Roundtable: Twenty-First Century Police Training Academy Curriculum

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

Most police academy training curriculum is outdated and based on twenty-five year old terminal objectives. Providing our police officers with the proper tools to do their jobs does not only consist of guns, Tasers, body cameras, and technologically advanced equipment. Policing today is not the same as it was twenty years ago. If we are going to provide them with the proper tools to do their job, this must first start with their academy training. This roundtable discussion hopes to elicit from practitioners and academics what this new-age police academy training should look like and consist of.

Sub Unit

• Area XIII: Roundtable Sessions

Individual Presentations

• Twenty-First Century Police Training Academy Curriculum - Hamin Shabazz, Stevenson University

• Policing in the 21st Century - Charles Ubah, Georgia College & State University

• New Age Police Training Curriculum - Evaristus Obinyan, Albany State University

Chair

• Hamin Shabazz, Stevenson University

Discussants

• Charles Ubah, Georgia College & State University

• Evaristus Obinyan, Albany State University

• Charles Ochie, Albany State University, Albany, Georgia

• Patrick Ibe, Albany State University

• Jovita Esechie, Texas Southern University

• John Penny, Southern University of New Orleans

• Sunday Anandi, Southern University at Baton Rouge