Perspectives of development of police education and training

Abstract

With the development of the society, the police function in becoming more complex, requiring certain knowledge, skills and habits, and adopting professional norms and values. In that context different forms of police education and training emerged. In contemporary world there is a great variety in police education and training in terms of content, form and organization, but there are certain global tendencies like convergence of different systems, homogenisation of curriculum, implementation of modern teaching methods directed to students and learning, not teachers and teaching, developing their creativity in problem solving, and looking for optimal balance between theory and practice, followed by opening of the police training and education institutions toward civil society. Those tendencies are described in the paper, as well as specific solutions in certain countries that might have brother significance and applicability.