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AUG 2017

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www.officer.com AUGUST 2017 LAW ENFORCEMENT TECHNOLOGY 15 ■ Refer candidates to other departments. All departments get filled up or experience cut backs and hiring freezes. If you have situations like this, then refer candidates to other departments such as emergency medicine, fire departments, investigators, or other LE support roles. A candidate you refer may refer others to you or come back themselves. Additional training Even with a background rich in skill sets for law enforcement, there are areas that a military veteran candidate will need additional training on and emphasis to be successful. ■ Special department emphasis. Every LE department has its own areas of special emphasis and how it polices its respective territory, how it interacts with the local community, and any unique criminal challenges to the area. These will all have to be taught, over- emphasized or even re-taught to a new candidate. They may be second nature to long serving department members, but these skills need to be taught to all. ■ Community interaction role playing. Military veterans from the Mid-East are used to role playing exercises how to interact with members of the Syrian, Iraqi, or Afghan population. This training technique needs to be copied but it needs to be retrained to the standards of how the local LE department interacts with its community. A military veteran will know the vital importance of community interaction, but they will need guidelines and role play training how to do it in a method that supports the local LE department objectives. ■ Evidence preservation. The gathering, preservation, protection, and chain of custody laws governing evidence will be completely unknown to most military veterans. This is a critical element of how LE supports prosecutions and it will be worth additional training time to bring military veteran LE candidates up to speed to department and legal standards. ■ Incorporation of actions with legal guidelines. Military personnel are trained to a standard to execute a task with speed, precision, and violence of action. Candidates will need to have reinforcement training how to perform law enforcement tasks within the legal guidelines and regulations of their law enforcement roles. This will be a learn- ing point for military veterans. They will need to understand the critical importance of performing their LE roles within the laws and regulations that govern their jobs. Circle 12 on Reader Service Card

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