ABSTRACT

There is abundant literature focusing on current police officers, but there is a need to turn the focus towards police academies and training programmes to better understand how the relationship between policing and danger is perpetuated. If there is any hope for changes in police practices, it must begin with the induction, socialisation, and professionalisation of new police officers. Drawing on months of participant observation at a Pre-Employment Police Basic Training Program, this article presents how police training programmes create and work to normalise a sense of precarity and insecurity for aspiring police officers. This article contributes to a broader discussion about police and police training by examining how this particular form of police training produces and re-produces a sense of precariousness and danger in police work. Through the data gathered, this article offers an example of how police training programmes incite fear and suspicion among recruits, while also providing a glimpse of the socialisation process that happens in the training of police officers.

摘要

有大量关于现任警察的文献，但有必要将重点转向警察学院和培训计划，以更好地了解警务与危险之间的关系是如何长期存在的。如果希望改变警察的做法，就必须从新警察的入职、社会化和职业化开始。本文借鉴了在职前警察基础培训计划中的几个月参与者观察，介绍了警察培训计划如何创建和运作，使有抱负的警察的不稳定感和不安全感正常化。本文通过研究这种特殊形式的警察培训如何在警察工作中产生和重新产生不稳定感和危险感，从而有助于对警察和警察培训进行更广泛的讨论。