Law enforcement has undergone many transitions throughout its history and continues to do so. Historical flaws in law enforcement demanded restructuring the organization and implementing certain criteria to sustain a degree of integrity and discipline, in hopes of serving the public more effectively. In the early phases of law enforcement, law enforcement in general, seems to have struggled to keep up with a fast-paced society and seems to lag behind in today's world, as new crime trends occur and new criminal acts are presented to law enforcement for assessment and resolution. Nonetheless, the Wickersham Commission in 1931, the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice in 1967, and the National Advisory Commission …show more content…
The purpose was to "fill in the gaps" that were vacated by the previous attempts at directing an agenda for law enforcement. Contrary to Police Officer and Standards Commission (POST), the National Advisory Commission (NAC) requested every State incorporate a legislative State Commission to establish and implement minimum mandatory standards, by the state, when selecting law enforcement officers, rather than a few states that already adhered to POST's guidelines since its creation in California in 1959 (Doerner, 2016). However, "The Commission expected that the POSTs would govern training and licensing procedures", (Doerner, 2016, p. 150). This required a 400-hour training curriculum to be successfully completed by law enforcement officers and covered a broad area of what a police officer could expect within their profession. Each rookie officer would then be assigned with a senior officer to familiarize themselves with hands-on training and a more real-life approach to law enforcement and return to the academy for two additional weeks of training. Consequently, each certified officer would receive 40 hours of training each year known as in-service training, to refresh their knowledge and update them on upcoming laws and/or strategies (Doerner,