Internal Resources - Training
General
Partner with academic institutions in development of training.
- Research-Practice Partnerships
- University Researcher & Law Enforcement Collaboration
- Connecting Police Researchers & Practitioners
- Building Trust with Communities
- Evidence-Based Policing
- Excellence in Law Enforcement Research Award
- Challenges in Police-led Evaluations
- Police – Researcher Partnerships
- Research-Practitioner Partnerships
- Center for Research and Policy
- Research Partnerships
- Evidence-Based Policing Workshop
Engage community members to provide input in police training content and delivery.
Training should use adult-based learning techniques and scenario-based approaches, where feasible.
Engage advocacy groups in the development of cultural diversity training.
Basic Recruit and Ongoing Inservice Training
Provide leadership training.
Make crisis intervention training (cit) a part of training.
- CIT Training
- The Effects of CIT Training Program
- CIT Training Program
- Arlington CIT
- Crisis Intervention Team Core Elements
Train to improve social interaction skills.
- Enhancing Police Responses to Children Exposed to Violence: A Toolkit for Law
Enforcement - Enhancing Law Enforcement Response to Children Exposed to Violence Training
- Social Media for Community Engagement Training
- The Making of a Community Policing Officer
Train on the disease of addiction.
- Addiction, the Brain, and Evidence-Based Treatment
- Heroin & Opioid Awareness
- Maine Anti-Heroin/Opiate Initiative
- Heroin Epidemic Action Plan
Train on policing in a democratic society.
Diversity Training
Train on recognizing and confronting implicit bias and cultural responsiveness.
- Fair and Impartial Policing
- Strengthening the Relationship between Police & Communities of Color
- Principled Policing Training
- Department Wide Implicit Bias Training
- Reducing Biased Policing Through Training
- Long-term reduction on implicit race bias
- This Is Not Your Grandparents’ Prejudice
- fairandimpartialpolicing.com/docs/not-your-granparents-prejudice.pdf
- Implicit Bias
- Building Trust with Communities
Implement ongoing training on cultural diversity, with the assistance of related advocacy groups.
Implement training on appropriate interactions with special populations (LGBTQ, immigrant, Muslim, Arab and south Asian).
Officer Safety and Wellness
Provide training on use of tactical first aid kits.
Ongoing training related to officer wellness and safety, including discussion of fatigue, stress, post-traumatic stress, and health.
- Vicarious Trauma Organizational Readiness Guide
- Vicarious Trauma Toolkit
- SHIFT Wellness Psycho Educational Program for Professionals Exposed to Child Exploitation
- Officer Safety and Wellness Priority One
- Law Enforcement Medical Programs
Provide training to raise awareness of the consequences of failure to wear vests and seat belts.
Use of Force
Use less lethal weapons as part of the use of force model and provide annual retraining on their use.
Training on use of force should emphasize de-escalation and alternatives to arrest and include shoot/don't shoot scenarios.