National Survey of Field Training Programs for Police Officers, 1985-1986 (ICPSR 9350)

Version Date: Jan 12, 2006

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Principal Investigator(s):
Michael S. McCampbell

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09350.v1

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Summary

This national survey of field training programs for police officers contains data gathered from state and local criminal justice agencies regarding the format of their programs, costs of programs, impact on civil liability suits, and other complaints. Topics covered include length of time since the implementation of the program, reasons for initiating the program, objectives of the program, evaluation criteria and characteristics of the program, and number of dismissals based on performance in field training programs. Other topics deal with hours of classroom training, characteristics of field service training officers, and incentives for pursuing this position. Topics pertaining to agency evaluation include impact of program on the number of civil liability complaints, number of successful equal employment opportunity complaints, presence of alternative training such as with a senior officer, and additional classroom training during probation when there is no field training program.

Citation

McCampbell, Michael S. National Survey of Field Training Programs for Police Officers, 1985-1986. [distributor], 2006-01-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09350.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (85-IJ-CX-0039)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

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Time Period(s)

1985-09 -- 1986-08

Date of Collection

1985-09 -- 1986-08
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Sample

A stratified random sample was selected from a list of 588 state and local law enforcement agencies provided by the National Criminal Justice Reference Service.

Universe

Law enforcement agencies in the United States.

Data Source

questionnaires returned by state and local criminal justice agencies

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1990-10-16

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • McCampbell, Michael S. NATIONAL SURVEY OF FIELD TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR POLICE OFFICERS, 1985-1986. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Justice, National Institute of Justice [producer], 1986. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1990. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09350.v1

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 3 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

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Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.