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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Police Academy"”.
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The Impact of Participation in the Johnson City, TN Citizen's Police Academy.
<p>A Citizen's Police Academy allows citizens to attend the police academy to learn more about police departments and police work. While increasing in popularity, very little research has focused on participant impact. This study examines the impact of the Johnson City CPA on participants' …
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The Citizen Police Academy: Assessment of a Program's Effects on Community and Officer Attitudes
… in order to determine the effects of the Citizen Police Academy (CPA) program on community and officer attitudes. The two main goals of this program are to increase officer awareness of community concerns and to raise community awareness about the police department. Surveys were distributed to …
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Examining The Delivery Methods Of Current Content And Curriculum For Recruit Police Officers
… study describes the lived experiences of police officers, their training programs and their educational relationships with academy instructors and field training officers. The focus was not on content material, but rather the delivery methods of the curriculum, in an attempt to provide …
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The Psychological Response of Trainees During a 16 Week Regional Policy Academy: A Needs Assessment
… by law enforcement officers begins with basic police training. Having a solid foundation of coping strategies to support resilience is one way to reduce adverse physical and mental effects of this occupation. This project focused on assessing the psychological response of police trainees as …
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Towards the reformation of Abu Dhabi to be an environmentally sustainable city
… prototype. 2. Educational Building of Abu Dhabi Police Academy, which has an open courtyard at the centre of the building, represents a vernacular design. 3. Administrative Building of Abu Dhabi Police Academy, which has a closed atrium in the centre without any skylight, represents a …
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Teaching police cultural diversity: using action research to improve the Midwest Police Academy's preparation of recruits to police in a diverse society
… Schlosser (2011) studied how the Midwest Police Academy (a pseudonym) prepared recruits to work in racially and ethnically diverse communities. This study took Schlosser’s recommendations and developed an Action Research project to attempt to improve the cultural diversity training at the …
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Australian attitudes towards computer crime
… of the staff and students at the New South Wales Police Academy, in Goulburn. The research tested the attitudes of the respondents to computer fraud, credit card fraud, copying software and hacking into computer systems. The research found, from questionnaire responses, that computer crimes are …
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Improving commercial vehicle crash data quality in West Virginia
… Training; (2) Training at West Virginia State Police Academy; (3) "Cheat Sheet"; (4) On-Site Fatal Team available for crashes involving commercial vehicles and (5) Roll Call Materials.
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Evaluating the Midwest Police Academy's ability to prepare recruits to police in a diverse multicultural society
… and practices implemented at the Midwest Police Academy to prepare recruits to police in racially and ethnically diverse communities. In this study, I adopted a critical race theory lens, which considered White privilege, dominant White male ideology, and color-blind racial ideology, when …
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Police Education and Training: A Comparative Analysis of Law Enforcement Preparation in the United States and Canada
<p>Police academy training for newly hired officers varies across locations and regions in regard to both training process and training content. The needs and demands of modern-day societies have evolved, and it is very important for police training academies to keep up with the practice of the …
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The problem with belief: the history and present of discursive violence in policing rape
… the metapragmatics of sexual assault at a police academy in Illinois that has a novel approach to sexual assault training, this dissertation examines the discursive development of various rape myths within the United States, and Illinois specifically, while also tracing the development of …
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Coping isn't for the Faint of Heart: An Investigation into the Development of Coping Strategies for Incoming Police Recruits
… well-being of officers is critical as unhealthy police using poor coping strategies to handle their stress can lead to a multitude of negative consequences for the communities they serve, their departments, their fellow officers, and themselves. While the technology of policing is quickly …
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Police training in sexual assault response: Comparison of approaches
The literature abounds with criticism of negative police attitudes and behavior toward sexual assault victims, and a number of authors have responded with calls for improved training in this area. Unfortunately, very few such programs are described in the literature and almost none are …
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Written plans and self-evaluations in investigative interviews with witnesses
… to date has examined the interviewing of trained police officers. As such, there is a need for research examining the Preparation and planning and Evaluation stages of the PEACE model in an Australian context, with a focus on less experienced police officers. In the present research, a sample of …
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Reforming the Police: Violence, Security, and the Social in Turkey
… and policing in Turkey, as the proliferation of police-related crises once again brings police reform to the global spotlight. Drawing on 18 months of fieldwork in local police stations and neighborhoods in Ankara and Istanbul, Police Academy classes, practicum trainings, governmental and …
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New Jersey Overdose Prevention Act: Police Officers’ Experiences At A Drug Overdose Scene
… first responders’ experiences, specifically the police officers’ experiences, who administer naloxone and follow the NJOPA. Therefore, the purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study was to understand the lived experience of police officers who have responded to a drug overdose call, …
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The constitution of the field of higher education institutions in Mozambique
… of its academic staff in higher positions in the academy, as also having a relatively larger number of income sources compared to Pedagogic University (UP), Higher Institute of International relations (ISRI) and the Police Academy (ACIPOL).
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A Study of Academic Performance in Police Basic Training
… the effect it has on academic performance of the police recruits that attended the Department of Criminal Justice Training (DOCJT) for their basic training academy in Richmond, Ky. This study focused on the academic portion of recruit training only. This study assessed whether education level is a …