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4 results foundAuthor: Stana, Richard M. Title: Immigration Enforcement: Better Controls Needed over Program Authorizing State and Local Enforcement of Federal Immigration Laws Summary: Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended, authorizes the federal government to enter into agreements with state and local law enforcement agencies to train officers to assist in identifying those individuals who are in the country illegally. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is responsible for supervising state and local officers under this program. GAO was asked to review this program. This report reviews (1) the extent to which ICE has designed controls to govern 287(g) program implementation; and (2) how program resources are being used and the activities, benefits, and concerns reported by participating agencies. GAO reviewed memorandums of agreement (MOA) between ICE and the 29 program participants as of September 1, 2007. GAO compared controls ICE designed to govern the 287(g) program with criteria in GAO’s Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government. GAO interviewed officials from both ICE and participating agencies on program implementation, resources, and results. Among other things, GAO recommends that the Assistant Secretary for ICE document the program objective, document and communicate supervisory activities, and specify data each agency is to collect and report. DHS and ICE agreed with the recommendations. Details: Washington, DC: U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2009. 44p. Source: Internet Resource: GAO-09-109: Accessed October 7, 2010 at: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09109.pdf Year: 2009 Country: United States URL: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09109.pdf Shelf Number: 114779 Keywords: Illegal AliensIllegal ImmigrantsImmigrationLaw Enforcement Training |
Author: Smallwood, Michael Title: North Carolina Basic Law Enforcement Training: A Comparative Analysis Summary: Law enforcement officers are an integral part of our society. They are at our schools, on our highways, and in our communities. Their constant presence is a reminder of the general police power, the power and ability to regulate behavior and enforce lawful order, which is reserved to each state. Each officer undergoes extensive training at the beginning of and throughout his/her career to ensure that he/she enforces the laws in the correct manner. This training is imperative, as the ability to enforce laws correctly corresponds to the quality of training that law enforcement officers receive. However, the importance of training was not always understood. Not until the late 1950s did states begin to establish training boards or commissions. Currently, all states have some form of law enforcement training or standards institution and 47 states have legislation requiring minimum training standards for new officers. However, since each state's approach to government differs, it is not surprising that there is a wide variation in minimum standards, possibly resulting in a variation in the quality of law enforcement. Additionally, as the newer community policing model has gained momentum in the last few years, training standards and requirements have never been more important. This capstone focuses on the adequacy of North Carolina's basic law enforcement training requirements and standards and whether they have kept pace with the increasingly complex and ever changing role of law enforcement. The purpose of this research is to generate recommendations for North Carolina's Basic Law Enforcement Training (BLET). This paper begins with a literature review and program descriptions of basic law enforcement training in the surrounding states of the southeastern region. After the methodology is discussed, the following section provides the findings and recommendations for improvement. It concludes with a brief summary on implementation. Details: Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2012. 13p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed June 26, 2017 at: http://www.mpa.unc.edu/sites/www.mpa.unc.edu/files/Mike%20Smallwood.pdf Year: 2012 Country: United States URL: http://www.mpa.unc.edu/sites/www.mpa.unc.edu/files/Mike%20Smallwood.pdf Shelf Number: 146386 Keywords: Law Enforcement TrainingPolice Recruits Policing Education and Training Policing Training |
Author: Rojek, Jeff Title: South Carolina Law Enforcement Training Survey: A National and State Analysis Summary: he present study examines the current state of law enforcement recruit training for municipal and sheriff's departments in South Carolina by addressing three questions. First, how does the state mandated training of South Carolina compare to the standards of other states? Second, what agencies within the state of South Carolina provide additional training for recruits before they enter the field, and what is the nature of this training? Third, what agencies within the state of South Carolina place their recruits through a field training program, and what are the characteristics of these programs? The data for answering these questions were captured through two collection mechanisms, both of which took place in December 2006. Data for the comparison of state mandated training were gathered with a survey of the Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) commissions or equivalent entity in each state. The data on the training efforts of South Carolina agencies were collected by surveying a sample 65 agencies, which represents 27.7% of municipal and county departments in the state. The overall sample was derived from a two stage sampling process. The first stage involved selecting a sample of 20 agencies from agencies in the state that had 75 or more officers/deputies. The second sample of 45 agencies was randomly drawn from the remaining agencies in the state with less than 75 commissioned officers or deputies. A total of 47 agencies responded to the two waves of surveys, representing a 72.3% response rate. There were 33 municipal agencies (70.2%) among these responding agencies and 14 sheriff's departments (29.8%). The current survey of law enforcement training standards across the country and among a sample of South Carolina law enforcement agencies clearly shows that the State of South Carolina has fallen far behind national norms in its commitment to basic law enforcement training. South Carolina's 349 hours of basic academy training, which equates to a mere nine weeks, was more than 40 percent below the national and southern region medians from 2006. In 1972, South Carolina ranked 14th in the nation in its number of state-mandated basic training hours. In 2006, our state ranked second only to Louisiana in requiring the fewest number of basic training hours for law enforcement certification. The problem is not only with the lack of total hours, however. South Carolina also has not kept pace with national standards with respect to basic academy course content. In South Carolina, for example, law enforcement recruits receive no dedicated training in community policing, problem-solving, or even first aid. By way of comparison, a 2002 Bureau of Justice Statistics survey of the nation's law enforcement academies reported that 90 percent of the responding academies provided training in community policing, 64 percent in problem-solving, and 99 percent in basic first aid and CPR. Nor are most agencies themselves making up for these curriculum deficiencies. Only 36 percent of the South Carolina agencies surveyed reported that they provide any post-academy basic training to new recruits. The results from the field training portion of the survey depict a wide gulf between large and small agencies in South Carolina regarding field training practices. The median number of field training hours (475 hours) among South Carolina agencies with 100 or more officers is only slightly less than the required number of field training hours in the Austin (TX) Police Department, which has the lowest number of required hours among six agencies used as a benchmark for comparative purposes in the present analysis. However, the median number of required field training hours among smaller South Carolina agencies drops off precipitously and stands at only 60 hours for agencies with 20 or fewer officers. In many of these small agencies, new officers receive an inadequate nine weeks of basic training at the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy and then are handed the keys to a patrol car and told to report for duty. They receive no on-the-job field training at all. To be sure, this lack of field training in small agencies is a problem in other states as well, but it is exacerbated in South Carolina because of the insufficient training received by recruit officers at the basic academy. New law enforcement officers and the citizens of South Carolina are being ill-served by the lack of resources and attention given to basic law enforcement training in our state. Improving South Carolina's deficiencies in basic law enforcement training will require, at a minimum, a thorough review and overhaul of the state Law Enforcement Training Council certification standards and the basic Criminal Justice Academy curriculum. These efforts to bring South Carolina's law enforcement training standards up to national norms should result in a substantially longer basic academy, adding critical subject areas, and mandating field training for all new officers. Based on the results from this study, the following policy recommendations are offered: - The Law Enforcement Training Council, with appropriate funding, should immediately undertake a comprehensive review and comparison of the South Carolina basic training standards to those in other states and among the nation's leading law enforcement agencies. - Following this review, the Training Council should commission a new draft curriculum that would bring South Carolina to the forefront of national standards in basic law enforcement training. - While the new curriculum is being prepared, discussion must begin in the South Carolina legislature and among the state's policy-makers on how best to fund a modern law enforcement training system that can meet the demands of 21st century policing in South Carolina. - Policy-makers should consider all available options, including legislation that would permit regional and stand-alone academies for those political subdivisions willing to pay for them. - At the same time, lawmakers should pass legislation that would mandate the training hours reflected in the new basic law enforcement curriculum drafted by the Training Council and that would require a reasonable number of field training hours for all new officers. As South Carolina positions itself for economic growth and development in the 21st century, it must not give short-shrift to its public safety needs. Chief among those are the need to train its law enforcement personnel in accordance with best practices. The current state of basic law enforcement training in South Carolina, however, is far below national norms and is in need of reform. Details: Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, 2007. 46p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed June 26, 2017 at: https://artsandsciences.sc.edu/crju/sites/sc.edu.crju/files/attachments/trainingreport.pdf Year: 2007 Country: United States URL: https://artsandsciences.sc.edu/crju/sites/sc.edu.crju/files/attachments/trainingreport.pdf Shelf Number: 146387 Keywords: Academy TrainingLaw Enforcement TrainingRecruit TrainingSheriffs |
Author: Weber, Amber Ann Marie Title: An Evaluation of a Midwestern Police Academy Summary: The purpose of this research was to examine and evaluate the 2009 police recruit academy at the Duluth Police Department (DPD) in Duluth, MN, from the perspectives of those involved and gauge which components of the academy were 1) sufficient; 2) unnecessary; or 3) in need of further explanation (or needed to be added); and 4) how the community policing ethos of DPD, in connection with adult learning practices, aided training. This research was conducted because this was the first formal academy at DPD and all eleven recruits had successfully completed training that year. Fifty-two officers at DPD were contacted about participating in interviews; forty-three officers responded, with an additional three who volunteered. During interviews, officers were asked questions about their opinion on aspects of the academy, based on their category (recruit, lieutenant/sergeant, field training officer, or coordinator/instructor). Further, statistics were compiled on all officers hired from 1999-2009 by sending out sixty-seven emails (sixty-one officers responded) and going through the employee files of thirty-one additional previous employees in reference to each officer's schooling and prior experience. The primary results of the interviews revealed five themes, including the perceived success of the academy, the hands-on approach used, the reasons surrounding the creation of the academy, the "good candidate versus good training" debate, and the department and community benefit of this program. A statistical analysis of the compiled data indicated a moderately strong significant relationship between retaining the recruits and 1) prior experience, and separately, 2) schooling. An analysis was also done on a combined variable of experience and/or schooling, versus neither variable; no significant relationship was found between the variables in this case. A section was also included on the author’s firsthand experience going through the second academy (in 2010) at DPD and a discussion comparing the 2009 and 2010 academies. The principal conclusions included that the success of the recruits through training had to do with both the quality of the candidates as well as the provided training, and that a higher level of training, even if it does not prevent all candidates from being washed out, is a great tool to any agency. Details: Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2012. 118p. Source: Internet Resource: Thesis: Accessed June 26, 2017 at: https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/131249/Weber_Amber_May2012.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Year: 2012 Country: United States URL: https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/131249/Weber_Amber_May2012.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Shelf Number: 146427 Keywords: Law Enforcement TrainingPolice AcademyPolice Recruitment and SelectionPolice RecruitsPolice Training |