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The effectiveness of any SWAT Team depends on how members act under stress

Nov 01, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
I congratulate our new Commissioner of Police, Mr. Leroy Brumell, and address this letter to him. It concerns the establishment of a SWAT Team. I am, of course, assuming the Commissioner plans to implement this innovative idea where Guyana is concerned.
Those of us who have managed complex companies, run larger organizations or led powerful teams, know only too well how difficult it is to prejudge human behavior when persons are under stress. The effectiveness of any SWAT Team ultimately depends on how its members behave under stress.
Given Guyana’s history of deviant law enforcement behavior and activity particularly during the post 2002 jailbreak period, I suggest that the Commissioner considers introducing a stringent and effective procedure for recruiting SWAT Team members.
In this regard I further suggest that all potential recruits shortlisted, be subjected to rigid psychometric tests. Psychometric testing is a tool used to gain insight in to a person’s personality and psychological thinking. The idea of the test is to be able to determine up front how team members are likely to behave under extreme stress. This form of psychological probe will also highlight proclivities to deviate from specific norms of acceptable police conduct and indicate susceptibility to inappropriate political direction during times of crisis. For these tests to be effective the formats ought to be designed by professional psychologists with the peculiarities of policing in Guyana in mind. There is help out there.
F. Hamley Case

 

 

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