Protecting the Republic
The Education & Training of American Police Officers
Published on 5. January 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-13-097778-6 (ISBN)
Description
For introductory courses in Law Enforcement, American Government; and graduate seminars on Public Policy.
This practical text provides an insightful, real, and detailed analysis of police education and training. Its author, Dr. James O'Keefe, successfully ran the largest police academy in the world for ten years (N.Y.P.D.), and comprehensively looks at the logic, structure, and actual course content police offers should be studying to effectively meet and manage the complex challenges of the 21st century. His book addresses critical issues in law enforcement education, discusses why police officers do the things they do, advocates the need of elected officials in local and state government to understand how their police officials should be educated and trained, and explains the need for a "standard of training."
This practical text provides an insightful, real, and detailed analysis of police education and training. Its author, Dr. James O'Keefe, successfully ran the largest police academy in the world for ten years (N.Y.P.D.), and comprehensively looks at the logic, structure, and actual course content police offers should be studying to effectively meet and manage the complex challenges of the 21st century. His book addresses critical issues in law enforcement education, discusses why police officers do the things they do, advocates the need of elected officials in local and state government to understand how their police officials should be educated and trained, and explains the need for a "standard of training."
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Content
Introduction.
1. Who Should Protect the Republic?
2. Educating and Training Police Officers: Building the Form and Function.
3. Educating and Training New Police Officers: Teaching Police Science.
4. Educating and Training New Police Officers: Teaching the Law.
5. Educating and Training New Police Officers: Teaching the Behavioral Sciences.
6. Educating and Training New Police Officers: Teaching Physical Education.
7. Educating and Training New Police Officers: Teaching Firearms and the Use of Force.
8. A Field Training Model for New Police Officers.
9. Educating and Training In-Service Police Officers: Building an In-Service Model.
10. Training Police Supervisors and Managers.
11. A Model for Executive Development in Law Enforcement.
12. Building a Law Enforcement Organization to Sustain a Free Republic.
1. Who Should Protect the Republic?
2. Educating and Training Police Officers: Building the Form and Function.
3. Educating and Training New Police Officers: Teaching Police Science.
4. Educating and Training New Police Officers: Teaching the Law.
5. Educating and Training New Police Officers: Teaching the Behavioral Sciences.
6. Educating and Training New Police Officers: Teaching Physical Education.
7. Educating and Training New Police Officers: Teaching Firearms and the Use of Force.
8. A Field Training Model for New Police Officers.
9. Educating and Training In-Service Police Officers: Building an In-Service Model.
10. Training Police Supervisors and Managers.
11. A Model for Executive Development in Law Enforcement.
12. Building a Law Enforcement Organization to Sustain a Free Republic.