Police psychologists of the future will be force multipliers who will implement exponential force fitness. They will be true scientist-practitioners who can be holoported to any scene with unrestricted licenses and prescription privileges.

Force Multipliers. Police psychologists will be embedded directly into critical areas (e.g., executive team, detective division, special operations, intelligence, ICAC, SWAT). They will not be sitting behind a desk waiting for you to come to them for a critical incident debriefing, peak performance training, or cold case cracking. No police agency will ever have enough clinical psychologists; embedded police psychologists are force multipliers because they will dramatically impact the effectiveness of the unit. (Think: Delta Force and British SAS). Police psychological units will focus on performance optimization, ops mission tasks, behavioral health consultations, and support. The future is based on superordinate collaboration, not self-pursuit. Police psychologists will no longer be viewed completely separate from the sworn force. Supervisory tasks may include utilizing linear programming algorithms to critically analyze operational demands, staffing levels, estimate future demand, and implement deployment decisions.