PSY 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Psychopathology, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Deinstitutionalisation
30 Jan 2013
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Police work is a multifaceted, complex, demanding, stressful and potentially dangerous occupation. Requires intelligent, creative, patient, ethical, caring and hard working individuals. The purpose of police selection is to ensure individuals meet this criteria. This requires the use of valid police selection procedures that allow agencies to effectively screen out applicants who possess undesirable characteristics. Regardless of how a police agency decides screen applicants, the general stages a force must go through to develop a valid selection process are the same. In general terms, there are two separate stages in this process: Agency must define the knowledge, skills, abilities (ksas) of a good police officer. Agency must develop an instrument for measuring the extent to which police applicants possess knowledge, skills and abilities. Identifying and defining the ksas that describe a good police officer. Can be conducted by a psychologist that uses formal methods, such as survey methods and observational techniques.
