Waar geef je je geld en tijd aan uit in politie training? Lees deze aanbevelingen uit recent onderzoek naar politie training door Polis Solutions en Jonathan Wender. Ik heb een belangrijke paragraaf even in 5 onderscheiden punten opgeschreven:
- “Among other things, our report highlights the need to allocate more training resources to preparing officers for the most commonly occurring use of force events. Although it is a common tendency to fear being injured or killed in rare, spectacular ways, the probability of safety and survival in all aspects of life is best enhanced by consistently preparing for common and predictable perils.”
- “Put another way, given scarce resources, it is better to learn how to swim than how to fight off a shark. Unfortunately, too much police use of force training focuses on fear-based, emotionally-driven preparation for rare “shark attack” type events and ignores the less glamorous task of preparing officers for common, well-known situations that frequently spin out of control and lead to needless injury and death for want of basic physical, mental, and emotional skills”.
- “We can already anticipate the objection to our argument: “learning to swim isn’t enough, you must also be able to fend off sharks!” To be clear, we are not downplaying the need for officers to have the skills to survive rare events such as ambushes. “
- “Rather, we are saying that given the perennial scarcity of training time and resources, agencies need to make difficult but rational decisions about the skills that are most likely to pay the highest dividends in both officer and public safety. Such decisions should consider evidence from LEOKA and other studies showing that with few exceptions, lethal and near-lethal confrontations begin at lower levels of violence. “
- “Based on all of the data that the ADAPT team reviewed, we think that the most effective way to improve officer and public safety is to give officers the skills and confidence to anticipate and mitigate violence in the early stages of high-frequency encounters before events escalate out of control”.
- ADAPT Research Report: The Current State of Police Control and Defensive Tactics Training. Marc Brown, Don Gulla, Margaret Hornor, Brian Lande, Michael O’Neill, Alyssa Pulliam, Trak Silapaduriyang, Joel Suss, Jonathan Wender, and Katelyn Yep.