Sheepdog Tip of the Day, Before Combat tip 252
Many police officers involved with our training have said to us that they're never given enough training time to practice the basic skills. They arrive for training and are immediately thrown into the high-intensity practices. This is partly due to the chronic shortage of training time, but it is also a result of senior trainers with the attitude that "this is how they will have to do it on a call." This is certainly true, but before we launch into the high-intensity work, we need to have mastered the underlying skills through low-intensity training. To do it any other way is to send officers into harm's way without being properly trained. (Recall how the military teaches drill.)
Linda K. Miller and Keith Cunningham, Secrets of Mental Marksmanship
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