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Continuing Education for Law Enforcement Officers
Continuing Education for Law Enforcement Officers
Ruben Castellon
L24561605
Liberty University
2012 CJUS300-D04 LUO

Continuing Education for Law Enforcement Officers
Since the inception of my military career to my present law enforcement profession, it has always been evident that training (quality) and/or continuing higher education has been paramount to producing a professional Law Enforcement Officer (LEO) – “the future leaders” of our Criminal Justice (CJ) system. Key to the success of any LEO’s quality training or higher education is the head administrator, in law enforcement it would be the Chief Executive Officer (CEO); also known as Police Chief or Sheriff. Unfortunately once this leader becomes the CEO he or she soon forgets the staff – “middle managers: Captains and lieutenants, first-line supervisors: the patrol sergeant” (Peak, 2010, pp. 100-101), and of course let’s not forget about the files: the “worker bees” (as I like to call them). Many contributing factors can be provided for the lack (my opinion) of initiative on behalf of the CEO, but for this purpose only two will be mentioned: greed and lack of knowledge. I will also concentrate only with my state – North Carolina. In addition, my references will be various and from different states. Currently the State of North Carolina has two training & standards: the North Carolina Sheriff’s Education and training Standards Commission and the Criminal Justice Education & training Standards Commission” (Cooper, 2012). These two commissions could be strongest when unified, thus implementing better training and continuing education to include better ideals for risk management for the LEO. This would further enable the CEO with more political power when lobbing for budgetary issues with regards to the training/education of the LEOs, etc.

By unifying both commissions and becoming one with an equal amount of members – 50 percent Sheriffs and the other half of Police Chiefs, all having


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