Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.59245/ps.32.4.7
Boxing as an Element of Police Training
Ivica Biletić
; Veleučilište kriminalistike i javne sigurnosti, Policijska akademija "Prvi policijski redarstvenik", MUP RH
Abstract
Given that police work is demanding, risky and dangerous and that it poses particular challenges, police officers must be physically fit at all times and have a remarkable level of knowledge of certain combat sports and martial arts. This paper aims to show that boxing is essential for the self-defence of police officers and general physical fitness, as well as for specialist training of police officers. Physical activities in the police are carried out with the aim of improving health and performance. General and specialist police training programmes comprise elements of various combat sports and martial arts and police self-defence, restraining, and apprehension techniques. Boxing, which is not only an Olympic sport but also one of the oldest combat sports, is a crucial component of the curricula for police training for all police ranks. As a combat sport, it is partially convenient for use when doing police work and performing police tasks. Understanding the essential elements of boxing can significantly benefit police officers through police training aimed at developing or increasing police officers' physical abilities and self-confidence. Considering how brutal and dangerous they can be, boxing punches can only be delivered to the attacker's body and never to the attacker's head and neck in order to avoid severe bodily injuries. Boxing punches, boxing movements and defences are important elements of self-defence and must be given priority in the training of police officers. It is thus proposed that the number of hours of training in boxing be increased in the official programme for general and specialist police training, especially as an element of self-defence, and that the elements which are convenient for use when doing police work, but are not trained at all, be introduced into police training.
Keywords
boxing, police training, self-defence, physical fitness, training
Hrčak ID:
311290
URI
Publication date:
20.12.2023.
Visits: 282 *