mportant topics that officers need to consider when training are: communication skills, logical thinking and deductive reasoning, self assurance training, community organization and stimulus, negotiation skills, and resources available in the community and the methods of making referrals. Learning these qualities during training will help an officer gain the ability to work effectively in a community, and in any given situation. In academic training, community police officers along with other officers, learn about many different issues. A few examples include, sociology, criminology, psychology, communication skills, and computer science. These topics allow an officer to have a better understanding of people, crime, society, and technology.In dealing with the community on a daily basis, officers may experience difficult situations that may lead to stress. Therefore, it is understood that a degree of stress should be placed on aspiring officers to measure and evaluate their resolve, courage, approach, tactics, restraint, ethics, and common sense. These new officers must go into the community under the supervision of a field training officer to exercise independent action and demonstrate the ability to deal with a myriad of problems (Champion 135). With proper training, officers are provided with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to be successful in a community.In the future, community policing has hopes for bright ideas and stronger communities. However, in order for these hopes to become a reality community police officers need to make changes as the society changes. An effort has been made to highlight some issues viewed as central to our ability to police such as changing society. It is vital that law enforcement administrators understand that:*Powerful dynamics are transfiguring virtually every facet of American Society*The forces that are recasting social institutions will also alter law enforcement organizations*As ...
