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'''Basic Law Enforcement Training

Basic law enforcement training is when an individual has to attend a police academy for a certain amount of months where they are lectured on the law enforcement policies and also given many real life scenarios to be able to adjust to their new career. Prior to becoming a police officer one must go through several requirements, such as written exams, interviews, and test like the Polygraph. Once an individual passes all these requirements, the next step would be to begin their basic training in order to become a sworn police officer. Every police station has their own requirements to allow an individual to join their law enforcement agencies. Cadet and explorer programs help individuals who have not met the age requirement become better prepared to complete the law enforcement process.

Once these individuals manage to become a part of the academy they are referred to as police trainees or recruits. One thing a police trainee needs to take in consideration is that every state has different requirements, which individuals must complete to eventually be considered a police officer. Law enforcement agencies have different training programs where they send their recruits. These training programs are also referred to as academies. Police trainee’s can be involved with these academies from twelve to twenty-six weeks depending on the agency. Through the training, police officers develop great skills that they use throughout their career.

Skills Developed:

1. Psychomotor skills is the development of a person’s strength, coordination, speed, flexibility, movement, and anything that has to do with the physical appearance as well as the way the brain functions.

2. During the cognitive skills training, some of the educators of the police academies teach their recruits the Bloom’s Taxonomy. The Bloom’s Taxonomy is the process of the way someone thinks by using the skills of knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, evaluation, and synthesis. With the cognitive skills training, police officers are able to practice real-life scenarios that allows them to understand how others think and make a police officers understand others people’s perspectives.

3. Affective Skills is when a police officer comes across any situation and the police officer needs to make sure he analyzes the problem correctly in order to addresses the situation in the right manner. The affective skills play an important role when a police is out in the workforce. These skills allows recruits to change their perspective and allow them to modify their feelings, emotions, and/or beliefs on how they view a certain thing or idea.

4. Responsibility is also another important skill that police trainees need in order to become a successful police officer. Police trainee’s and police officers are in charge of many individuals within the communities. Therefore, the law enforcement has a big responsibility in protecting and serving the communities in our nation.

5. Leadership plays an important role for when a recruit is trying to become a police officer because the police trainee needs to show the instructor they are capable of handling all the tasks given to them. They need to prove they are committed individuals who are dedicated to making a difference in their communities.

Physical Training

Physical Training is crucial when a recruit is trying to become a police officer. A recruit is trained by professional field training officers, which are assigned to making sure the new recruits are being trained correctly and learn the appropriate way of being sworn peace officers.

Many of the officers that are training the new recruits can easily tell when a recruit’s physical appearance can be a problem to the job. Their physical appearance plays an important role because if a recruit becomes an officer and is either heavy/obese or small/petite, then individuals in the community will not take the officers seriously. Many officers would say it is not morally correct to judge a person, but it is sometimes easily evident when a person is lazy or incapable throughout the academy.

For recruits in the academies, they are given extensive physical training out on the field. Everyday that these individuals attend the academy, they are required to perform at least an hour or more of physical training. During this time, they are given obstacle courses and even taught strategies for taking down suspects. Recruits must be able to handle all training in order to successfully pass the academy.

Recruits are not allowed to use real live guns until they have gone through the full firearms training simulation. The simulation provides the perfect training for the recruits and gives them a feel of what firearms feel like and sound. They are taught how to disarm weapons and also how to properly use each different type of weapons including a taser, baton, shotgun, and handgun.

Field Work Training Stages:

1.	Recruits begin by going out in a patrol vehicle, and communicate through their radio systems. As trainees are out on the field, they are taught how to properly fill out forms like traffic citations and booking forms.

2.	The trainee has equal assignments as the field training officer, but the trainee is still under supervision

3.	At this point, the recruit now begins his or her first steps of becoming independent officer and not having to be followed on every step he or she does. The trainee must show their independence and only ask questions when necessary; however, questions should be kept to a minimum.

4.	The trainee is under full observation and has to be evaluated by the main field work trainer for final evaluation.

Although it varies for every agency, most agencies require their police trainee’s to complete over 80 hours of training with firearms, medical assistance, patrol procedures/techniques, self-defense, stress prevention, and much more.

In- Class Preparation:

Not only do the police trainee’s have physical training, but they are also learning new concepts on how to execute their job as an officer. Police trainees have lectures about different ideas and how to use their critical thinking skills.

The recruits need to understand the purpose of the laws and how to properly enforce them. The trainees are taught how to advise suspects of their rights prior to being arrested. Learning the Miranda rights is a significant concept that trainees are taught so that they inform individuals of their rights when they arrest them. In order to make sure trainees learn what they are taught, they are tested multiple times, and they must pass each of their tests in order to graduate from the academy.

Police academies want to make sure that their police trainee’s are well aware of the meaning of their mission so that they do their job appropriately. Therefore, recruits get lectured in the classrooms about ethical training in which they learn about encouragement, teamwork, and education. Many police chiefs have said that it is extremely important that police departments emphasize to their police trainee’s and police officers that it is important to behave ethically correct. Many of the individuals in the communities look up to police officers and if they do not act in an ethic matter then it gives the department a bad reputation.

Conclusion of Basic Training:

At the completion of the academy, the police trainees are given the notice of whether they are going to be sworn in to the department or either given the notice that they didn’t successfully pass the academy. For those who achieved to complete the academy, they are given a ceremony where they officially graduate as sworn peace officers.