
CMPS Staff
Training Reform Must Start in the Academy
Updated: Dec 19, 2022
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."
To read the full article written by Brian N. O'Donnell for Police1, click here.