Police and Society Chapter 5 Exam
2025 Questions and Answers
Police Training - ANSWER✔✔-Training
Provision of basic skills necessary to do the job
Education
Providing familiarity with the concepts and principles underlying the training
Police Training - ANSWER✔✔-• Police work requires a combination of effective,
relevant training as well as completion of higher education coursework.
• Educators and trainers are needed to build a bridge over the chasm that currently
separates higher-education and university criminal-justice programs from police
training
Police Training - ANSWER✔✔-Policing - difficult and complex career:
Called on to play psychiatrist, doctor, lawyer, judge, jury, priest, counselor, fighter, and
dogcatcher.
Police skills - ANSWER✔✔-Police Officers Must:
,Be experts in interpersonal communications
Possess intimate knowledge of counseling and crisis intervention strategies
Be able to defuse potentially volatile situations
Police Training - ANSWER✔✔-• Since 1989 both the duration and variety of topics
covered in police training centers throughout the United States have increased
• Proper training boosts officer performance, reduces agency liability for poor
performance, and mitigates community aversion to the presence of law enforcement
Police Training - ANSWER✔✔-How much training should be done?
Who should do it?
What should the content of the training be?
What form should it take?
How can training be used to benefit officers and the citizens they serve?
How effective is the training received?
Police Training - ANSWER✔✔-How much training is enough?
Police officers can never have enough training.
A career-long commitment.
In-service training is one of the cornerstones of professionalism and keeps police
officers current.
, Evidenced by the increase in the use of computers for communication, forensics, crime
analysis, and so on.
Types of Training - ANSWER✔✔-Basic Recruit Training
Field Training
In-service Training
Specialized Training
Basic Training - ANSWER✔✔-The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) (2009) reported the
following:
As of the end of 2006, there were 648 police training facilities offering basic recruit
training.
Basic training programs averaged 19 weeks in length.
Topics with the most instruction included firearms, self-defense, health and fitness,
patrol procedures, investigations, emergency vehicle operations, criminal law, and basic
first aid.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (Continued) - ANSWER✔✔-Of the approximately 57,000
police recruits who entered the basic training program in 2005, 86%, or 49,000,
graduated from the academy.
2025 Questions and Answers
Police Training - ANSWER✔✔-Training
Provision of basic skills necessary to do the job
Education
Providing familiarity with the concepts and principles underlying the training
Police Training - ANSWER✔✔-• Police work requires a combination of effective,
relevant training as well as completion of higher education coursework.
• Educators and trainers are needed to build a bridge over the chasm that currently
separates higher-education and university criminal-justice programs from police
training
Police Training - ANSWER✔✔-Policing - difficult and complex career:
Called on to play psychiatrist, doctor, lawyer, judge, jury, priest, counselor, fighter, and
dogcatcher.
Police skills - ANSWER✔✔-Police Officers Must:
,Be experts in interpersonal communications
Possess intimate knowledge of counseling and crisis intervention strategies
Be able to defuse potentially volatile situations
Police Training - ANSWER✔✔-• Since 1989 both the duration and variety of topics
covered in police training centers throughout the United States have increased
• Proper training boosts officer performance, reduces agency liability for poor
performance, and mitigates community aversion to the presence of law enforcement
Police Training - ANSWER✔✔-How much training should be done?
Who should do it?
What should the content of the training be?
What form should it take?
How can training be used to benefit officers and the citizens they serve?
How effective is the training received?
Police Training - ANSWER✔✔-How much training is enough?
Police officers can never have enough training.
A career-long commitment.
In-service training is one of the cornerstones of professionalism and keeps police
officers current.
, Evidenced by the increase in the use of computers for communication, forensics, crime
analysis, and so on.
Types of Training - ANSWER✔✔-Basic Recruit Training
Field Training
In-service Training
Specialized Training
Basic Training - ANSWER✔✔-The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) (2009) reported the
following:
As of the end of 2006, there were 648 police training facilities offering basic recruit
training.
Basic training programs averaged 19 weeks in length.
Topics with the most instruction included firearms, self-defense, health and fitness,
patrol procedures, investigations, emergency vehicle operations, criminal law, and basic
first aid.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (Continued) - ANSWER✔✔-Of the approximately 57,000
police recruits who entered the basic training program in 2005, 86%, or 49,000,
graduated from the academy.
