Cincinnati's police education programs developed along with the trend toward community education in 2 year occupational programs attached to universities. A police cadet program, begun in 1954 to bring new recruits into the department and to have a longer period in which to train and evaluate them, became the mainstay for the successive educational programs that were developed. These programs were connected to Chase Commercial College and later to the University of Cincinnati and were run primarily by the police department, with only formal ties to the university and little cooperation between police and the academic faculty in curriculum planning. A separate effort was made in the late 1960's to bring police education into the academic environment and to end the isolation of police education from the more philosophical issues of criminal justice. At the College of Community Services police courses have focused on management skills and an awareness of social and racial issues and police history. In general, police-university tension in Cincinnati has reflected a conflict between the values of educated men and the insulation of senior police officers. No references are cited.