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~roRCEMENT JULY 1979 rBl BUllETIN The FBI Academy Today and technological contributions in the criminal justice field, you can compare these to fleet and servicewide cooperation and mutual support. Each line element, from destroyer to carrier, has its role and each is supported at sea by oilers, ammunition ships, and various tenders. Overall, they are supported by supply, training, and recruiting commands. Director's Each local, State, and Federal law enforcement agency has its mission, but all An ~xpanded Message National Academy are interdependent. The FBI has many curriculum, training in sophisticated support roles, in addition to its priority line computer crime investigation, college investigative functions. Some of these are accreditation, arson investigation training, long established: Fingerprint identification new forensic science research and training forensic laboratory examinations, and ' facilities-these are some of the training. One of the most important of the developments planned or already in training roles is the FBI National Academy progress at the FBI Academy. program. Marking its 44th anniversary this This issue of the Law Enforcement month, the National Academy program, Bulletin focuses on these training efforts supplemented by the new National both their content and method, because 'the Executive Institute, is becoming the present and projected status of training at equivalent of military staff colleges for our Quantico facility will "help shape the training management. future direction of law enforcement training Some of our support functions are . ," as the Assistant Director of the newer and growing-NCIC for example. One Training Division notes. of the newest is the undercover Sting This training and the advanced operation, a whole new approach to e?u?~tion available through the University of investigation. These operations are Virginia represent a keystone in building outstanding examples of new cooperative cooper~ti?n. We must take every advantage efforts between local and Federal law Of. o~r limited resources to accomplish our enforcement, with LEAA funding and local mission today; thus, cooperative efforts are implementation and supplemented by FBI or needed more than ever. other Federal support in technology and . An appr?priate analogy to this necessity personnel. A Florida newspaper editorially noted, IS the operation of a Navy ship. The crew must be able to work together as a team after one Sting operation was completed, because each job on a ship is mutually that it is "encouraging to learn that, not only supportive, from engine room to bridge. Add is the FBI today approachable, but that it is motivation to training and cooperation and actively involved in comprehensive relations you have the key elements for success. with other law enforcement agencies at the Within a given law enforcement agency, county and city level. .. " The editorial each component must also do its job in recognized that now "tax dollars spent for cooperation with the other elements of the crime control are being spent more command. Patrol, investigation-the line efficiently and with outstanding results." components-depend on support functions Cooperation, which can begin with and on .cor:nmand for the tools and training, training, is one way to achieve law for motivation and strategy. Going beyond enforcement's goal of crime control. We in th.e sing~e department, the naval analogy is the FBI will do everything possible to stili applicable. Taking local and State police accomplish our part in this mission. adding various Federal law enforcement ' agencies and the ever-increasing academic William H. Webster Director July 1, 1979 ~ORCEMENT rBl BUllETIN JULY 1979, VOLUME 48, NUMBER 7 Contents Personnel 2 The Training Director By Edward J, Tully, Special Agent, FBI Academy Physical Fitness S The American Association of Police PhysiCians and Surgeons By Jacob Kraft, M,D" Senior Surgeon, Police Department, Kansas City, Mo, Administration 8 Task Analysis-A Beginning By Robert 0, White, Special Agent, FBI Academy White-collar Crime 9 Computer Crime Investigators-A New Training Field By Bill 0, Colvin, Special Agent, FBI Academy Training 13 Nonverbal Behavior in the Training Environment By Ancil B, Sparks and Laurence W, Levine, Special Agents, FBI Academy The Legal Digest 18 Legal Training in the FBI By Donald J. McLaughlin, Special Agent, Legal Counsel Division Press Relations 19 "No Comment ..." Law Enforcement and the Media By Charles W. Steinmetz, Special Agent, FBI Academy Point of View 24 The FBI Academy-1984 By Kenneth E, Joseph, Ph.D" Assistant Director, and James A. O'Connor, Ph. D., Academic Dean, Special Agents, FBI Academy 28 Wanted by the FBI The Cover: Federal Bureau of Investigation Published by the Public Affairs Office, This month's cover United States Department of Justice Homer A. Boynton, Jr., Inspector in Charge features the quadrangle area of Washington, D.C. 20535 Editor-Thomas J. Deakin the FBI Academy. William H. Webster, Director Associate Editor-William E. Trible Staff-Kathryn E. Sulewski, Gino Orsini, The Attorney General has determined that the publication Jeffrey L. Summers of this periodical is necessary in the transaction of the public business required by law of the Oepartment of Justice. Use of funds for printing this periodical has been approved by the Oirector of the Office of Management and Budget through December 28, 1983. ISSN 0014-5688 USPS 383-310 The Training ByEDWARDJ.TULLY Director Special Agent Education and Communication Arts Unit FBI Academy Quantico, Va. There are few social scientists In this regard, our profession has agency. In the past, training command who would not agree with the fact that been well-served by the process of used to be a step in the promotional the pace of change in American soci• training. In the past 25 years or so, process in law enforcement. Today, a ety over the past 25 years has been police training programs have substan• few organizations have realized that extremely rapid. In fact, Alvin Toffler in tially increased in quantity, quality, and this position demands an individual his popular book, Future Shock, hy• sophistication. In many cities and with extensive experience in the de• pothesized that the change has been States, police are conducting training sign, development, and execution of too fast for some individuals and insti• programs for recruits and inservice education and training programs. To tutions in our culture to assimilate. personnel, which are the finest of their understand this trend, let's examine Thus, there has been a certain amount type in the world. Police training has the roles the training director may play of cultural shock or dysfunction. become, in this relatively short period within an organization. Whether T offler is correct or not, all of time, respectable both in the aca• A review of literature concerning observers agree that there has been demic and professional training worlds. the role of the training director, includ• rapid social, economic, and political If present trends continue, training will ing an examination of the subject by change in America. continue to increase its sphere of influ• Calvin Otto and Rollin Glaser in The . On the cutting edge of this ence within police organizations in the Management of Training, 1 Leonard change, the profession of law enforce• years to come. In law enforcement Nadler and Gordon Lippit in a 1967 ment stood, attempting to preserve or• circles, at least, the process of training article in the Training and Development der and 'to be neutral between the has come of age. Having proved to Journal, 2 Leonard Nadler's 1970 book competing forces. It was a position police administrators and the public the entitled Developing Human Re• which called for considerable immedi• value of strong, responsive training sources,3 and Paul Chaddock's chap• ate change within the profession itself. programs, the problem now faced by ter in the second edition of the Training Law enforcement did not have the lux• training managers is to salvage as and Development Handbook,4 shows ury of quiet reflection to consider the many of their respective programs as that experts hold the training director pros and cons of change. It did not possible in a period of declining or functions in the following roles: have the time to experiment with alter• fixed police budgets. This burden, as 1. Administrator of training; native solutions to social unrest. Nor well as designing new training pro• 2. Trainer, teacher, philosopher; was there time for enlightened debate; grams to continue the professionaliza• 3. Advocate or consultant; and there was only time for reaction to tion of the police, will fall on the 4. Research and development director. events. Some reactions were proper training director and his staff. Our experience at the FBI Academy and served to preserve order; some Just as the process of training has coincides with their findings. were not and only served to inflame come of age in law enforcement, so the situation. To a certain extent, we has the realization that the position of are fortunate to have come through training director is a demanding, com• this period intact as a profession. To a plex, executive position within the greater extent, it could be argued that we are more professional for having had the experience. 2 / FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin Of course, the training director will ance objectives, lesson plans, and function. The training director must not function in all of the above roles criterion test measures; (e) design spe• also be prepared to assist in the follow• simultaneously, and a variety of cir• cialized training programs; (f) be knowl• ing areas: cumstances within the organization will edgeable about developments in the 4. (a) Design of organizational re• dictate the amount of time he spends training and development field; and (g) search projects; (b) research and de• in discharging his responsibilities.