Davor Solomun

Police College Zagreb, Croatia

CEPOL 2016 Research and Science Conference GLOBAL TRENDS IN LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING AND EDUCATION

5 – 7 October 2016 National University of Public Service

Budapest, Hungary

Police and security

Police education - criminalist

Police science and criminalistics

Police Research Centre

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Multidimensional expansion of security

Changing the referent subject of security

Individual security

Contemporary threats

Response and reaction of police

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Police and police work as practical profession

Originality and adequacy of educational models

High education and competencies of criminalists

Scientific contents in modeling of police work

Relation: security-police-criminalistics-law

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Change of paradigm:

"research after learning" into "learning through

research“

• intent to act on Syllabi courses

• directing focus and adjustment of teachers –

researchers

• improving output competencies of criminalists

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Main implementation outline

Objective:

• concentrate lecturers, teachers and researchers within

Police College

• involve other similar HR and EU institutions

• producing conditions for multidirectional and reversible

professional acting of criminalists

• has been established as organizational unit (but

implementation is not in full function yet)

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Purpose:

• practicing of professional experience

• recruitment teachers from among the

criminalists - police officers - practitioners

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2 strategic areas

9 strategic objectives

few tactical and operational goals

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INTEGRATION POLICE THEORY AND PRACTICE

- professional contribution

teachers

practitioners

Referent Centers

students

workshops, lectures, forums

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DEVELOPMENT AND EMANCIPATION OF SUBJECT

OF POLICE SCIENCE – scientific contribution

• scientific - research projects

• inter institutional cooperation

• international cooperation

• conferences within Police College

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Integration of police practice, theory and science

Syllabi courses accompanied with research of

security events in real-time its happening

Implementation through Police Research Centre

Improving of programs quality

Strengthening of competencies of criminalists

and teachers

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D. Solomun, Police College Zagreb, CEPOL2016

Thank you for your attention