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4 Training Methods and Delivery
4 Training Methods and Delivery
Pages 49-64
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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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municipal police departments, for example, receive an average of approximately six months of basic academy training and approximately four months of field officer training (Reaves, 2016)
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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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Relatedly, training methods also need to take into account the abilities of trainees. For instance, in countries where basic literacy levels may be low, a combination of written, pictorial, and verbal dissemination of knowledge is likely required to share news or policies in ways that are accessible to all officers.
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This dual pronged approach of MT teaches police what they should be doing, while simultaneously teaching citizens what police should be doing -- thus improving the chances that citizens will hold police accountable for their actions. Anecdotally, the Sierra Leone MT was viewed as a success, as election observers reported high levels of professionalism among police officers, neutrality at the polls, and very few complaints logged against police following the election.
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His first takeaway was the importance of using local solutions to solve local problems. For example, he highlighted the tendency of using retired police officers, often from the Western world, to train law enforcement overseas.
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The present state of research fails to provide a comprehensive picture of the characteristics of police personnel providing police training instruction. Even less information is available about the skills of people typically tasked with designing training curriculum content and selecting training methods.
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. Further, such training methods have been argued to misrepresent actual police working conditions and duties (Belur et al., 2020)
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. Such a process includes conducting a training needs analysis, developing training objectives, selecting training methods, pilot testing the training design, and evaluating the outcomes of training.
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. An understanding of the workforce capacities will help determine which training methods and resources best fit the training situation.
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. Recent randomized trials, however, have started to examine changes to officer behavior after procedural justice training (Owens et al., 2018; Wheller et al., 2013)
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EVALUATIONS OF TRAINING METHODS While a growing number of police trainings are subjected to scientific inquiry, the review of the literature in one of the commissioned papers (Herold, 2021) found that most evaluations of training assess training impact in relation to trainees' attitudes on the training, a few test policing outcomes post training, and even fewer test the effectiveness of methods on learning.
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Two evaluations were conducted using randomized controlled trials; three were conducted using quasi-experimental designs. Four of the five training method evaluations found evidence of improved learning or performance outcomes in one method compared to the alternative.
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conducted a quasi-experimental study comparing three different ways of teaching police officers how to interview sexual assault victims. The training was conducted in the basic academy offered by the University of Illinois, Police Training Institute for newly a ppointed municipal officers from across the state.
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The game was designed to help police recruits learn to take initial child witness statements. Assessment outcomes found that recruits who participated in the game learning displayed better tacit understanding, including demonstrations of empathy and attention, compared to those who received the same curriculum in face-to-face training.
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, much recruit training worldwide is still delivered through traditional militaristic-style instruction. Fieldtraining methods also have characteristics that may undo lessons learned in academy training.
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