The Politics of Higher Police Education: An International Comparative Perspective

Terpstra, Jan; Schaap, Dorian

doi:10.1093/police/paab050

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“…For instance, the role of education may be explored more in detail as higher educated police officers may have better critical thinking skills, which may help them in making decisions when faced with unknown situations by being able to identify additional solutions. Terpstra and Schaap (2021) argue that empirical evidence on the effects of such education is inconclusive. Another factor worth exploring further is the impact of supervisors on street-level police officers' decision-making considering research has shown that supervisors are frequently absent when police officers make decisions, which results in more discretion.…”

Section: Methodological Reflections and Research Ideasmentioning

confidence: 99%

The complexity of police decisions: A collaborative study on police decision-making in Belgium

Feys

Thienen²,

Bulck³

et al. 2022

Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice

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Street-level police officers are regularly confronted with complex situations and often have to make split-second decisions. Despite the importance of these decisions for procedural justice and police legitimacy, we know little about the factors that impact Belgian police officers’ decision-making. This article explores this topic by means of semi-structured interviews (n = 46) in the Belgian local police. We conclude that there is a variety of factors that play a role. These factors can be divided into four groups: characteristics of the police officer, characteristics of the civilian, organizational characteristics, and situational characteristics. The most influential factors are police officers’ professional experience, laws and regulations, police officers’ personality, one’s colleagues and supervisors, and whether or not the civilian is aggressive and known by the police.

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Section: Methodological Reflections and Research Ideasmentioning

confidence: 99%

The complexity of police decisions: A collaborative study on police decision-making in Belgium

Feys

Thienen²,

Bulck³

et al. 2022

Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice

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“…Despite the significant amount of research on the competence approach in education, scholars have no consensus on the interpretation of the concept [38], [39]. According to Terpstra and Schaap [40], competence is a characteristic that lets one make decisions and form judgments in a particular field. The basis of this quality is knowledge, awareness, experience of socio-professional human activity.…”

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“…The scientist believes that the professional competence of a patrol officer includes personal traits, knowledge, experience, skills and motivation. In reference sources, the concept of competency (Latin for appropriate, skillful) is defined as the range of powers of any official or body; knowledge mastery, experience in a particular field [40], [41]. Competency refers to the sphere of knowledge, skills, and abilities application, and competence is a system of a person's knowledge.…”

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Scientific tools for forming professional competence of patrol police officers

Bondarenko

Okhrimenko

Piaskovskyi

et al. 2022

IJERE

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<p><span lang="EN-US">In this paper, the scientific sources analysis was presented. The peculiarities of the professional competence formation of the future patrol officers were determined. Moreover, the specifics of the service activity of patrol officers were considered. The original method for the formation of professional competence of modern police officers was substantiated and tested its effectiveness. The essence of this methodology was to introduce simulated situational tasks, aimed at forming the professional skills and abilities of future police officers. The pedagogical experiment involved students of the primary vocational training course applied in 2018 (n=183) who were studying at the center of primary vocational training “Police Academy” of the National Academy of Internal Affairs (Kyiv, Ukraine). An experimental (EG, n=93) and control (CG, n=90) group were formed. Cognitive and operational criteria evaluated the efficiency of the original methodology. The results of the pedagogical experiment indicated the greater efficiency of the original methods compared to the traditional one. A significant (р<0.05-0.001) improvement of the indicators “Knowledge of professional and practical course”, “Professional and practical skills formation” and “The effectiveness of solving scenarios” was designated. </span></p>

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“…As rightly noted by some experts (Barko, 2007;Fuchs, 2022;Lefterov, 2011;Kubaienko et al, 2021;Terpstra & Schaap, 2021;Tsilʹmak, 2017;Zhdanova et al, 2014), the communicative aspect of the investigator's activities is dominant, because the effectiveness of investigative (search) actions directly depends on the presence of:…”

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Training Technologies as a Means of Communicative Competences Development of Prejudicial Inquiry Agencies’ Investigators

Мілорадова

Okhrimenko

Dotsenko

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The communicative component of the investigator’s professional activities is a dominant one, as it demonstrates the employee’s ability to organize work on the basis of professionally balanced communication with the objects of interaction. The stage of obtaining higher education in institutions with specific learning environment is a sensitive period for the development of the main sociogenic structures of personality and the development of professional identity of future professionals. This period is characterised by a purposeful mastering of the system of professional knowledge and skills, formation of a holistic view of the professional community, which results in awareness of professional readiness. The use of training technology in the training of investigators helps to increase the efficiency of the professional training process, based on the basic principles of personality-oriented education. The aim of our research is to study the process of formation of components of communicative competence in future investigators of prejudicial inquiry agencies with the help of training technologies. Appropriate psychodiagnostic tools were used to solve this purpose, which was tested during the training of specialists for prejudicial inquiry agencies. Most of the respondents stated the existence of satisfaction with participating in the training courses, awareness of the importance of its informativeness and practical orientation. Post-training testing emphasized the participants’ rethinking of the value of interpersonal relations; growing desire to help and show warmth and friendliness in relations with others; the expediency and effectiveness of the use of cooperation and compromise in resolving conflict situations within a professional and personal environment.

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The Politics of Higher Police Education: An International Comparative Perspective

Cited by 14 publications

References 17 publications

The complexity of police decisions: A collaborative study on police decision-making in Belgium

The complexity of police decisions: A collaborative study on police decision-making in Belgium

Scientific tools for forming professional competence of patrol police officers

Training Technologies as a Means of Communicative Competences Development of Prejudicial Inquiry Agencies’ Investigators

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