Current training paradigms have been found to create to relationship between traditional handgun training, for example, and the necessity of using handguns in the line of duty itself. Indeed, the authors provide excellent literature support for the main focus of the work, which is to emphasize the general lack of adequate and realistic on-the-job training for police officers and military personnel. The literature review futhermore emphasize the effect of unusual stress not only on the cortisol levels, but also on the ability to learn from experience and effectively incorporate such learning experiences in the long-term. In other words, these learning experiences, when provided only during the work situation itself, create a dangerous situation for both officers of the law and those who share any physical vicinity with them.
The article therefore indicates that a vital component of military and police training, in terms of creating situations that simulate probably job experiences in a much more realistic way, which should also create...
While the article shows that stress is experienced during such exercises, this stress nonetheless provides the opportunity to learn effectively on a non-life-threatening platform. The brain is therefore more disposed to learning while also obtaining the experience of the stress factor and its physiological effects.
The article concludes with a thorough consideration of the limitations of the current study, as well as making suggestions for future study. In general, this is a very good beginning of what one might hope to be a range of studies in this important field. It is vitally important for officer in highly hazardous work environments to receive training that at least simulates situations that they might encounter in the workplace. Not providing this could be fatal not only for the officers in question, but also for the citizens they are required to protect. Hence, studies like the one offered here provide both valuable and vitally important paradigms of future study and workplace modification.
