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Policing Advance Access originally published online on September 24, 2007
Policing 2007 1(3):265-272; doi:10.1093/police/pam041
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press.

Perception of Risk and the Decision to Use Force

Itiel E. Dror*

* Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Southampton E-mail: id{at}ecs.soton.ac.uk; http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/id/

The quality of policing depends on making sound decisions. Many cognitive factors are involved in decision making and these must be understood and harnessed so as to enhance the quality of decisions taken by police officers. In this paper, I discuss two different decision-making systems (deliberative and experiential), and how decision factors (such as complexity), internal factors (such as expectations), and external factors (such as time pressure) all come together in deciding whether or not to use force. Providing proper training and correctly utilising technology can enhance an officer's ability to make sound decisions.


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