Police Training to Promote the Rule of Law and Protect the Population (2022) / Chapter Skim
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By increasing officer presence at these places and adjusting or mitigating the environmental, social, and physical characteristics that contribute to crime concentration, crime can be prevented without the threat of displacement. As discussed earlier, effective place-based approaches specifically target micro-geographic locations, also known as hot spots, rather than the larger neighborhoods or communities that envelop them.
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committee on proactive policing indicate that problem-solving and focused deterrence efforts related to crime hot spots can help to reduce crime. Community engagement in hot spots -- while it alone may not necessarily reduce crime -- could also improve citizen satisfaction and perceptions of the police and aid in problem-solving efforts.
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use problem-oriented policing, proactivity and crime analysis, community- and citizen-centric approaches, or geographic targeting that require critical and creative thinking skills. Critical thinking skills include an array of dispositions and have been defined by several groups and scholars.
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Accurate counts of crime and measurement of trends in crime as well as outcomes of police interventions are essential for tracking and maintaining police effectiveness. Examples of useful measurements include crime-mapping of high- frequency and high-harm "hot spots," rank-ordering of the most frequently or seriously harmed repeat victims, rank-ordering of people returning from prison to local communities by their prior or predicted seriousness of offending, forecasting the highest-risk places and people likely to suffer high harm from violence or other crime, counting indicators of internal challenges such as officer absenteeism and public complaints, and tracking the before-and-after differences in the effects of police policy changes.
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Studies have shown that when police practice procedural justice, citizen satisfaction with the police improves, among other benefits. Procedural justice training for police recruits has also resulted in higher ratings of desired on-the-job behaviors by mentors (Antrobus et al., 2019)
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The committee will examine policies and practices to reduce officer use of force and effective training methods on this topic in its third report. Communicating, Collaborating, and Building Multiagency Partnerships The facts and theories about crime and crime prevention discussed above can be drawn on to help police understand why working cooperatively with other service providers, such as child social services, educational services, healthcare workers, and therapists, can in some cases prevent crime more effectively than prosecution and imprisonment.
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For example, to support diversion and focused deterrence, officers would need to know about and have access to child and adult social services to follow through with these tactics. When targeting places at high risk of crime, a central aspect of police work is partnering with other agencies and community members to regulate, control, and prevent crime (Mazerolle and Ransley, 2006)
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For example, Eggins and colleagues (2020) in their rapid r eview of criminal justice responses to child abuse found that "collaboration between child victim advocates, law enforcement and multi-disciplinary teams in child sexual abuse investigations may benefit case outcomes by increasing the satisfaction in non-offending caregivers of victims and the likelihood of successfully prosecuting child sex offenders" (p.
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The capacity to train officers on the scientific evidence base for policing requires more than just convincing officers of the merits of basing their actions and decisions on a reliable body of scientific knowledge. Receptivity to this knowledge is low, and such knowledge is generally considered by officers to be inferior to both experience and anecdotes (see Lum et al., 2012; Telep and Lum, 2014; Telep, 2016b)
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It briefly summarizes learning theories and best practices for training design. It also identifies five studies that compared different m ethods of police training across varying contexts and countries.
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. SETTINGS FOR POLICE TRAINING An international review of police recruit training programs reveals that 17 of the 24 programs studied separated training into two primary settings and separate "standalone blocks" -- residential/academy and field training (Belur et al., 2020)
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Sequencing academy training to be followed by experiential or field training -- without some reinforcement between the two -- may undermine or allow recruits to disregard knowledge learned in one setting and not the other. In addition, police might receive in-service training after they are fully certified or serving as full-time police officers.
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