical, physical.
