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here to edit your answer. Words: 0 "Police Corps," a military-style police academy, has been employed in some U.S. cities. The cadets of the mentally exhausting 6-month program eat, sleep, and live together in rooms near the academy with no televisions and with the constant threat of surprise inspections. Their days involve marching in military formation with a platoon leader barking out cadences, weight lifting, and classes on self-defense as well as law and criminal procedure. Afternoons are spent at the firing range, where they train with pistols, MP-5 submachine guns, and AR-15 assault rifles. After ending their days at 10 P.M. with little or no time for themselves to relax or study, they are occasionally awakened at 2 A.M. as instructors push them for practice in high-speed driving and patrolling tactics. At some point in the course, the cadets are put through 24 to 72 hours of sleep deprivation to teach them the effects of stress and lack of sleep on their bodies. The punishment for not following orders correctly is pushups. Supporters of the style maintain that the Navy SEAL–type training will help officers become more disciplined and community-oriented. Critics contend that the program is too extreme and isn’t necessary for a community police force, that it “isn’t needed in our society unless we’re in a warfare environment.” What are the pros and cons of this military-style police academy training?

Answer 1

Here the primary question is whether the city police need to go through military - style training.

Lets first look in general why we need to have a training program for a job. Every job requires a set of knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA) and when organization hire people, there is always gap between desire KSA and actual KSA. Organization conduct training program to bridge this gap.

When it comes to city police their job include dealing with lot of uncertain situations like terrorist strike, riot, robbery, hostage situation, natural calamities and many more. They should be able to deal with such situation both mentally and physically. So these exhaustive training methods prepare them for such difficult situation. There are situations where they really have to stay at crime scene for hours or even days and such training definitely prepare them for the same.

Pros of military style police academy training:

- Make them physically and mentally strong

- Thorough knowledge of law and criminal procedure

- Expert in usage of arms and ammunition

- Diving skills & patrolling tactics

- Well organize with command structure, distribution of forces, care of injured, arrested subjects

Cons of military style police academy training:

- Their routine job deals with average citizen and not these terrorist and average citizen expect friendly approach where as these training make them tough

- They should not use military tactics with innocent people