Analysis of student attitudes on the effectiveness of field training in summer conditions

Abstract

The field training of students of the Academy of Criminalistic and Police studies is a special form of teaching that has its own place and role in the curricula of the Academy of Criminalistic and Police Studies in Belgrade. During the field training, students experience a specific set of living and working conditions in which they are to adopt practical knowledge and skills necessary for effective policing. This special form of teaching has a long tradition in the police institutions of higher education. While the structure and form of field training have remained unchanged, the contents of the training have evolved in line with social and security changes in the country and abroad. The results of the survey of attitudes of students of the Academy of Criminalistic and Police studies conducted after the implementation of field training in the year 2011 indicate high efficiency of this particular form of teaching in the process of raising the overall level of training the students to apply practical knowledge and skills that will be necessary to perform once they have been employed with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Serbia.

Terenska obuka studenata Kriminalističko-policijske akademije predstavlja poseban oblik nastave koji ima svoje mesto i ulogu u studijskim programima Kriminalističko-policijske akademije. Tokom njene realizacije studenti pod specifičnim režimom života i rada usvajaju niz praktičnih znanja i veština neophodnih za efikasno obavljanje policijskih poslova. Ta vrsta posebnog oblika nastave ima dugu tradiciju realizacije u policijskim visokoškolskim institucijama. Dok struktura i forma terenske obuke ostaju nepromenjene, sadržaji koji su se realizovali evoluirali su u skladu sa društvenim i bezbednosnim promenama u zemlji i okruženju. Rezultati ispitivanja stavova studenata Kriminalističko-policijske akademije, sprovedenog nakon realizacije terenske obuke 2011. godine, ukazuju na veliku efektivnost ovog posebnog oblika nastave u procesu podizanja ukupnog nivoa obučenosti studenata za primenu praktičnih znanja i veština koje će im biti neophodne za obavljanje poslova nakon zasnivanja radnog odnosa u Ministarstvu unutrašnjih poslova Republike Srbije.