Review article

Curricular context of vocational police education

Silvio Bratković ; Policijska akademija, Zagreb

Abstract

Police professional education is very complex system that can be, generally, perceived from two basic aspects – content and organization. From the aspect of content, it’s about developing competences for very complex activities that are of great importance for society as a whole (question of security of people and their property, prevention and combating different kinds of criminal acts, investigating and fnding perpetrators, victim protection, trafc security, border management etc.). From the aspect of the organization, police professional education system consist of few levels – basic police education for basic competences, higher police education, that is not a part of professional education (according Croatian education system), but it acquired some important management and highly specialized competences, and a lot of different forms of adult education – specialization, vocational training and professional development (needed to acquire competences for a large number of job positions with different educational needs). Tere are three important factors that determine the totality of professional police education – curriculum, as a comprehensiveness or totality of the processes aimed at development of police ofcers and acquisition of competences needed to perform their work, qualifcation framework, that determine qualifcation levels and a way to achieve them, levels of learning outcomes in specifc educational levels and modules, and all of that as an element of police ofcers career building, and lifelong learning as basic principle of police education. Tis article deals with police professional education from the aspect of those three important factors and their mutual permeation.

Keywords

professional police education; curriculum; qualification framework; competences; learning outcomes; lifelong learning

Hrčak ID:

178848

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/178848

Publication date:

6.11.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian german

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