EDITION
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higher education is most commonly incorporated into police
training and education as part of the process of
organizational reform
organizational reform
- geared towards community-oriented policing
- current police structure (the training school) acts as an
inhibitor to organizational reform and is unlikely to
counteract the authoritarian tendencies that often provoke
crises in policing
which had teacher-centred tuition for programmed instruction
Birzer (2003) and Peace (2006)
related to law and procedure and humanistic, student-oriented
advocate a dual strategy
strategies (andragogy) for the
exploration of the affective issues related to community policing
the study of teaching adults
andragogy - encourages collaboratively determined objectives between
students and trainers that produce more positive learning
outcomes
- can be argued that university education helps develop skills
that improve community orientation and local accountability.
Community policing requires police officers to make decisions
and solve problems (rather than incidents) using skills that
Accountability
can be developed as part of higher education courses
- can improve accountability is in police officer attitudes and
performance. Research from the USA has shown that higher
education can have a positive impact upon
police performance, particularly when it is combined with job experience
, -the introduction of higher education certificates in Australia
and USA led to increased public support for the police.
Legitimacy
- Public mistrust of the police in India provides a useful point
of comparison here, with the low status and limited
education of police officers being cited as two reasons for a
lack of public confidence
- degrees in criminal justice and police studies can be
designed to incorporate a generic set of core skills and
competencies and also meet the demands of different police
organizations
Policy implications
- Higher education promotes creativity and critical thinking ahead
of control and the potential to counteract the cultural instincts
of criminal justice institutions
- provides police officers with an appreciation of the
importance of global issues and their impact upon crime at
the local level
led the effort to professionalize policing which prevailed throughout the
twentieth
August Vollmer century and continues today. The professional movement
centers on deploying well- trained, skilled officers
- although professional policing is more than 150 years old in
the USA, most departments did not offer formalized
academy training until the 1960s
most police departments in the USA are having a difficult
Emerging issues in
time filling available positions, and unfortunately the shortage
police officer
of qualified applicants does not appear to be diminishing.
recruitment and
selection