I understand why it might have started out this way when police forces were first becoming established, but why does it continue to be this way?
These seem like entirely different skill sets, and surely it’s easier to teach them basic police skills as part of their training rather than having them stay as beat cops for several years first.
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They aren’t completely different skill sets. A patrol officer will gather evidence, speak with witnesses and victims and suspects, etc. A patrol officer is going to be the first one on the scene of any crime, and they’re not just going to sit there with their thumb up their ass waiting for a detective. You say that it wouldn’t be hard to teach them basic police skills, but my rebuttal is that it’s just as easy if not easier to instead build off of the fundamentals they learned on the beat.
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