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Beyond Survival toward Officer Wellness (BeSTOW): Targeting Law Enforcement Training

Police chiefs have a constitutional and moral duty to protect and serve their personnel and communities. Busy police chiefs want the very best expertise in training in order to accomplish this mission...

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Educational Programs for Fusion Center Directors

To mature and strengthen the management capabilities of fusion center leaders through academic homeland security coursework, the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHD...

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Nine-Week Army Program Provides Civilian Police Force Training

The United States Army Civilian Police Academy, currently located at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, conducts state-of-the-art police skills training for U.S. Army and Department of Defense (DOD) civilia...

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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 ...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...