Human Awareness Training for the Police

Abstract

A survey carried out from 1979–82 by the Policy Studies Institute at the request of Sir David McNee has just been published as a report. Some of the more disquieting aspects of their investigations, i.e. evidence of bullying, drunkenness and prejudice in the Metropolitan Police Force have been taken up by Sir Kenneth Newman in inverviews with press and television. He has been at pains to point out that the survey started in 1979 and that since he took office changes have been implemented in the Force which, in his view, have been designed to improve the quality of policing generally and the relations between police and the general public. This kind of on-the-job training was one of the recommendations of the report.