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1 results foundAuthor: Heslop, Richard Title: Police Pre-Employment Training the United States of America: (A study conducted under the auspices of a Fulbright Police Research Scholarship) Summary: This paper reports on findings from a study of police pre‐employment training and education in the United States of America conducted under the auspices of a Fulbright Police Research Scholarship. The report is informed by a review of key literature relating to police recruit training in the U.S.A and U.K and the author’s experiences and empirical research conducted as a visiting Fulbright Scholar at the University of Cincinnati. The report begins with an overview of the scope and purpose of the global Fulbright Programme and the U.S‐U.K Police Research Awards, before discussing the background and rationale to this research project and its aims. Further details are then provided on the methodology, including a discussion of the study’s scope and limitations. The remaining substantive sections cover findings and comparison is made with current and emerging approaches to police pre‐employment training and education in England and Wales. A key finding of the research is that where universities and colleges in the U.S.A operate pre‐employment (open enrolment) training and education programmes to facilitate their students’ entry into law enforcement agencies, they replicate the curriculum and approach of ‘traditional’ police academies; being certified and tightly controlled by state regulating authorities. Simply put, these institutions operate as private police academies. This approach works well (and is indeed necessary) within the radically decentralised and diverse structure of U.S policing and the report concludes by recommending that this approach should be considered as a possible future model for structuring U.K police pre‐employment training and education. Details: Wakefield, UK: West Yorkshire Police Training and Development Centre,, 2013. 29p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 9, 2013 at: http://www.richardheslop.net/PDFs/Heslop%20Fulbright%20USA%20Police%20Training%20Report.pdf Year: 2013 Country: United States URL: http://www.richardheslop.net/PDFs/Heslop%20Fulbright%20USA%20Police%20Training%20Report.pdf Shelf Number: 128338 Keywords: Police EducationPolice Recruitment and SelectionPolice Training (U.S., U.K.) |