Police Training to Promote the Rule of Law and Protect the Population (2022) / Chapter Skim
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. First, the settings for police training are not just in a basic academy or in donor-sponsored training sessions but occur in formal "field training" or "in-service training" and informal settings such as everyday supervision and mentorship in the field.
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The committee's consensus is that investments in evaluation of police training are likely to increase police capacity to promote the rule of law and protect the population. Popularly promoted and frequently used training programs (e.g., de-escalation, procedural justice, implicit bias training, and community-oriented policing)
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,1 provide training to police officers as part of their assistance efforts overseas. Such training has varied in form and dosage.
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As discussed in this report, a central goal for police training is to transfer the knowledge and skills necessary for police to promote the rule of law and protect the population (see Box 1-1 for the committee's perspective on rule of law and protection of the population)
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State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs defines the concept as: A principle of governance in which all persons, institutions, and enti ties, public, and private, including the state itself, are accountable to [domestic] laws that are publicly promulgated, equally enforced, and independently adjudicated, that are consistent with international human rights norms and standards.b Other dimensions and detailed conditions of the ROL are available in the broad legal and philosophical literature (e.g., Bingham, 2011; O'Donnell, 2004)
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Drawing on relevant lit erature, particularly from the international context, the project will inform the State Department's capacity-building activities aimed at strengthening the effectiveness of local, in-country law enforcement agencies, building the technical skills of for eign law enforcement personnel through training and technical assistance, and assisting in institutional police reform at the local level. Each of the five workshops will bring together experts to discuss the evi dence and its implications for the international sector, as well as practitioners using the evidence to implement policy.
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The Mazerolle paper provided an assessment of the existing evidence supporting the core knowledge and skills that need to be included in police academy training to promote the ROL and the protection of the public. The Herold paper examined existing training methodologies deployed in support of training curricula.
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The report presents the committee's assessment of the information it has gathered and provides guidance for police training based on the state of research evidence in this area. It does not contain complete workshop proceedings, but instead draws on resources and descriptions from the workshop discussion as relevant.4 As a project commissioned to conduct five workshops and produce five reports in a rapid production process, the committee's methods d iffer somewhat from the single consensus report model, such as the report recently prepared by the ad hoc consensus committee on proactive policing (see NASEM, 2018c)
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