Verbal Communication Skills

Police officers have to be able to communicate well with others by verbally speaking. Many occupations require excellent verbal communication skills to operate efficiently. Police officers rely on verbal skills as a matter of life and death. The first lines of communication with police officers are giving and receive orders from the dispatcher. The dispatcher must be able to communicate clearly what the emergency is where it is and the level of threat. Officer to officer have to effectively verbally communicate to one another mostly by radio. Officers must speak clearly and efficiently using as few words as possible to communicate the situation. Officers also have to communicate with citizens, when verbally giving orders to a citizen; an officer has to have a firm clear voice. There is another side when dealing with citizens “the victim”, it is always hard on a victim and the officer should always communicate in a clear soft spoken voice.