Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
• Reform Era
• Community Era—1968
• Community-based policing
• Rethinking of policing concepts
• Interaction among officers and citizens working in
partnership to prevent and fight crime
Corbis/Bettmann
• Intelligence-led policing
• Relies on data and intelligence concerning patterns
to predict future crime patterns
• Prediction of when and where crimes will occur
The academy
Run by police agencies and is a controlled military
environment. This is where recruits are taught all
the proper techniques for police work.
Educational training in the laws of search, seizure,
arrest, and interrogation.
How to use weapons
Crime scenes
Self-defense
Many more aspects
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Recruitment and Training
• The field
– Not as controlled of an environment as before
– Lasts from 6 to 8 months
– Supervised by a Field Training Officer
– Where the recruit actually learns how to be an
officer
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