Crossing the Chasm: Reforming Police Training for Today’s Economic Reality

Sandy Sweet
President, Canadian Police Knowledge Network

Sandy Sweet President, Canadian Police Knowledge NetworkIn an adverse economy, it’s understood that compromises must be made.  In policing, training budgets are often among the first and hardest hit.  Though this may provide some short-term relief, it’s contrary to the interests of both officer and public wellbeing.  But there are alternatives. Technology-supported learning is a bridge between destructive compromise and constructive innovation.  The real challenge lies in crossing the chasm.

 

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The insider threat: see something, say something

By Martin Smith

 

Rogue Trader, Nick Leeson, prior to fall of Bearings

 

The consequences of an organisation falling victim to rogue insider behaviour were seen in no uncertain terms earlier this year, when news broke that Swiss banking giant UBS had uncovered unauthorised trading by a member of staff, producing losses – at the time of going to press – of some $2.3bn (£1.5bn). UBS was quick to assure its customers that “no client positions were affected” but confidence in the bank’s reputation was clearly harmed, judging by the immediate 7% fall in its shares.

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Educating at the Coalface: ICT and work-based learning

By Dr Alan Bruce

 

Living in a time of sustained change and crisis is something to which we are now becoming accustomed. While change and crisis are the staple elements involved in security and emergency contexts, they are not issues associated as standard in everyday life. The traumas of recent times, however, are a powerful reminder of cyclical patterns of growth, recession and transformation in the socio-economic universe we inhabit.

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Training for Total Control in African Skies

By Andrew Rosthorn

 

 

The doomed planes have ranged from the old Czech-built Let L-410 Turbolet workhorse that crashed at Bandundu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2010, killing 20 people after a smuggled crocodile broke loose in the cabin, to a new Kenya Airways Boeing 737-800 that crashed into a Cameroon mangrove swamp after a midnight takeoff in bad weather at Douala, killing all 114 passengers and crew in 2007.

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The need for a comprehensive methodology for profiling cyber-criminals

By Hemamali Tennakoon

 

 

Society, crime, and punishment are some of the universal concepts in human history dating back to the middle ages and even further. From then until now, the meaning of crime and criminal behaviour has changed dramatically. Theories defining criminal behaviour are abundant. For instance, ‘Conflict Theory’ sees criminal behaviour as the result of a clash between social classes or conflicts arising due to power distance.

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U.S. Intelligence train with videogames

American intelligence agents have made their share of bad calls: the fall of the Berlin Wall, Iraq’s nuclear cache and chronic missteps in Afghanistan are only a few. So in the hopes of honing analysts’ predictive abilities, the spy guys are introducing a new training tactic: videogames.

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Pakistan Taliban declares truce

An anonymous Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan commander told the AP that the group had declared a nation-wide ceasefire in support of ongoing peace talks with the country's government, while Pakistan's military denied reports Tuesday that talks were taking place.

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Illegal foreign purchase of weapons

Hundreds of foreigners and dual-citizens are in Canada with the purpose of creating front companies to procure weapons parts and technologies that they then export to their home countries. And they often go unpunished.

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Dagestan: don't book it, or Thomas Cook it

The republic of Dagestan on the Caspian Sea that is the most explosive place in Russia - and in Europe. There are bomb attacks almost daily, shootouts between police and militants, tales of torture and of people going missing.

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