Archive for the ‘Entry Level’ Category

YouTube and Police Videos . . .Uhmm!

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

If you have ever visited YouTube.com and waded through the thousands of homemade videos that would have been better left on the cutting room floor, you may be asking why Google spent over a billion dollars to buy it. If you are anticipating an answer to this question, you ...

PD Discontinues “Reality-Based” Training

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

On a positive note, a city police department (who will remain unnamed for the purposes of this article) will stop planting unloaded weapons, fake drugs and other props in unsuspecting civilians' cars as a way to help train officers to search vehicles. Of course on the down side, you ...

Reevaluating Our Training Delivery Methodology – Part I

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

With some limited modifications, the lecture model has been the traditional delivery method for training criminal justice officers for many years. Although we have significantly increased the amount of practical exercise training in the entry level training environment, the predominate training methodology still revolves around herding students into a ...

Attention To Detail – Now You Know!

Friday, November 17th, 2006

The first sentence in the duties for a job announcement for an education specialist with the Department of Navy says, "Attention to detail and meticulous preparation are the secrets to delivering world-class learning!" The work styles section of a job description for a chemistry teacher says the position requires, "Attention ...

What Is Your Definition of Ethics?

Friday, October 13th, 2006

In the law enforcement profession, we give a lot of lip service to the concept of "ethics". I have attended and taught numerous courses on professionalism and ethics and I have heard a long list of definitions of ethics. The one thing that I have concluded after all ...

Keep Your Finger Off The Trigger!

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

Most cops probably had that range master who constantly remindied you to keep your finger off the trigger unless you were going to fire your weapon. It has probably been a while since you attended entry level training but the message is still just as important. Check out ...

Basic Gun Rules Broken In Georgia Recruit’s Death

Monday, March 13th, 2006

Reprinted from a 03/07/2006 article by Brenden Sager in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Recruits in a Cobb County police firearms class were worried about an instructor's teaching methods moments before he shot and killed a member of the class, an investigative report released Friday shows. In fact, the report said that recruits in ...

Why We Train So Hard

Monday, November 14th, 2005

"We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school." -Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War"

White Paper: Is This the Best Way to Develop, Deliver and Manage Criminal Justice Training?

Wednesday, July 28th, 2004

A discussion of issues related to alternative training delivery methods for criminal justice personnel Background During the recent General Assembly session, Delegate Watkins Abbott, of Appomattox, introduced budget language that tasked the Department of Criminal Justice Services to conduct a study of alternative training delivery method for criminal justice officers. For ...