Human Relations Training for Police

Quest for Quality Training in Police Work

Developing a Serious Game for Police Training

AbstrAct 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 ...

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...

Building Police/Community Relations Through Virtual Communities

Over the past two decades, police departments around the globe have been involved in a slow, but steady transition from call-based policing to community-oriented policing. The former approach, while effective at closing cases once a crime has occurred, does little to develop crime prevention partnerships between officers on the beat and the citizens of local communities. Community-oriented poli...

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...