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Organisation of Community-Oriented Police Work and Methods
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:9.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:29:56
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | JF_306 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 4.00 | ECTS: | 6.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Law; Theory and History of Rights | Target Audience: | Person and Property Defence | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Ilze Bērziņa | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 24 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 48 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 8 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 16 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 64 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 8 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 16 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 8 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 24 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Basic knowledge about police work. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To acquaint students with the specific nature of the organisation of work of police departments and their competence in cooperation with the population. Tasks: to develop practical skills in communicating with parties involved in the situations, with national and local authorities and various groups of population. Special attention should be paid to prevent hate crimes and violent crimes. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction. Significance of the topic and understanding of the concept „Community-Oriented Police Work” in the world. Historical development of the issue in Latvia. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | International experience. Strategies of police departments in the EU Member States and the various forms of cooperation with the inhabitants through the implementation of the community-based policing methods. | Lectures | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Documents and guidelines adopted by international organisations, defining the standards of action for employees of law enforcement institutions in their work with the population. | Lectures | 4.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | The use of the community-oriented methods of police work for preventing terrorism and radicalisation. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 5 | The role and organisation of preventive work at the State Police. | Lectures | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Organisation of the society-oriented police work and evaluation criteria in practice of foreign countries and Latvia. | Lectures | 4.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Finding out the wishes of the population and various ways of doing that. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | The use of police and survey data. Development of a local security plan and coordination of actions with partners. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 9 | Applying community-focused police work methods in day-to-day work: examples (problem solving approach or SARA model, crime analysis triangle, and other cooperation forms and practices). | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 10 | The use of community-based police work methods in their area of work or residential area – practice and evaluation of the results. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction. Significance of the topic and understanding of the concept „Community-Oriented Police Work” in the world. Historical development of the issue in Latvia. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | International experience. Strategies of police departments in the EU Member States and the various forms of cooperation with the inhabitants through the implementation of the community-based policing methods. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Documents and guidelines adopted by international organisations, defining the standards of action for employees of law enforcement institutions in their work with the population. | Lectures | 1.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | The use of the community-oriented methods of police work for preventing terrorism and radicalisation. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 5 | The role and organisation of preventive work at the State Police. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Organisation of the society-oriented police work and evaluation criteria in practice of foreign countries and Latvia. | Lectures | 1.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Finding out the wishes of the population and various ways of doing that. | Lectures | 0.50 | ||||||
| 8 | The use of police and survey data. Development of a local security plan and coordination of actions with partners. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 9 | Applying community-focused police work methods in day-to-day work: examples (problem solving approach or SARA model, crime analysis triangle, and other cooperation forms and practices). | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 10 | The use of community-based police work methods in their area of work or residential area – practice and evaluation of the results. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Group projects, case studies, discussions and preparation of a public speech. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | A student who has attended less than half of the lectures and has not passed the practical work of the examination may not be allowed to take a test. The final assessment for the course consists of a mark for the examination, the main criterion of which is the amount and quality of the acquired knowledge. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Knowledge of the community-focused police work methods in Latvia and foreign countries. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Ability to apply these methods in day-to-day police work, ability to use the obtained data for planning of work and prevention of crime. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Ability to fulfil the specified duties in accordance with the stated requirements for working with the population. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Autoru kolektīvs Landmane D., Rinkevics A., Eināts K. Atkārtotu likumpārkāpumu novēršanas pamatprincipi . Valsts policija. Rīga, 2019, 112.lpp | ||||||||
| 2 | Autoru kolektīvs. Uz sabiedrību vērts policijas darbs Latvijā 2009. – 2012. gads. Pieredze un nākamie soļi, Valsts policija. 2012. 92.lpp. | ||||||||
| 3 | Autoru kolektīvs ž. Ozoliņas redakcijā. Cilvēkdrošība Latvijā un pasaulē, Apgāds Zinātne, 2012, Rīga, 463. lpp. | ||||||||
| 4 | Ronalds V. Klarks, Džons E. Eks. Noziedzības analīze 60 soļos. Valsts policija,2011 141.lpp. | ||||||||
| 5 | Latvijas Republikas Valsts policijas Iekšējie normatīvie dokumenti, kas regulē Kārtības policijas un iecirkņa inspektora darbu | ||||||||
| 6 | Valsts policijas attīstības koncpecija | ||||||||
| 7 | Valsts policijas Prevencijas darba stratēģija | ||||||||
| 8 | Eiropas Savienības dalībvalstu policijas prevencijas darba stratēģijas un labās prakses piemēri pieejami Eiropas Noziedzības novēršanas tīkla mājas lapā | ||||||||
| 9 | www.eucpn.org | ||||||||
| 10 | Vadošo tiesību zinātņu un kriminālās justīcijas pētniecības institūtu mājas lapas | ||||||||
| 11 | www.vera.org | ||||||||
| 12 | Atkārtotas viktimizācijas novēršana Valsts policijā | ||||||||
| 13 | Landmane D, Rinkevics A, Policijas darba kvalitāte cietušo vērtējumā. Rīga, Valsts policija, 2013.gads, 62.lpp | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Starptautisko organizāciju dokumenti, kas nosaka tiesību aizsardzības institūciju vadlīnijas darbam ar sabiedrību. Eiropas policijas koledžas (CEPOL) Pētījumi un publikācijas, apmācības kursu materiāli. | ||||||||
| 2 | Eiropas policijas koledžas mājas lapa: | ||||||||
| 3 | www.cepol.org | ||||||||
| 4 | Par Apvienoto Nāciju organizāciju organizācijas vadlīnijām tiesību aizsardzības institūciju darbiniekiem | ||||||||
| 5 | http://www.un.org | ||||||||
| 6 | http://www.unhchr.ch | ||||||||
| 7 | http://www.hrw.org | ||||||||
| 8 | Par Eiropas padomi | ||||||||
| 9 | http://www.coe.int | ||||||||
| 10 | Par EDSO | ||||||||
| 11 | www.osce.org | ||||||||
