The education of police executives has been a priority of criminal justice agencies for more than 40 years to address the need to professionalize law enforcement in America. Since the 1980s, programs for this purpose have existed, one of which is the California POST Command College. Command College is an academically oriented executive development program intended to “invest in the future” as its students – mid-career police managers – acquire the tools and skills necessary to be promoted to executive positions. This paper aims to answer the question, “Does the Command College achieve its intended goals?”,A survey instrument was used to obtain perspectives of recent graduates and of those who had graduated from the program more than four years before the survey. An assessment of the frequency of promotions to command and executive roles was completed, and an external academic assessment of the program’s curriculum was completed by a university.,Support for the program by graduates increased over time, graduates were promoted at a rate of three times higher than baseline averages for police managers and the program’s curriculum was vetted as being equivalent to graduate-level courses at the university level.,As its value is validated through this assessment, others can learn how they might better prepare their police executives for the future. No similar law enforcement program has been similarly assessed, so others may also learn ways to ensure they are achieving their intended outcomes from this example. Given the differences in other law enforcement leadership programs in terms of student selection and specific goals, direct comparisons would be limited, both by the program differences and the research design used by others as they work to validate their success in meeting their goals.,Although law enforcement executive education has existed since 1935, and leadership training programs for the police since 1982, no research has been conducted to validate the outcomes and impact of such programs on the graduates of such programs and their agencies.

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指挥学院–有远见作为警察行政管理发展的基础

过去40多年来，对警察高管的教育一直是刑事司法机构的优先工作，以解决美国执法专业化的需求。自1980年代以来，为此目的而存在的计划已经存在，其中之一就是加利福尼亚邮电指挥学院。Command College是一个以学术为导向的行政人员发展计划，旨在“在未来投资”，因为其学生（职业中期警察经理）掌握了晋升至行政职位所需的工具和技能。本文旨在回答“指挥学院是否达到了预期的目标？”这一问题，使用了一种调查工具来获取最近毕业生以及在调查之前四年以上从该计划中毕业的人的观点。已完成对晋升为指挥官和执行官的频率的评估，并且由一所大学完成了对该计划课程的外部学术评估。随着时间的推移，毕业生对该计划的支持有所增加，毕业生的升职率为三倍高于基线水平的警务人员，该课程的课程被认为与大学水平的研究生课程相当。通过评估评估其价值，其他人可以学习他们如何为将来的警官做更好的准备。没有类似的执法计划得到类似的评估，因此其他人也可以从该示例中学习确保自己实现预期结果的方法。