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... However, there are several challenges facing organizations like the INL that support police training in other countries, particularly in the Global South. Significant challenges arise with the wide range of cultural, institutional, political, and social contexts within the countries supported by INL.
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... These realities present a diversity of challenges and opportunities for foreign assistance donors and police training. As part of its efforts to strengthen policing in the countries it supports, INL asked the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene an ad hoc committee to gather scientific evidence and assess research needs for effective policing in the context of the challenges above.
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... Such differences can alter both the implementation and the impact of practices tested in one context and applied in another. What this report offers is a starting point toward developing stronger knowledge about how overseas assistance can help improve training outcomes for police institutions in these varied contexts.
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... CONCLUSION 2: An evidence-based approach to police training em phasizes five principles: that training should do no harm; that training activities, tactics, and strategies should be supported by good evidence; that the educational training methods used are also effective; that organi­zations continuously track, test, and evaluate training efforts; and that the delivery of training needs to be flexible and contextualized.
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... Instead, it focuses on what is currently often absent in training that is likely to help achieve the goal of promoting the rule of law and protecting the population. Often absent from police training -- including in the Global North -- is scientific knowledge about effective policing strategies and tactics, empirical facts about crime, victimization, and offending, and theoretical approaches that can help officers think more critically about their everyday work.
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... Routine Activities Theory: Crime emerges when a likely offender converges with a suitable crime target in the absence of a capable guardian. Understanding people's everyday routines and the inter action between these routines and the opportunities for crime at specific places can help officers understand why crime concentrates at certain places and times.
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... : • Targeting high-risk micro-geographic places or "hot spots" of crime, especially using problem-solving approaches; • Focused deterrence strategies for high-risk offenders; • Diversion for low-risk and youthful offenders; • Risk assessment and protection orders to protect domestic violence victims from further abuse; and • Spatial targeting of high-risk drug offenders within the drug market environment. CONCLUSION 4: Officers must be trained on tactics, strategies, and ­actions that have been shown through high-quality research to effec tively promote the rule of law and protect the public.
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... EFFECTIVE TRAINING METHODS AND DELIVERY Training not only needs to focus on effective policing approaches to promote the rule of law and protect the population, it also needs to use ­effective educational methods and pedagogy. Effective teaching methods are essential to ensure that topics that officers and organizations are trained on will be maintained in officers' minds and then sustained and operationalized in practice.


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