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AI’s Role in Law Enforcement: Enhancing Dispatcher Training with Voice-Enabled Technology

AI’s Role in Law Enforcement: Enhancing Dispatcher Training with Voice-Enabled Technology

The future of police communications, and the integration of artificial intelligence in dispatcher training, is becoming more apparent.

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Why Police Academy Directors should focus on Five Simple Questions?
Jim Bueermann, training, police academies, police culture, instruction Chief Jim Bueermann (ret.) Jim Bueermann, training, police academies, police culture, instruction Chief Jim Bueermann (ret.)

Why Police Academy Directors should focus on Five Simple Questions?

Today, we need cops whose core competencies are consistent with organizational values and contemporary views of the true purpose of policing. The formal training of these officers begins in police academies. There are five basic questions each academy director should be asking themselves as they reflect on the nature of the training they are providing.

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The Role of Martial Arts Training for Police Officers
Adam Kaufman, training, martial arts training, use of force training Future Policing Institute staff Adam Kaufman, training, martial arts training, use of force training Future Policing Institute staff

The Role of Martial Arts Training for Police Officers

In the future, cops will probably have access to tools that incapacitate resisting arrestees without hurting them. But those tools don’t exist today, and we are forced, as a first level use-of-force, to resort to putting our hands on them to try and restrain them. The extent to which officers are proficient in the use of “hands-on” techniques directly relates to the reduction of injuries to arrested persons. This is where martial arts-centered defensive tactics comes into play.

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