Skills for Justice HE Forum

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Skills for JusticeHE Forum
John Jones Institute of Criminal Justice
Studies University of Portsmouth
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Background

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Early History

• 1990 The MPS - A Wacky Idea
• 1992 Cert HE and Dip HE Policing
• 1993 BSc (Hons) Policing and Police Studies
• DL
• Study Schools
• Tutor Support
• 1,000 police officer graduates

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Later Developments

• Post Graduate Qualifications
• BA (Hons) Criminal Justice
• FdA Policing and Police Studies

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Most recent developments

• Associate Department Status
• Surrey Police
• Botswana Police College
• PN CBRN C
• Defence Police College

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Why Important? The Complexity Argument
In the police organisation of the 21st century,
effectiveness will depend more on the
intellectual capabilities of the employee than on
any other factor. Intellectual capability in this
sense refers to the capacity of organisational
employees to acquire and apply theoretical and
analytical knowledge in their work . (Walsh,
1998. p. 21).
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Why Important ? The Independent Professional
Argument
Police officers are part of a disciplined
service, but this cannot control their everyday
actions and judgements on the street. There,
officers are independent judges of the situations
they confront. There is a real sense in which
each officer is a policy maker of policing. This
means we have to educate officers to be capable
of analysing situations, recognising their
salient features and being confident and
competent in the exercise of independent decision
making (Norris and Kushner,(1999) p. 418)
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Why Important ? Workforce Modernisation

• low tech policing should not be delivered by
  police officers (Quick 2007).
• Professionalising Policing
• The Death of Omnicompetence
• Parallel Professions
• The Mixed Economy and the Ward Manager

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Why Important? The opportunities for Knowledge
Transfer

• Gun Crime
• Vietnamese Organised Crime
• Multi Agency Interface at Critical Incidents
• Joint teaching
• Pooling Resources
• Doing what we are best at

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Wise(ish) Words

• Personal Agendas vs the greater good
• Needs Real Commitment
• Understand the differences
• Can do vs process
• Identify the Budget Holders
• IT CAN AND DOES WORK!!!