Download or read book Police Officer Survival in the 21st Century written by Jerry Boyd and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-07 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout our history as a nation, lawmen have been killed in the line of duty. The first recorded police officer death in the United States occurred in 1791. Since that first police officer murder, there have been thousands more, and each of them has prompted some attention to the subject of preventing such acts from occurring. Fast forward to 2016, and it's clear that the problem of police mortality is far from being solved. Today, there is an increased targeting of law enforcement officers, in all corners of this nation, by radical groups which, backed by liberal politicians who lack a conscience, make killing officers a "badge of courage". Police work today is more dangerous than ever before. Thus, the emphasis on officer survival has never been more important.
Download or read book Surviving the Street written by Gerald W. Garner and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2005 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Additional resources for survival reading are listed following the last chapter. Written for the law enforcement student, rookie officer, police supervisor, veteran cop, deputy or trooper, this text repeatedly emphasizes the value of common sense in mastering the threats of the job."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Training the 21st Century Police Officer written by Russell W. Glenn and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2003-08-08 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restructure the LAPD Training Group to allow the centralization of planning; instructor qualification, evaluation, and retention; and more efficient use of resources.
Download or read book Mental Survival written by Edward M. Crispen and published by . This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do some police officers lose their lives in battle while others find ways to survive? Why do some police officers go overboard when fighting with a suspect while others show great restraint and professionalism? Mental Survival explores these questions and reaches deep into the history of our psyche to come up with the answers. While most new training philosophies tend to be futuristic in their attempts to answer these questions, Mental Survival goes back to the beginning to find out what we missed. Mental Survival is a must-read book for police academy instructors, managers, and police officers. Mental Survival explores why we react the way we do under high stress, our belief system and its role in our survivability, our basic training of police officers, management's responsibility in a police officer's survival, and the impact that society's perceptions about police has on our ability to win a battle. Mental Survival has been a journey through my life while trying to correlate events around me with my own perceptions about survival. This book is written from my perspective as the author, and how my experiences helped me understand my survivability as well as my weaknesses and failures in attempting to reach a level whereby I could pass the lessons I learned to others so they may not repeat them. As I sat and watched a video clip from CNN showing two police officers wrestling with a man who was passively resisting, I couldn't help but view the scene as surreal. Here we were in the year 2002, literally hundreds of years of law enforcement experience, and we were still responding to violence the same archaic way.
Download or read book HIGH RISK PATROL written by Gerald W. Garner and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exceptional new third edition, the author has retained much of the practical "everyone goes home" approach as in previous editions, but adds depth and potentially lifesaving information to keep the police officer safe and secure. The book provides a general orientation for survival, and details the specifics the intelligent police professional must master in order to survive the many types of risky situations he will be exposed to over a career. The book is painstakingly thorough in its approach to officer survival in an era where peacekeepers are required to be highly transparent and accountable in all of their actions. Every use of force by a law enforcement officer will be closely scrutinized. This is one reason why it is important that today's officer has access to every viable tactic and technique that may prevent the need for force in the first place. The book details everything from searching an arrested individual to searching a building; arresting a 300-pound outlaw biker to a surly teenager. Techniques and strategies discussed in the book include personal preparation for risk reduction, vehicle stops and contacts, defusing disturbances, domestic violence, burglaries and structure searches, barricades and hostage-takers, vehicle pursuits, ambush attacks, emotionally disturbed and mentally ill persons, prisoner control and transport, terrorist threats, off-duty confrontations, and reducing the emotional risks involved. At the end of each vital chapter, a quick and concise "Risk Reduction Checklist" is presented. These chapter summaries are excellent for review and merit rereading by the police professional intent on surviving to a healthy retirement. An Appendix has been included containing informative accounts of police deaths, culled from the "Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted Report" put together by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Other accounts are also found at the end of each chapter. Each one makes a point by way of grim example, yet every tragedy described can help save the life of an alert police officer who might otherwise become one more statistic. This unique and comprehensive text will be invaluable to all law enforcement professionals, investigators, policymakers, and police academics.
Download or read book The Will to Live five Steps to Officer Survival written by Gerald W. Boyd and published by Charles C Thomas Pub Limited. This book was released on 1980 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the tenet that survival is primarily the police officer's responsibility, this text discusses the five basic components of the officer survival system. The beginning chapter defines the survival attitude, describes how this attitude is related to officer survival, and discusses the survival attitude as a self-fulfilling prophecy in which a person's beliefs tend to subconsciously affect that person's behavior. Physical conditioning and its importance for self-defense is examined, and recommendations are made for a physical fitness program and for mandatory standards for officer fitness. Other chapters give an overview of the technological progress and recent advances in protective equipment for law enforcement officers and emphasize the need for ongoing, practical, job-related training, including problem simulation and training within smaller agencies. Survival tactics ranging from use of secondary weapons to proper search and traffic stop procedures are discussed. A final chapter describes some particular survival problems of plainclothes personnel and recommendations for improvement.
Download or read book Death Work written by Vincent E. Henry and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through extensive field observation and structured interviews with NYPD officers, Henry reveals patterns of psychological transformation and social consequences of police encounters with death.
Download or read book A Street Survival Guide for Public Safety Officers written by Daniel Rudofossi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expansion of Dr. Rudofossi's theory of Police and Public Safety Complex Trauma, this text integrates other models of trauma and loss into a one-of-a-kind intervention model. It offers insider perspectives from police psychologists, police managers, and clinicians describing what police personnel experience on the job, along with expert intervent
Download or read book Supervising Police Employees in the Twenty First Century written by Gerald W. Garner and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2019 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To carry out their wide array of vital duties supervisors require a whole toolbox of complex skills. This handbook was created with the purpose of supplying or, where already present, strengthening those skills. Assembled by a veteran police chief who served 15 years as a first-line supervisor, the book provides practical "how to" advice for confronting and mastering the multiple challenges of the first-line supervisor's life. Chances are, you are already a good leader. This handbook will make you better. It contains the information you will need to succeed as decision-maker, tactician, trainer, counselor, disciplinarian, and officer safety expert. It will help you accurately to evaluate your employees' job performance, serve as an integral part of the leadership team, and lead your people to deliver exceptional customer service. It will, in sum, serve as a true handbook for leadership success. As you doubtlessly have figured out for yourself, today's law enforcement employees are by no means identical in personality or work style to their predecessors of even a decade ago. But they are good people with outstanding potential. They, along with their more senior colleagues, are waiting for a great leader to bring out their best. That leader should be you. This handbook will equip today's capable first-line leader to excel in his or her vital role of influencing the future of policing. Surely nothing is more vital to an increasingly complex and too-often-troubled society.
Download or read book The New Guardians written by Cedric L. Alexander and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Guardians: Policing in America's Communities for the 21st Century embodies nearly forty years of experience in law enforcement in addition to a career in clinical psychology. In search of a better way to police our nation, Dr. Cedric L. Alexander takes us back some 200 years to the Constitution-and then some 2,400 to Plato's Republic-and shows us how to remodel the warrior cop into the Guardian at the heart of community policing. Amid today's explosion of homicide in our most-challenged neighborhoods and the bid of international terrorism for the allegiance of marginalized youth everywhere, healing wounded relations between the police and the people has never been more urgent. This is the story of one man's quiet, courageous leadership. Cedric L. Alexander entered law enforcement in 1977, as a deputy sheriff in Leon County, Florida, on the brink of profound transformations in America and American policing. In many cities, the nation was in civil war, the police on one side, the community on the other. Wars are about winning by inflicting defeat. As a young deputy, Alexander saw that unending combat was destroying police-community relations. He devoted the next four decades to creating something new and something better. His background combines a long career as a deputy, a police officer, and a detective in the Tallahassee area, in Orlando, and in Miami-Dade, Florida, with a career in clinical psychology, both as a practitioner and an assistant professor at the University of Rochester (New York). He holds a Doctorate of Clinical Psychology from Wright State University (Dayton, Ohio) and provided senior-level administrative and clinical leadership of mental health services within the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, with special emphasis on counseling police officers, firefighters, and their families. He served as Deputy Chief and then as Chief of Police of the Rochester Police Department and subsequently was appointed Deputy Commissioner in the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services before joining the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as Federal Security Director for Dallas/ Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). In 2013, Dr. Alexander was appointed Chief of Police for DeKalb County and, at the end of the year, became Deputy Chief Operating Officer/Public Safety Director. About the Author Cedric L. Alexander, Psy.D., is Director of Public Safety and Deputy Chief Operating Officer, DeKalb County Office of Public Safety, responsible for leading the Police and Fire Departments in the second-largest county in the metro-Atlanta area. He has served as President of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) and was appointed in 2015 to the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing. Dr. Alexander has appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe, CBS Evening News, ABC World News with Diane Sawyer, and NBC Nightly News, and has have written numerous opinion editorials for CNN, for which he is an on-air Law Enforcement Analyst.
Download or read book Force Under Pressure written by Lawrence N. Blum and published by Lantern Books. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Force Under Pressure, Dr. Lawrence Blum, who has devoted his life's work to the survival and wellness of "those who serve," describes the sources of danger, injuries, and victory to police officers in a down-to-earth, readable style. Blum argues that there are missing "ingredients" in the training and socialization of police officers. These ingredients include techniques and tools to condition the officer's decision-making and concentration during conditions of emergency; internal controls necessary to maintain the will to survive; and aids that will prevent officers being defeated by any threat. Distressing and/or disturbing physical and psychological reactions are common in a police officer's workday, and the officer must be prepared for them. Blum's work has uncovered many of the casues of compromise to officer safety and wellness, and he contends that police officers will be well prepared to cope with unanticipated or rapidly changing encounters if they possess the right tools and the know-how to command and control field encounters and life's pressures. Here Blum provides practical tools for survival in law enforcement, by combining his clinical knowledge with true stories of police officers for an attention-grabbing and informative book.
Download or read book Spiritual Survival for Law Enforcement written by Cary A. Friedman and published by Compass Books. This book was released on 2005-06-15 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to provide spiritual fortification for officers who are faced with a barrage of experiences in the course of their careers which challenge their most deeply held personal beliefs. It comes with exercises, tools, and insights to restore inner peace and clarity.
Download or read book Plainclothes and Off Duty Officer Survival written by John C. Cheek and published by . This book was released on 1988-11-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book For Security Personnel OFFICER SURVIVAL SKILLS 2020 written by Mursel Sevindik and published by Mursel Sevindik. This book was released on 2020-04-05 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers Officer Survival Skills issues for law enforcement officer. The goal is to develop the law enforcement officer's understanding of officer survival for the safe and efficient performance of their duty. The majority of police officers duties become routine, though the potential for danger is always present. The duties of the officer require them to enforce laws, and to control the illegal actions of certain citizens. Survival techniques, if properly applied, provide the officer an opportunity to overcome the resistive behavior of subjects. These techniques also provide officers with self-confidence, which is needed to "win". When an officer uses force, peers, the public, the media, the government and the world review that actions. If the officer applies inappropriate force, it reflects poorly on the individual and gives a non-professional appearance to the entire force. The officer is subject to legal limitations. When the officer is faced with a violent situation, it is required that he make decisions in a fraction of a second. He may have to justify his actions in court. Therefore, proper defensive tactics training provides the officer with the tools required not only to apply the proper techniques, but also to decide the proper level of force necessary to overcome resistance. This will obviously enhance officer survivability, insure proper performance during the situation, and justification in court. Topics and techniques presented in this book will be of both great interest and great value to trainers and students of law enforcement.
Download or read book Surviving Street Patrol written by Steve Albrecht and published by Paladin Press. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, veteran San Diego Police Officer Steve Albrecht advises fellow officers of proactive measures they can take on a routine basis to improve their odds of going home in one piece. Whatever the challenge at hand, be it handcuffing noncompliant suspects, preventing suspect escapes, surviving group attacks, fighting on the ground, dodging bullets, protecting homicide scenes or dealing with the media, Albrecht has time-tested advice for handling it safely and effectively. In addition, on topics such as managing meth freaks; responding to domestic violence calls; avoiding AIDS, TB and other killers during searches; attending to the elderly; investigating rapes; and more, he offers invaluable insight on balancing compassion and integrity with aggressive, professional policing. This book will serve as a valuable learning tool for those street cops who, regardless of the size of their beat, agency, county or city, are out there on the front lines every day, putting their lives on the line while trying to do the right thing.
Download or read book Officer Survival written by New South Wales Police Academy. Special Training Section. Officer Survival Unit and published by . This book was released on 1985* with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Armor Your Self written by John Marx and published by Law Enforcement Survival Institute, LLC. This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book to help law enforcement professionals and their families survive the hidden dangers, traumas and stresses of a career in law enforcement
