When searching for a known target, mental representations of target features, or templates, guide attention towards matching objects and facilitate recognition. When only distractor features are known, distractor templates allow irrelevant objects to be recognised and attention to be shifted away. This is particularly true in X-ray baggage search,…

The article concerns the description of the system of professional training of border guards at the higher educational establishments in the Republic of India and distinguishing its structural components. To achieve the purpose of the research we used two groups of methods: quantitative and qualitative. Quantitative methods include analysis of…

How useful is social media and training programs to the development of professionals in the security sector? In this study the researchers examined three key issues pertaining to training programs. These were marketing of training programs, participant experiences of training content and work proficiency. A sample of ten participants of a forensic…

The National Institute of Corrections (2012) and the U.S. Department of Education (2012) have encouraged the implementation of motivational interviewing (MI) into services provided by correctional professionals, including reentry education. This study investigated the impact of a 21-hour MI training program on correctional education professionals'…

A campus murder prompted the Mount Vernon, New York, schools to respond with better staff training and security technology. The district is using a combination of in-house and outside training resources for continuing education and refresher courses for the security staff. New technology will include a computer-based identification system and a…