ABSTRACT

In recent years, there have been efforts to enhance traditional warrior-oriented police academy training with guardian law enforcement curricula that include a focus on building skills related to empathy, respect, and understanding in police-community interactions. Little is known about how officer characteristics influence training effects. Of particular importance, prior studies have not examined the role of personality traits on elements of police law enforcement training that focus on empathy in police-community interactions. This study used a pre-post survey design to examine the relationship between personality traits and police training effects among new recruits in an evaluation of guardian training at the Basic Law Enforcement Academy (BLEA) in Washington State (n = 344). Results indicate that personality traits associated with lack of empathy, as measured by the Self-Report Psychopathy-Short Form (SRP-SF), moderate the effects of training on negative police subculture and guardianship-empathy, with recruits scoring higher on the SRP-SF demonstrating less change (e.g., training effects) within these domains. Implications for police training and discussion of the assessment of personality traits in pre-employment police candidate screening are discussed.

摘要

近年来，一直在努力通过监护人执法课程来加强传统的以战士为导向的警察学院培训，其中包括重点培养与警察与社区互动中的同理心、尊重和理解相关的技能。关于军官特征如何影响训练效果知之甚少。特别重要的是，之前的研究没有考察人格特质对警察执法培训要素的作用，这些要素侧重于警察与社区互动中的同理心。本研究采用事前事后调查设计，在华盛顿州基本执法学院 (BLEA) 的监护人培训评估中，考察新警员的人格特质与警察培训效果之间的关系 ( n = 344). 结果表明，与缺乏同理心相关的人格特质，通过自我报告精神病短表（SRP-SF）衡量，缓和了培训对负面警察亚文化和监护同理心的影响，新兵在 SRP- SF 在这些领域内表现出较少的变化（例如，训练效果）。讨论了对警察培训的影响和对就业前警察候选人筛选中人格特质评估的讨论。