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Report Recommendation 5.10
Pillar 5: Training and Education
5.10 Report Recommendation: POSTs should require both basic recruit and in-service training on policing in a democratic society. |
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BRPD Alignment
- BRPD’s commitment to justice and integrity is at the heart of our Code of Ethics and the sworn oath each officer takes upon graduation from the Academy: General-Order-107-Code-of-Ethics-Oath-of-Office
- The Procedural Justice tenets of Voice, Fairness, Respect, and Trustworthiness, are taught through BRPD’s Academy Curriculum and In-Service Training Academy Scheduled. This curriculum is modeled to increase officer safety and stress levels, leading to fewer complaints, greater community cooperation, and improved voluntary compliance.
- BRPD’s policy on Bias-Based Policing (General Order 108) General-Order-108-Bias-Based-Profiling fundamentally supports BRPD’s aim to earn public trust.
- BRPD’s Training Academy includes the following sections related to policing in a democratic society:
- History of Law Enforcement – 1 hour
- Orientation to Criminal Justice & LA Criminal Justice System - 2 hour
- Overview of the Criminal Justice Process 1 hour
TOTAL HOURS – 4
- The Court System, Court Cases, & Sources of Rights - 2 hours
- Probable Cause & Reasonable Suspicion - 4 hours
- The Exclusionary Rule – 2 hour
- Stop & Frisk / Stationhouse Detention – 4 hours
- Arrests & Responses to Terrorism – 4 hours
- Search & Seizure of Things – 4 hours
- Vehicle Stops, Searches, and Inventories – 4 hours
- Plain View, Open Fields, Abandonment, and Electronic Surveillance – 4 hours
- Line-ups and other Pre-Trial Identification Procedures – 2 hours
- Confessions & Admissions: Miranda – 4 hours
- Witnesses, Hearsay Rule, Privileged Communications – 4 hours
- Legal Liabilities and Other Consequences of Police Misconduct – 2 hours
- Elements of Criminal Conduct – 24 hours
TOTAL HOURS - 66
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