NCJ Number
178341
Date Published
1996
Length
36 pages
Annotation
These eight articles focus on safety among probation and parole officers, with emphasis on the central safety issues in community-based corrections, simulation training, police/probation partnerships as an officer safety strategy, use of force, self-defense training, and the handling of critical incidents.
Abstract
A foreword notes that community corrections officers are exposed to more risk today than in the past due to increasingly serious offenders on probation and parole, the emergence of intermediate sanctions, and the move toward a community-oriented model of supervision. An analysis of core issues in officer safety focuses on officer safety as a state of mind, risk as part of the job, the need for training, the importance of verbal de-escalation, a use-of-force model as the foundation for all officer safety training, and a department's need for an annual training and certification program. Additional articles discuss simulation training as crucial to the retention of safety skills, the use by police agencies and probation of joint enforcement of juvenile curfews and other restrictions in Boston, and Florida's approach to probation and parole staff safety. Further articles focus on issues related to the role of firearms by probation and parole officers, the need for regular self-defense training that is oriented to survival, and the handling of a critical incident by the Colorado Division of Adult Parole Supervision. Author biographies, reference notes, and reference lists