How Training Videos Help Police
Law enforcement interacts with the community on a daily basis and must be trained in a wide array of practices and procedures. The ever-changing environment requires swift understanding and accuracy that one-off, in-person training simply cannot provide. Training practices and procedures are not only constantly adapting to new learning styles and a changing workforce, but also to changes in technology. Adopting new technology, such as video training, is one of many ways law enforcement stays relevant and ahead of the communities in which they serve, but do you really know how training videos help the police?
The use of video content helps police in multiple ways. Let’s take a look at some of the benefits of law enforcement training via video and the various ways in which training videos help police stay abreast of the most common challenges faced in our communities.
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Training Videos Deliver Bite-Sized Learning
Police are busy protecting and serving the community. Do they really have time to spend in a classroom? Traditional classroom training is not only expensive, it lacks flexibility and a long, drawn-out training session in a classroom is likely to result in boredom and a general lack of retention.
As we look at how training videos help police, one of the biggest benefits that we see is the bite-sized learning outcomes that result from video content. Instead of conducting a long, lecture-style training seminar in which law enforcement officers come together to learn at a set time, for a set amount of time, training videos offer shorter, bursts of training that more likely to be retained. Offering police training videos allows officers to continue to learn while they work — they can spend their time on the job, and each day or a few times a week, learn by engaging in training content.
Improved In-Person Learning
Not only are videos helping police to learn on their own time and retain the content that they watch, but the improved retention also results in more practical in-person learning when training scenarios are delivered. Officers who engage in video training regularly rather than sitting in a 12-hour classroom training program are more likely to retain the content that they learn. The result, in-person training and retraining sessions that would normally require a full day are cut in half or less. Further, officers enjoy their classroom time because they aren’t there for long, drawn-out lectures.
These are just a few of the ideas that come up when we look at how training videos help police. Additional benefits of police training videos include flexibility, accuracy, and for the law enforcement agency — cost savings. If these benefits sound like something your law enforcement agency could appreciate, give Beverly Boy Productions a call today to learn more about police training videos and the next steps to getting started for your crew.