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Survey: The Status of Field Training

The survey assesses field training programs in use by police agencies. Two popular programs are common practice in most departments: the San Jose Model (also known as “the traditional model”) and ...

Education & Training

The Field Training Experience: Perspectives of Field Training Officers and Trainees

Field training is universally described as the most important stage in the process of becoming an independent police officer. During this period, field training officers (FTOs) present recruits with t...

Education & Training

The Florida Criminal Justice Executive Institute: A Bellwether for Leadership Training in Florida

Leadership training is one of the consistently identified needs in law enforcement training. Trends emerge and issues develop; however, without trained leaders, a criminal justice agency not only can ...

President's Message

President’s Message: The Year Ahead—November 2010

As police chiefs, we have the distinct honor of leading the finest individuals that society can produce: the police officers on the street. Each day our officers demonstrate that they are extraordinar...

Education & Training

Tips for Training with a Firearms Simulator

Today there are a variety of companies producing simulators and competing for law enforcement and military business. These simulators, regardless of the manufacturer, provide the opportunity for law e...

Education & Training

Training and Tools to Serve the Line Officer

The Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism’s (MIPT) Information Collection on Patrol (InCOP) improves the information collection skills of the most important collector in a police depart...

Training for Face-to-Face Encounters

It’s 3:00 a.m. on a desolate state route in the middle of nowhere, and an officer has made what seems like a routine traffic stop for speeding. Three persons sit in the dark vehicle ahead. The offic...

Transforming a Police Agency by Connecting Training, Performance, and Assessment to Promotion

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