Most people who are foreign to the concept of modern law enforcement training believe that training for new officers ends when they graduate from the police academy (Warners, 2010). For at least the last forty years this has not been the case (Warners, 2010). The police academy is certainly a very important aspect of a new officers’ career. Reaves (1990) stated that the average police recruit receives approximately 402 hours of training in the police academy (Daly, 2004). The classroom training that recruit officers receive should be challenging, modern, and begin to prepare them for their new career in the law enforcement field. However, the majority of professional law enforcement organizations have also recognized the need to require new
