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Ethics training without scenarios is just talking the talk
By PAT ROBINSON, PH.D.
You're scheduled for in-service training next week, and you notice that the first morning is devoted to firearms training. It'll probably be the usual--the chief will come in and go over the policy on deadly force and permissible weaponry, the firearms instructor will discuss the importance of maintaining your weapon, and address causes of malfunctions, and the legal instructor will go over three or four recent cases of officer-involved shootings. Maybe you'll watch a video or spend an hour ... Read more
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25 January 2007
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Best efforts wasted on police
THE best efforts of NSW Police Commissioner Ken Moroney and of Police Training College head, Commander Tony Aldred to crack down on unsatisfactory behaviour and lift standards at the college seem to have counted for little.
For documents released to The Daily Telegraph show an appalling pattern of drunkenness, intimidation, sexual misconduct and even threats of violent crime remain prevalent at the college.
The documents show instances of training staff being found drunk on duty, an instructor demanding sexual favours in return of passing grades, guns going missing, and even one officer who threatened to "start shooting management'' over a transfer dispute.
But if that is not shocking enough, perhaps the most alarming revelation is of the failure rate among trainees attempting the ethics component of their course work.
Of 850 trainees - 750 of whom are about graduate - 500 failed to achieve a mark of 50 per cent in the ethics course.
The pass mark was then dropped to 47 per cent, but 300 recruits still found the challenge beyond them.
Staggeringly, the pass grade was then dropped to 40 per cent - and 100 students still failed to reach the standard.
But perhaps the problem is not with the students but with the college. One former student told The Daily Telegraph that the ethics course had always been regarded as "a joke subject'' of no importance.
Perhaps that attitude may explain some of the problems in the NSW Police Service.
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