Higher Education and Police: An International View

283 Pages·2018·4.15 MB·English

by  Colin Rogers,Bernhard Frevel (eds.)

H I G H E R
E D U C A T I O N
A N D P O L I C E
A n I n t e r n a t i o n a l V i e w
EDITED BY
COLIN ROGERS,
BERNHARD FREVEL
Higher Education and Police
Colin Rogers • Bernhard Frevel
Editors
Higher Education
and Police
An International View
Editors
Colin Rogers Bernhard Frevel
University of South Wales - Pontypridd Institut für Polizei- & Kriminalwissenschaften
Pontypridd, UK FH für öffentliche Verwaltung NRW
Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
ISBN 978-3-319-64408-0 ISBN 978-3-319-58386-0 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-58386-0
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Acknowledgement
Professor Colin Rogers would like to acknowledge his wife, Alison
Rogers, for her support throughout his career and for her encouragement
in this work.
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Contents
1 Introduction: Higher Police Education—An International
Perspective 1
Colin Rogers and Bernhard Frevel
Part I Professionalisation 15
2 Education and the Police Professionalisation Agenda:
A Perspective from England and Wales 17
Stephen Tong and Katja M. Hallenberg
3 Police Basic Training in Sweden: Vocational or Academic?
An Educational Muddle 35
Anders Green
4 The New Zealand Context: Finding Common Ground
in the Land of the Long White Cloud 59
Stephen Darroch
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Part II Innovation 85
5 The College of Policing: Police Education and Research
in England and Wales 87
Colin Rogers and Bethan Smith
6 Police Higher Education in China 107
Zheng Chen
7 Higher Education and Democratic Policing: Challenges
from Latin America 123
José-Vicente Tavares dos Santos
8 Higher Police Education in Europe: Surveying Recent
Developments 155
André Konze and Detlef Nogala
Part III Application 179
9 R esponding to Needs of Higher Analytical Competence
in the Police: Master Programmes at the Norwegian
Police University College 181
Aun Hunsager Andresen and Nina Jon
10 Starting as a Kommissar/Inspector? – The State’s
Career System and Higher Education for Police
Officers in Germany 197
Bernhard Frevel
11 H igher Police Education in the Netherlands 223
Jan Heinen and Harry Peeters
Conten ts ix
12 Down Under: Police Education at the Charles Sturt
University, Australia 247
Tracey Green
Index 271
List of Contributors
Aun Hunsager Andresen is a police superintendent in charge of the evaluation
of police students attending the second year of their bachelor’s degree at the
Police University College, Norway. Prior to this, he was a teacher at the Police
University College for eight years, and then a patrolling officer. He holds a mas-
ter’s degree in police science from the Norwegian Police University College and
has also studied educational guidance and management.
Publications: (2014) Politiets trening på bruk av fysisk makt. Oslo:
Politihøgskolen. (2008). Arrestasjonsteknikkens historiske utvikling i norsk poli-
tiutdanning. Oslo: Politihøgskolen.
Zheng Chen is a lecturer at National Police University of China. He studied
policing studies at Charles Sturt University, Australia. He researches police cul-
ture, community policing, police occupational attitude, police job satisfaction
and police education.
Selected publications: 2016. Measuring police subcultural perceptions: A study
of frontline police officers in China, Springer: Singapore; 2016. An exploratory
study of police cynicism in China, Policing: An International Journal of Police
Strategies and Management, 39 (1), 175–189; 2016. Measuring police role ori-
entations in China: An exploratory study, International Journal of Law, Crime
and Justice, 44 (1), 43–67.
Steve Darroch is the head of School Prevention and an acting director training
at the Royal New Zealand Police College. He is an inspector of New Zealand
Police. He studied psychology and sociology at Victoria University of Wellington
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New Zealand; management and business at Massey University Palmerston
North New Zealand and criminology and criminal justice at Griffith University
Queensland, Australia. He leads training for New Zealand Police in crime pre-
vention, family violence, youth interventions, road policing, intelligence, com-
munity policing and problem solving and training for New Zealand Police
international deployments into the Pacific and beyond. His research interests
include intelligence-led policing, police innovation, police training and the
intergenerational transmission of harm.
Selected publications: Intelligence: The dilemmas of Intelligence and Ethical
Police Practice: Policing Terrorism and Managing Covert Human sources in Ethical
Police Practice. Edited by P. A. J. Waddington, John Kleinig, and Martin Wright
Oxford (2013). Intelligence-led Policing: A comparative analysis of organiza-
tional factors influencing innovation uptake (with Professor Lorraine Mazerolle)
Police Quarterly March 2013. Intelligence-led Policing A comparative analysis of
Community Context influencing innovation uptake (with Professor Lorraine
Mazerolle) Policing an International Journal of Police Strategies and Management,
April 2013.
Bernhard Frevel is Professor of Social Sciences at the Fachhochschule für
öffentliche Verwaltung NRW – University of Applied Sciences for Public
Administration of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany). He studied pedagogics,
sociology, psychology and political science at the Universities of Siegen, Cologne
and Hagen. He researches the security system in Germany, local safety and crime
prevention, security governance and police education.
Selected publications: (with Hartmut Aden) 2017. Policing metropolises in a
system of cooperative federalism: Berlin and Cologne compared. In Paul
Ponsaers, Elke Devroe and Adam Edwards (ed.), Policing European Metropolises.
Oxon (Taylor & Francis); (with Colin Rogers) 2016. Community Partnerships
(UK) vs. Crime Prevention Councils (GER): differences and similarities. In The
Police Journal – Theory, Practice and Principles, vol. 89 (2), pp. 133–150; 2015.
Pluralisation of local policing in Germany. Security between the state’s monop-
oly of force and the market. In European Journal of Policing Studies, vol. 2 (3),
pp. 267–284.
Anders Green is a Ph. Licentiate in criminology. For the master’s degree in
social sciences, he studied political science, criminology and sociology at the
universities of Lund and Stockholm. He has been working within the Swedish
judicial system for approximately 25 years, whereof the major part as a senior
lecturer at the former Swedish National Police Academy. Amongst his other
employees, one can find the Police Authority and the Swedish Prison and