Effects of Occupational Load on the Acceleration, Change of Direction Speed, and Anaerobic Power of Police Officers | Semantic Scholar (2024)

While unloaded agility test performance was strongly associated with loaded performance, female police officer CODS was significantly reduced when carrying occupational loads.

The wearing of three different ILAV types used in policing do not appear to be heavy enough to affect the power or agility of police officers.

Evaluating the effects of load carriage on physiological, perceptual, and performance responses during an Occupational Physical Ability Test (OPAT) found that strength and conditioning programs for FHP should aim to reduce the negative impact of additional load associate with wearing PPE.

This study supports previous research that suggests that occupational load carriage has a negative impact on VJ performance in police officers and may influence job performance, and that training programs may mitigate these negative effects.

Findings support the approach that optimal load carriage performance may be achieved by performing load carriage tasks in conjunction with aerobic fitness and full body strength/lower limb power training.

It was found that both anaerobic and aerobic running activities decreased the speed of the subsequent performance on the Illinois Agility Test, finding that increasing fitness may be a means of reducing the negative impacts of preceding submaximal impacts on change-of-direction speed performance.

Investigation of officers’ perceptions of the impacts of three different ILAVs and normal station wear whilst performing police occupational tasks found ILAV B received lower ratings of discomfort overall, and some positive comments regarding both comfort and performance.

Investigating body composition and CODS in female and male police cadets in both unloaded and occupationally loaded conditions found body composition was strongly associated with the time to complete LIAT, and opti mizing body composition through increasing skeletal muscle mass and reducing fat mass could positively influence unloaded and loaded CODs performance and improve elements of police task performance.

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