Needs and Goals for Police Training

Police Accountability: Current Issues and Research Needs

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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...

Managing Evaluation Goals for Training

of training material serve many goals and are characteristically underre-sourced. In this article, we describe a framework for managing training evaluation in such contexts. We illustrate by example the feasibility of taking a broad approach toward training evaluation. Scriven [21] introduced the terms formative and summative in his classic work on the objectives and processes of instructional ...

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 ...