Training Reform Must Start in the Academy

There are ways to improve academy training to promote desired learning outcomes that transfer to real-world encounters.

"...training for stress management, compassion and the regulation of emotions is a component that is sorely needed in policing. An officer who goes to a child abuse call one minute and a barking dog complaint the next needs a mechanism to buffer the trauma of the first from the triviality of the second. Mindfulness training can be that answer."

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To read the full article written by Brian N. O'Donnell for Police1, click here.