Benefits of Physical Fitness in Law Enforcement
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Date
2018
Authors
Schwartz, Ricky
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Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas (LEMIT)
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Fitness among law enforcers is a crucial topic. Most of the people agree upon maintaining their fitness, but there are many arguments on ways to attain fitness objectives with the stressful characteristic of the work police officers conduct. Individual officers ought to develop methods where they can build on fitness with programs that are well-matched with the particular requirements and limitations subjected by the type of the work. In “Street Survival: Tactics for Armed Encounters” (1980), a communication that is believed by most of the officers in law enforcement to be the primary reference that is used by offers to train on safety issues. The writer asserts that: "Let us face reality, most of the officers are in worst shape. In most agencies, physical exercise is rigorously voluntary, and little is said about poor conditions" (para. 1). Unfortunately, these are the facts that people have been living with, and thus the need to initiate changes in these agencies in a personal level if doing so at the organizational level seem fruitless. Physical fitness of an officer is the most crucial element both for their own safety and community safety.
Keywords
Physical fitness, Police-- Health and hygiene