Review article
Lifelong Education of Police Officers in the Republic of Croatia
Silvio Bratković
orcid.org/0000-0002-6766-1327
; MUP RH, Zagreb, RH
Abstract
Lifelong Education of Police Officers in the Republic of Croatia
The basic principle of Police education in the Republic of Croatia is lifelong education that became formal in 2011 in basic police legal act – Law on Police. In that sense, police education formally entered a “new era” of its development and alignment with trends in the development of modern education systems and education in general. This paper considers a development of lifelong learning as basic principle of modern education as well as meaning and importance of lifelong learning and lifelong education for police officers. It explains the conceptual distinctions and describes, in more details, the components of the police education system and their importance as the pillars of the development of police education from the aspect of lifelong learning and lifelong education. It also describes the development of police education, especially from the independence of the Republic of Croatia, which has led to the present situation and compares it with the development of education in general on national and European level. At the end, it considers some possible tendencies of the development of police education in the future in the context of lifelong learning and lifelong education.
Keywords
lifelong learning; lifelong education; police education and training; police education system; learning outcomes; competences.
Hrčak ID:
225568
URI
Publication date:
25.9.2019.
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