According to the book description of Does your Local Police Department
Represent the Community it Serves, "service to the community means
involvement, commitment, and engagement with the entire community, and that
includes all of the parts, including police, fire schools, merchants, etc.
Providing some law enforcement education to citizens about the total service
mission of police work should be a goal for every police agency. Ensuring good
service to the community means careful recruitment and personnel selection, for
officers who will develop a prime focus on service first-service always.
Training those carefully selected personnel on current case decisions, tactics,
equipment, effective involvement in community affairs is service first and
service always, and engaging all members of the community in serving each other
is great service for the community. Having officers use their interpersonal
skills in developing and maintaining good relationships with all is a service
that a community will not forget."
According to the book description of Suicide Terrorism: It's only a
matter of when and how well prepared are America's Law Enforcement officers,
"Since September 11th, Americas decision makers have examined issues related to
training as it pertains to emergency responders to a suicide bombing incident,
relationships between communities with police, and homeland security initiatives
with local law enforcement departments.
Current training practices and training focuses on the influence that emergency
responder organizational structures and administrative factors have on terrorism
response preparedness among local agencies, but few studies have systematically
measured these impacts or share information on lessons learned.
A review of the research indicates that training could be enhanced if future
training promotes a better understanding of case studies of similar suicide
bombing incidents and structural characteristics of local active terrorist
groups by examining all ideologically motivated crimes, regardless of whether
they are also defined as a terrorist.
The conclusion discusses how training could be enhanced by strategically
integrating the existing knowledge base across all levels within emergency
responders, as well as detailed knowledge of the nature and extent of the threat
posed by suicide bombing extremists."
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