Discussion: Training and Authority

Discussion: Training and Authority

Explain how training enforces ideas about authority and rank structure.

The reason officers need training is to understand what is known as chain of command.

The officers must understand how this goes. The officer must understand that they have a

supervisor along with the everyone else. Even the supervisor themselves must answer to

someone that is above them (Brandl, 2018). The Police department’s structure has some of the

same characteristics of the military because of this they are known as quasi-military. The similar

features of this is that you have uniform police who carries weapons and has similar ranking

when it comes to their officers and the structure of command is carried out the same way.

Explain why it is important to establish and maintain this type of authority in modern law

enforcement.

The importance to establish and maintain this type of authority in modern law

enforcement is not only for the functioning of each department, but also rules are needed for the

guideline of the role of the officers. The proper authority is supposed to be in place to help

manage the policies written for the department regarding how things should be operating

(Brandl, 2018).

Recommend ways in which training could create more adaptability in law enforcement.

I think that with everything that happening today that is surrounding the way that law

enforcement is carried out. The ways in which training could help more adaptability in law

enforcement is that the whoever is in charge of training will need to implement some mandatory

on the job training dealing with every situation to prepare the officers for situations. I think that

the reason some situations end the way they do is because it maybe a situation that an officer is

trying to figure out under extreme pressure and has to make a choice sometimes it maybe the

wrong choice but a choice has to be made.

Reference:

Brandl, S. G. (2018). Police in America. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. Chapter 3,

“The Characteristics and Structure of Police Organizations (pp. 38-67)