REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

MINISTRY OF INTERIOR                                                              

                                                                                                               Approved by:

                                                                                                                  Minister

                                                                                                               Dragan Jocic

 SUBJECT:                               

                                     STRATEGY

                         FOR DEVELOPMENT OF

       POLICE TRAINING AND EDUCATION SYSTEM

WITH CONSENT OF:

Assistant to the Minister, Head of the Sector for Financial, Personnel, Common and Technical Affairs

Major General, Suzana Sulejic

Head of Directorate for Police Education, Professional Development and Science

Krsto Lipovac, Ph.D.

CONTENTS

1.      Introduction

1.1   Outline

1.2  Vision, mission and values for the development of the training

       and education

2.      Design of the system

2.1  Structure of a research team

2.2  Educational aims

2.3  Methodology

2.4  Management of the strategy

2.5  Mandate of institutions

2.6  Organizational structure

2.7  Curricular system design

3.      Implementation of designed solutions

4.      Bases for changes

5.      Constraints to development

6.      Basic principles for changes

7.      Scientific-research work

8.      Normative standards and solutions

8.1  Setting norms for training and education

8.2  Standards for the selection of students and participants

8.3  Standards for training and education

9.      New training and education programs

10.  Validity and feasibility of the reform

10.1Assessment of training and education reform

10.2Feasibility of training and education reform

10.3Implementation dynamics

Annex 1: Introductory remarks

Annex 2: System of police training and education

Annex 3: Guidelines for basic and specialized police training curricula development

1. INTRODUCTION

    1.1. Outline

Organizing of concept and strategy for changes is a complex, long-term and scientifically based creation of the foundations and standards which provide continuing development of police education in Serbia and its harmonizing with the Serbian educational system and European police and civil education system. Developing the strategy for the police education system of Serbia is based on Serbian national development policy, principles and documents relating educational development in Serbia and Europe, European police education trends, Serbian’s traditional police education, vision of police education development, current situation in police education and assessment of existing and conceivable restraints.

Basis for the whole police educational reform process, enactment of new laws and by-laws, introduction of modern national and international standards and principles related to the institutional organization and education all have been secured by systematical approach. Introduction of the modern standards will provide rationalized institutional constitution and management of education through assessment of institutional efficiency, assessment and monitoring of the quality of  the educational process, as well as through constant comparison and adjustment to the world accomplishments in the European and world police education system and permanent development of training techniques and education, meeting the demands of The Ministry of Interior as well as other security system entities (training and educational system).

1.2. Vision, mission and values for the development of training and education

Vision for the development of this system is a modern, sustainable training and educational system, in which the professional police members are trained during their whole work span, based on the highest level of transferable knowledge. System is based on the rule of law, and is in compliance with generally internationally accepted standards. Education of personnel for the needs of police is based on and follows all university standards. It is open and oriented towards internal and external control and constant development.

Mission of the development of training and education system is continuing advancement of police professionalism through training, education and constant teaching of police officers, other members of The Ministry of Interior, and other security representatives (tax/revenue police, judiciary, security officers in public services, business organizations if there is a need for it, customer requests and institutional competence). In the process, basic assumption is that necessary knowledge, skills and habits that are essential for different police duties and security procedures can not be acquired through other educational institutions, without the MoI's backup. Effective, democratic, citizen oriented police service is being secured through high level of training and education that follows defined standards and is actually being subjected to constant analysis, high level of work and educational profile definition, constant curricula development and good training and educational methodology.

Integrity and capacity of Ministry of Interior's institutions and individuals - police officers is constantly improving within the training and educational system by providing certain certificates of successful completion for a full range of courses, reassert and development and scientifically development for the Ministry, publishing and library sector etc.  

Underlying values that are basis for the police training and education are as follows:

-         Adjustment to modern democratic values;

-         Legality - full respect of internal and international judiciary;

-         Political neutrality;

-         Professionalism and impartiality;

-         Scientific establishment;

-         Rationalism, complying to the highest level of judicial and financial responsibility;

-         Relevance following evaluation and self evaluation;

-         Efficiency and effectiveness;

-         Life-long learning and improvement;

-         Ethical values relevant for the police work and teaching and scientific process;

-         Citizen cooperation, associations, government and non-government organizations etc.

-         Working transparency, openness and civil society cooperation;

-         International cooperation.

Achieving these values shall also secure a process of coordination with European and world standards in the field of police work and education and this process is going to be constantly reconsidered and improved.

2.       DESIGN OF THE SYSTEM

 During 2006 project development for the constitution of the system should be carried out. These projects will offer quite cheaper and better solutions from the current ones. They will be carried out in the following fields:

-         Institutional organization;

-         Education for police needs;

-         Scientific-research work;

-         Development of different kinds of standards;

-         Development of strategies related to education, science, recruitment and career management;

-         Development of methodology for the evaluation of the institutional efficiency

-         Development of methodology for the evaluation of educational and scientific effects (police education quality control system).

2.1. Structure of a research team

Research team should include experts with sufficient teaching experience and competence, as well as design experience. It is of great significance that following groups participate in the designing: teachers from The Police College, The Police Academy and other educational institutions, experts from The Ministry of The Interior, prominent scientific personnel from Universities, international experts recommended by OSCE, OSCE representatives and representatives from The Council of Europe.

     2.2. Educational aims

The most significant global aims of design are as follows:

-         Defining the working and educational profiles for the Ministry of Interior's needs;

-         Establishment of directed, efficient, cheap and flexible police training and education system in compliance with the European systems;

-         Establishment of the modern training and educational organization;

-         Curricular constitution of the training and educational system that is scientifically based with special emphasis on acquiring knowledge and skills with the highest level of transfer;

-         Constituting of system for training, education, science, business, resources and staff management;

-         Education of personnel in order to support new technologies of police work;

-         Establishment of new system of values and proactive professional culture among attendants and students;

-         Establishing new educational technologies supported by educational software together with the software for evaluation of the educational level;

-         Implementation of internal and external control and evaluation of a system on regular basis

                In the course of the process, aims of the project shall be defined as well.

       2.3. Methodology 

Design of the police education system would have to be based on scientific methods, especially on the following:

-         Phenomenological analysis of jobs and tasks;

-         Functional analysis of jobs and tasks;

-         Hypothetical and deductive investigative methods;

-         Developing methods (organization, business system, assessment of the educational effectiveness, standards, SWOT analysis);

-         Methods of mathematical analysis;

-         Methods of scientific and educational contents analysis related to the Serbian and The Ministry of Interior’s development strategies;

-         Scientific methods and procedures related to the assessment of reliability and validity of the indicators for the general assessment and monitoring of the educational and training system.

       2.4. Management of the strategy

Analyses of current situation show that there are significant possibilities for improving of the training and educational system. All papers related to the European institutional reform process and our institutional reform process recommend institutional efficiency, openness, correlation, and high level of internal and external control. Results of the analysis of current situation as well as European papers related to the issue of institutional reform impose establishment of unique training and educational system for The Ministry of Interior.

In the process, the most important thing is to accurately define and successfully achieve the process of transforming the Police High School into the Basic Training Center, the Police College and the Police Academy into the self-sustainable higher-education institution and also, to build the police educational system network, in compliance with the Law on Police and the Law on Higher Education.  

     2.5. Mandate of the institutions

The system is going to have a mandate on the following issues: training and education of the personnel for the MoI and all other security bodies (judiciary, tax/revenue officers, agencies, security agencies), scientific-research in the field of crime investigation, security and law enforcement, publishing and librarian science and international cooperation from the relevant field.

    2.6. Organizational structure

Training and educational system shall consist of the following: authorized department/unit from the MoI[1] Headquarters, Police Basic Training Center[2], training center network and independent higher education institution of professional and academic studies[3]. 

Authorized department from the MoI Headquarters shall monitor and develop the education and training system, putting additional emphasis on the control and coordination of the training centers, that is to coordinate cooperation between MoI and higher education institutions.

It shall be in charge of and responsible for the following: providing outline for general educational guidelines, monitoring, supporting and coordinating in the field of training and education, providing international cooperation, granting training program licenses, trainer licensing, providing support for design and evaluation of curricula etc.

Basic police training shall take place in the basic police centers located in Sremska Kamenica [4]and in Southern Serbia[5] (Vranje, Nis and other) depending on the curricula.   

Specialized training will take place on basic, intermediate and advanced level, following custom-made curricula. Participants that have completed the basic police training are going to attend specialized training in order to prepare themselves for general policing, traffic, border and criminal policing, security jobs, gendarmerie, special forces, police management etc. Specialized training is going to be conducted in relevant training centers, located and constructed according to the particular project.

Professional development is a special form of training, designed for every employed police officer and achieved through specially created curricula for lifelong development. 

Basic level development shall be organized at the local training centers and under the supervision of the regional Secretariat and Police Station.

Medium and advanced (specialized training) development shall be organized at the training centers and some aspects of the training shall be organized under the supervision of higher education institution.

Progressive level development (VI, VII and higher grades) shall be organized under the supervision of a higher education institution.

Higher education institution shall be designed and founded on scientifically based methods, in compliance with the law. This institution can be divided into different groups, according to the needs of the criminal investigation police, uniformed police, intelligence service, public administration, alternative security entities etc.

The higher-education institution shall be founded and shall function within the higher-education system and shall comply with the Law on Higher Education in order to be able to meet all accreditation demands and to become a part of the University. Scientific-research work shall be organized by the higher-education institution and in compliance with the Law on Scientific Research Work. Additional legal acts shall define functional relationship between this institution and the MoI.

2.7. Curricular system design

Curricular System Design shall comply with this strategy as well as to the users needs.

3.      IMPLEMENTATION OF DESIGNED SOLUTIONS

4.      BASES FOR CHANGES

Bases for the design of this Strategy consisted on the following:

                                              I

a)      Current condition in Serbian police training and education.

Police education in Serbia is being conducted in three independent and separate institutions: the Police High School, the Police College and the Police Academy. The Police High School in Sremska Kamenica trains police officers for the basic police duties, that is to say, it provides them with the High School Degree (educational qualification: IV grade). The Police College trains future members of the MoI mainly for the positions of lawyers (educational qualification: VI grade). The Police Academy trains future police officers to become certified police officers (educational qualification: VII/1 grade). Each institution possesses logistics, pupils and students issues board and research and publishing activities on its own. The Police High School and the Police College are components of the organizational structure of the Ministry of Interior. In formal legal terms, The Police Academy is not a part of the MoI and of the University although it educates personnel solely for the MoI needs. Training center that incorporates training center network is being a component of the MoI's organizational structure.

Training for police officers (basic training course), border police and gendarmerie is being organized in the training centers (Makis, Klisa, Mitrovo Polje, Kula etc.).

Specialist courses and seminars (professional development) for the MoI needs are being organized in The Police College.

b)      New trends in the European civil and police education

European education is being reformed in order to harmonize to the Bologna Declaration and police education also acknowledges this process. On the other hand, European approach is to promote regional and global harmonization as well as the process of police training standardization.

European and world police educational system is being subjected to reform process, applying same documents and standards from the civilian sector except for the fact that police education follows additional regulations with regards to specific features of police profession, that is, police education. New millennium era intensified social and technological changes in all domains, including educational and again, the need for the European and world police educational reform is being under the spotlight one more time, especially if one bears in mind the new role of the police in the society. Namely, police accepts to be more of a service and the cooperation between the police and the community as well as with other entities intensifies. The need for social competency and the level of expert knowledge is growing in order to be able to complete even the most complicated tasks in the new social environment. Recognizing social and technological changes, different police departments start the process of the service reorganization and reform in the educational system. The prevailing attitude is that police is being specialized. Thus, general strategy is to organize education according to the needs of the individual working profile, using modular courses and corpus of relevant sciences. Multi modular approach implies additional specialization for a certain number of students within a course of study, offering a group of optional courses that will address certain issues from various scientific and police fields more thoroughly. The main orientation in today's world is to organize education through independent higher education institution that shall be responsible for the police curricula. During the educational police reform process, other countries experiences and guidelines related to the issue of modern police education shall be applied.

c)      Guidelines for the educational reform in Serbia

The Law on Higher Education introduced on September 10^th 2005 defined guidelines for the educational reform in Serbia. This Law outlines professional and academic studies, European credit transfer system, facilitation of lecturers and students exchange, classifies higher-education institutions, defines obligatory accreditation according to certain criteria, standards, procedures and deadlines etc. For the first time, the Law on Higher Education considers establishing and work of higher-education institutions in order to fulfill curricula for police educational needs as well as the options for integration of these institutions into the university structure.[6]

All higher education institutions in Serbia shall be subjected to the evaluation of curricula, training aids, personnel, resources and accreditation. Also, institutional membership shall be defined. All institutions that fail to pass evaluation tests shall not be granted further accreditation.

II

a)      OSCE and the Council of Europe reports regarding the police education in Serbia

OSCE and the Council of Europe have analyzed the state of Ministry of Interior and our educational institutions and they have issued guidelines for the reform process.

b)      Curricula

During former curricula development for training and education, there has been a lack of the scientific methodology, as well as precise definition of work profile. For this reason, it was not possible to define educational profiles properly.

c)      Training aids and training of teachers and trainers

Up to this moment, training and education has been executed mainly by using the traditional teaching methods and training aids. Generally, teaching has been executed 'ex cathedra' and little attention has been given to the psychological and other student and pupil's features, as well as to the didactic and methodological demands of the modern teaching process. The supervising and evaluation process has not been in compliance with the modern standards.

Up to this moment, no contemporary system of continual trainers and lecturers training and development in the fields of methodology of training and education, adult learning and pedagogy has been established, although present in developed European countries.

d)      System of supervising and development of personnel

The Ministry of Interior has no system of supervising and development of personnel. Career development options for university graduates fails to meet police work demands, thus discouraging development of higher education institutions engaged in specialized Program for the Ministry of Interior.

Training and education system also failed to establish supervising and development method for the personnel, especially in the field of admittance, development and improvement.

e)      Accommodation capacity and other

The Police High School and the Police College possess basic premises for educational purposes, as lecture theatres, classrooms, lecture-halls, libraries, offices, boarding houses and other additional premises. However, in order to be able to provide high-quality education, these institutions shall need additional premises, specialized premises and the equipment. Also, modern, multimedia educational aids, updated literature and fully development of current and new objects and laboratories shall be needed. Thus, all these objects shall meet modern educational demands. The Police Academy possesses no premises on its own. Instead, they are forced to rent necessary space. Also, the issues of premises and infrastructure for police training centers are not solved.

Each institution possesses a library on its own, as well as the publishing sector. In every institution, the majority of courses offer textbooks of its own, which is not a rational and functional solution.

f)        Educational costs

The above mentioned training and education system is very expensive and not very rational as well. Redoubling of similar curriculum and publishing activities in the Police College and the Police Academy, the fact that research work is not being synchronized, the existence of three logistics and administrative departments, increased maintenance and security expenses, as well as heating and other expenses, show how inefficient and unsustainable this system is.

5.      CONSTRAINS TO DEVELOPMENT

While designing a new training and education system, one should bear in mind the most important development constrains and they are as follows:

-         Absence of the system of supervising and development of the personnel (in order to allow career advancing) discourages The Ministry of Interior’s personnel to attend various courses and seminars or to complete specialized training programs for MoI's needs;

-         The importance of training and education for the MoI's development has not been fully appreciated;

-         Full acknowledgement of the fact that meeting high training standards and senior officers accountability for these processes is still not reinforced or spread;

-         Property disputes over training centers premises;

-         Absence of infrastructure in the training centers and the higher education institution;

-         Absence of licensed trainers, instructors and mentors that should pillars of the training for the MoI's needs;

-         Absence of financial and other resources for training and educational capacity building;

-         Absence of financial and other resources in order to intensify and improve training and education;

-         Absence of systematic approach to the reimbursement of MoI's specialists engaged in the training process which diminishes or brings into question the training standards in the MoI;

-         Insufficient level of international cooperation in the field of training and education.

In order to develop training and education system in more details, it is necessary to complete qualitative and quantitative analysis of the current condition and positions of police officers (at all levels) in the future. Also, it is necessary to complete a functional analysis as well as to develop education and working profiles.   

6. BASIC PRINCIPLES FOR CHANGES

With respect to the international criteria for quality, efficiency, cost-effectiveness, actuality and liability related to the development of the police personnel (development of personal integrity and capacity), in order to eliminate current restraints and to promote sustainability of future solutions, principles of the changing process for the development of new solutions are as follows:

     A. Principles of efficiency and sustainability

-         Efficiency in education and research of an institution;

-         Efficiency in economic aspects of an institution;

-         Efficiency of personnel in an institution;

-         Efficiency of  management in an institution;

-         Continuous improvement of education;

-         Continuous development of learning methods, motivation and capacity for independent learning;

-         Correspondence between reform activities and modernization;

B. Principles of commensurability and compatibility

-         Institutional correlation between police education and research institutions and Serbian educational system;

-         Institutional correlation between Serbian and European police education and research institutions;

-         Police higher education curricula harmonization with the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).

C. Principles of scientific approach, grading and flexibility  

-         Systematic approach and the use of scientific-research methodology for the design of the police education system;

-         Grading of basic police education;

-         Modular scheme grading system for professional and academic studies;

-         Definition of working profile parameters with the help of relevant scientific methodology in order to meet market and the MoI's demands;

-         Definition of educational profile parameters with the help of relevant scientific methodology in order to meet social and MoI's demands;

-         Use of scientifically verified methodology for the definition of curricula and student's courses of study;

-         Guidance and specialization during studies;

-         Vertical and horizontal alignment within an educational system.

 D. Principles of minimum police educational requirements for personal  

                         capacity and integrity development

-         Educational content design with the aim of providing students and participants with necessary familiarity with the social and judicial aspects of police work as well as with the law enforcement procedures;

-         Relevant knowledge related to the police institutions and their correlation with social surroundings, personnel (police culture, anthropological and social competency and personal integrity of the staff) as well as with the consequences of their work;

-         Relevant knowledge related to the police affairs and procedures;

-         Relevant knowledge related to the current informational technologies and other technical equipment;

-         Relevant knowledge related to the IT procedures and crime-detection methods;

-         Relevant knowledge related to the police management, organizational chart, organizational behavior, resources, personnel and procedures;

-         Relevant knowledge related to the ordinary, organized, financial, cyber and environmental crime;

-         Relevant knowledge related to the crime etiology and phenomenology;

-         Relevant knowledge related to the crime control;

-         Relevant knowledge related to the psychological, psycho-pathological, pathological and sociological profile of perpetrators;

-         Relevant knowledge related to the features and origin of data;

-         Relevant knowledge related to the collection, analysis and presentation of criminal and intelligence data;

-         Relevant knowledge related to the planing, execution and oversight of operations as well as the analysis of the effectiveness of used tactics and methods;

-         Relevant knowledge related to the human rights;

-         Relevant knowledge related to the police ethics;

-         Relevant knowledge related to the deontology;

-         Relevant knowledge related to the ethnic relations;

-         Relevant knowledge related to the domestic violence;

-         Relevant knowledge related to the public relations;

-         Relevant knowledge related to the conflict prevention.

E. Principles of Quality Management

-         Develop evaluation methods and standards for acquired knowledge and correlate them with career prospects;

-         Develop evaluation standards for the educational process;

-         Develop evaluation standards for scientific-research work and teaching procedures for lecturers and researchers;

-         Develop evaluation standards for textbooks;

-         Develop relevant management models for the educational and research quality control;

-         Evaluate designed solutions;

-         Make a selection of the most qualified teaching staff and research workers from police education institutions in order to be responsible for implementation and evaluation process.

6.      SCIENCE AND RESEARCH

Funding of police, security and criminal phenomena research is being increased constantly, worldwide. Where the level of relevant research methods and obtained knowledge is acceptable, the both shall be intensified and the following shall be emphasized:

-         Strategic issues related to the police development;

-         Police organizational issues;

-         New policing technologies;

-         Fundamental investigation related to all aspects of criminal behavior;

-         Research in forensic science;

-         Developing operational plans and strategies;

-         Developing new analytical methods;

-         Developing new methods and techniques for fight against all aspects of criminal behavior;

-         Developing new techniques for trace evidence analysis;

-         Developing new criminal investigation techniques;

-         Developing new methods for all fields of work for police officers in uniforms;

-         Developing new educational and training techniques;

-         Assess the level of application of methods from various fields of policing;

-         Developing models for preventive police work;

-         Police management (personnel, resources, fieldwork, crisis situation, management software etc.)

-         Social and anthropological police competence.

 Regardless the fact that we want to integrate our science into European scientific area, the above mentioned aspects of the research should be at the top of the agenda for our scientific research development processes and plans during the next ten years.

Research activities shall be evaluated according to widely accepted university criteria.

8.      NORMATIVE STANDARDS AND SOLUTIONS

8.1 Setting norms for training and education

Various by-laws for closer definition of training and education system will be completed during 2006, especially the following:

-         Book of regulations on professional development and training of the MoI members and officer training allowance;

-         Book of regulations on curricula, procedures and strategies for professional development of interns and professional test taking;

-         Book of regulations on professional training and development participant's rights, duties and responsibilities;

-         Selection criteria workbook for future participants of professional training;

-         The Republic of Serbia Government's decision to establish higher-education institution for police education professional studies (colleges and faculties);

-         Government enactment specifying general terms of study and curricula options for MoI's needs, position of a teacher and a student and all distinctions related to the aims and nature of police education;

-         Statute of a higher education institution;

-         Book of regulations on Higher education institution job systematization;

-         Agreement between the Government and the University in order to include higher education institutions into the university system;

-         Agreement between the MoI and a higher education institution to start cooperation and establish functional connections.

8.2.              Standards for the selection of students and participants

By the end of 2006, new standards shall be established as well as criteria and procedures for the selection of students (by the end of the year) and participants of the training (by May 2006), according to European experience and local needs.

8.3.              Standards for training and education

By the end of 2007, following standards shall be defined and applied:

-         Training standards for necessary infrastructure and equipment usage in various training centers;

-         Standards for instructors and trainers;

-         Standards for mentors;

-         Standards for curricula;

-         Standards for knowledge and skill check-ups;

-         Standards for license issuing and prolonging procedures for various police specialties etc.

The Law on Higher education and the standards based on the Law shall be applied to the higher education institution.

9.                  NEW TRAINING AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS

Basic Police Training Program will be completed by September 2006. Police High School teachers (organized into teams), OSCE experts, representatives from the Police Directorate and other police service users will participate in the process (started at the beginning of 2005). 

Programs for police officer’s specialized basic training (entry requirement for certain lines of work) will be updated during 2006, and during 2007 new programs will be designed and they will be based on the new Basic Police Training Program and according to the new methodology of teaching.

Other training programs will be designed accordingly.

Updating of curricula for professional and continuing studies (in-service training) has started. Updated curricula will be introduced during 2006. (I phase of transition process). During 2007 this program will be adjusted to the new concept. Until then, acceptable number of trainers will be trained for program implementation.

Evaluation and updating will follow after every generation completes Basic Police Training Program or any other course.

During 2006 and to the beginning of April 2006, education activities (courses of study) shall be carried out through academic and professional career courses in two stages, first and second stage of study[7] and based on the approved and/or accredited study programs and modern methodology of curricula development.

Implementation process of these solutions involved all higher education teaching staff, trainers, instructors and mentors. The process of implementation shall continue until 2010, when all programs should reach stabile phase.

10. VALIDITY AND FEASIBILITY OF THE REFORM

This chapter shall identify partners and conditions that have to be addressed in order to introduce institutional and curricular training and educational reform that shall comply to the needs and possibilities of our state as well as to the European Union standards.

 10.1. Validity of training and education reform

Main social, state and MoI's interest is to introduce training and education system that shall be:

-         Efficient in economic and organizational terms;

-         Flexible in curricular and cognitive terms;

-         Oriented towards university education;

-         Incorporated within police education system worldwide;

-         Open and orientated towards internal and external inspection and continuous development;

-         Integrated into the civil society with special emphasis on proactive professional culture of police officers, based on the new system of values.

It is in general interest of the society to select candidates from the population of adults that have already completed their high school education and meet other general requirements defined by the Law. Substitution of high school education for Basic Police Training shall reduce training duration, disburden training process, separate training from high school education, reconnect training with every day police activities and general quality of the training shall be increased.   

Introduction and constant improvement of professional training and development carried out under the guidance of police officers that have become licensed instructors, trainers and mentors shall improve the training process, police work and MoI's work as well.

Integration of the Police Academy and the Police College shall unite all resources (personnel, infrastructure, facility etc) and in this way, studying costs shall fall and quality shall rise. Scientific approach to design of curricula and specialization processes shall provide efficient implementation of high quality curricula subjected to constant evaluation and updating.

10.2. Feasibility of training and education reform

Transformation of the Police High School can be carried out only if following prerequisites are met:

-         Preparation of high quality curricula;

-         Serious reconstruction of infrastructure;

-         Procurement of high quality training aids and equipment;

-         Availability of trained personnel in the Basic Police Training Centers and police stations.

Serious reconstruction of infrastructure in Sremska Kamenica can be carried out only if following prerequisites are met:

-         Raising financial means[8];

-         Evacuation of the premises for the period of three months (during summer break of school from May to September 2006). As OSCE requested, preliminary project has been prepared and the main project of reconstruction is in progress.

During the transition process, in the first phase (until August 2009), two parallel training and education processes shall be carried out simultaneously: new concept training and high school education. This may imply that a part of the training would have to be carried out outside the S. Kamenica premises.

New training program necessitates detailed planning for possible solutions of the status of the Police High School employees: majority of teachers will be trained for trainers, mentors, instructors and they will complete their own basic police training course. Majority of people from logistics department will keep their main duties in the new organizational structure of training centers. Remaining personnel shall be assigned to other MoI's organizational units accordingly.

 For additional training courses new curricula and network of training centers would have to be designed according to relevant analysis. This shall require additional resources (finances, infrastructure etc.). Optimal solution for this problem would be to use free military resources.

Having in mind that the Police Academy is left without any premises, the headquarter of future independent higher education institution shall be in Zemun, 196 Cara Dusana St. (premises of the Police College at the moment). Integration of the Police College and the Police Academy and the process of modern education principles introduction requires additional premises, infrastructure, equipment and training aids investing as well as the reconstruction of existing capacities. Optimal solution for this problem would be to use military resources in the vicinity of the Police College (barracks temporarily occupied by refugees-families of military staff).

Establishment of the new higher education institution can cause problems between the Police College and the Police Academy. New status of employees, especially new status of the teaching staff can lead to high drop-out rate if their rights are not protected in fully by the Inaugural Act. Therefore, the Inaugural Act has to be designed with utmost care in order to secure legal framework for this transition (Police College and Police Academy as a universal legal predecessors and future independent higher education institution as legal successor). Also, the Inaugural Act has to secure continuation of existing Police College and Police Academy curricula, introduction of new curricula and legal security for the personnel.

This can be secured with following actions:

-         New institution is a complete legal successor of the Police Academy and the Police College (with all rights and responsibilities). Prerequisite is that the MoI and the Police Academy settle all their financial claims;

-         In addition to implementation of the new curriculum for police education (according to Article 40 of the Law on Higher Education), new institution has to allow to all remaining students to complete their studies under the old curricula and time limitations specified by the Law[9];

-         New institution shall take over all infrastructure, premises, equipment and archive of the Police College and the Police Academy;

-         New institution and the MoI shall take over personnel from the Police College and the Police Academy according to the qualifications of the personnel and their own needs;

-         Financing of the new institution shall be organized according to the Law on Higher Education and the MoI shall provide financial and organizational support as well;

-         Scientific research on criminal investigation, security and police issues, as well as in other areas shall be organized in the new institution for the needs of MoI and other users.

By doing so, full harmonization with the Serbian educational system shall be completed.

Until all enrolled students at the Police College and the Police Academy complete their education (by the end of 2011), new higher education institution shall have to use two old curricula together with the new ones. This shall lead to additional demands in logistics, infrastructure and personnel. Additional space can be obtained with the reconstruction of the campus from the Police College (small scale investments and relocation of the students to other campuses under the supervision of Belgrade University will be required). However, permanent solution could be found if the barracks across the Police College change their purpose and this can be accomplished if the state institutions in charge agree on the issue. For this solution additional serious resources would have to be obtained.  

New study program will require a detailed perception of possible personnel problems, especially the planning of the future status of all staff on the Police College and the Police Academy: teachers and associates in training will continue delivering training according to the defined study programs (existing Curricula of Police College and Academy, i.e. new study programs) on a new High Educational Facility. A part of non-training personnel will have similar function in the new training facility, while others will be redeployed to other organizational units of the MoI, according to the level of their education, working ability and needs.

             10.3. Dynamics

The reform process will be projected on the basis of the adopted strategy and a detailed dynamic plan will be defined, as well as pillars and responsibilities for completing all measures and activities. However, it is necessary to complete all activities in the school year 2005/06 and start a process of accreditation of the new higher education institution. Special attention must be given to the legal obligation of the Police College to submit the accreditation[10] application in due time, as well the obligation of the Police Academy to get accredited at the same time in order not to be left out of the reform process.

     Belgrade

     December, 15^th 2005