News: Performance Management
Police to receive increased skills training
02 January 2008
Senior police officers are going to receive training to provide them with the skills necessary to deal with the public and businesses, it has been revealed.
Under the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) plans the skills will become a new standard for the most senior members of the force, Personnel Today reports.
And Shelagh O'Leary, a director for the firm, revealed that the training was particularly important as the nature of the role of the police force has changed.
"There is a recognition now that our [police] leaders are business leaders. Currently police officers come up through the ranks, but we haven’t taught them or given them any development about how to manage a business," she told the publication.
She added: "The demands on leaders in the police service will get even more complicated because of increasing expectations around dealing with the counter-terrorism strategy, and being more accountable to communities through neighbourhood policing."
Meanwhile, the Institute of the Motor Industry, has revealed that without a major revamp in the training of sector employees the industry would be faced with a major skills crisis in the coming years.
