Alaska Village Police Training: An Assessment and Recommendations

Group: University of Alaska Anchorage Justice Center

URL: http://justice.uaa.alaska.edu/research/1970/7804.village_justice/7804.01.ak_village_pol...

Description

Beginning in 1971, the Alaska Department of Public Safety received action grants from the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) for the initiation of a broadly conceived program for developing criminal justice services in Alaska Native villages statewide — the Alaska Village Police Training program. A total of approximately $542,000 of LEAA was ultimately invested in continuing the program over a period of seven years (1971–1978). The present study evaluates the Alaska Village Police Training program over the seven-year period on program purpose and goals, program achievements and impacts, and program costs. A final section contains recommendations for future programs to improve training for Alaska police in rural villages. Of 292 people trained since the program's inception, only 70 were still serving in their villages as of late 1978.

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law enforcement, rural, tribal justice, training academies

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