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On the Job (Fitness) Training
Long hours. Shift work. Fast food. Boredom. Adrenaline dumps. This reads like an a´ la carte menu of the behaviors that contribute to poor health. It also represents the elements of the job descriptions for public safety officers and those that staff their emergency communications centers.
Emergency Number Professional magazine published this cover article by Jay Smith in March 2007. Click here.
The question of standards and programming was the content of a presentation made by Jay Smith at the International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference in Boston in October, 2006. Chuck Remsberg wrote of the presentation at PoliceOne. Click here.
The Commission has long supported the National Law Enforcement Advisory Task Group on a Model Program. G. Gregory Tooker of Risk Probe, Inc., the driving force behind the cooperative effort between the various law enforcement agencies participating in the Task Group efforts co-authored this article published by CALEA. Click Here.
Tom Collingwood, Bob Hoffman, and Jay Smith wrote of the physical fitness factors that underly the performance of law enforcement duties.
Few if any law enforcement personnel disagree with the notion that physical fitness is necessary for the safe and effective performance of certain critical and essential job functions. The more difficult question is, how fit do officers need to be? There is even more confusion as to how traditional measures of physical fitness, such as push-ups and sit-ups, can be underlying and predictive factors for the performance of those essential law enforcement job tasks.
For the last 30 years, the authors of this article have been actively involved in establishing physical fitness programs and standards in hundreds of municipal, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. Those agencies ask, how can we prove that being physically fit is job related? Click Here for the full text.
The Monitor
The issue of fitness programming and standards has also had recent treatment in the popular press. The Monitor, a newspaper from McAllen, Texas published this article in August 2006.
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