Police subcultural impacts on tactical and non-tactical training motivation

Police subculture has served as the backdrop for many important studies in the field of policing owing to its unique nature and role it plays in daily interactions with the public. Yet subcultural impacts on training motivation remain poorly understood despite training being one of the key tools of police reform. The present research addressed this gap by surveying Indian police officers to not only assess subcultural dimensions but model the relationships between police subculture and motivation to engage in tactical and non-tactical training. The results revealed that different subcultural dimensions (traditional and non-traditional) evinced unique impacts on the motivation to train and transfer different types of training to policing which partly supported the hypothesized relationships.