UNIVERSITY OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION AND POLICE STUDIES

THE UNDERGRADUATE VOCATIONAL STUDIES OF CRIMINALISTICS

Course:

General Professional Training and Professional Forensic Science Practice

Course Code: S2V2

ECTS: 2

Number of Effective Classes (Per Week): 1

Theoretical Education:

Practical Training:

Special Forms of Training:

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Prerequisite/s: None

Educational Objective: For the students of Police and Security Module: The course aims to acquaint students with the organization of Regional Police Directorates, their status and role in providing protection and security. The course enables students to directly link theoretical knowledge obtained at University of Criminal Investigation and Police Studies to hands-on performance of police officials employed in General Police Directorate responsible for carrying out regular and emergency police duties.

For the students of Forensic Science Module: The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the organization of Regional Police Directorates, their status and role in providing protection and security, as well as to acquaint them with the practical tasks and duties performed by the employees of the Crime Investigation Police Department, i.e. to broaden previously acquired theoretical knowledge and offer insight into the skills and knowledge necessary for carrying out regular and emergency duties of the Crime Investigation Police Department.

Projected Outcome: Upon completion of General Professional Training and Professional Forensic Science Practice, students:

  • will be acquainted with the organization and competences, duties, conditions and functioning of Regional Police Directorates;

  • will gain insight into appropriate regulations, operational and other records, files, cases, plans, reports and other management regulations;

  • will know what types of official documents are made while performing duties in a Regional Police Directorate (official notes, records, reports, requests);

  • will be acquainted with planning, preparing and realizing specific regular and emergency police duties;

  • will develop belief in, commitment to, skills, responsibility and support for specific regime and methods of police duties, as well as respect for human rights and professional code of ethics;

  • will gain a comparative insight into educational profile of the students of University of Criminal Investigation and Police Studies, as well as into the job profiles of police officials.

Professional Practice Contents: For the students of Police and Security Module: Organization and competences of a police station; planning, organizing, coordinating and controlling the work in a police station; security situation in the district of a police station; disciplinary responsibility in a police station; organization and competences of a police station; planning, organizing and performing duties in a police station; surveillance of safety issues and events in the district of a police station; official notes; public gatherings; organization, duties and methods of duty performance in the security sector; planning, organizing, directing and controlling the work in the security sector; files of the sector; sector work plan; writing reports, keeping records, issuing certificates and other documents; attendance duties in a police station; records; apprehending and keeping a suspect in custody; registering and deregistering from the place of residence and temporary stays of citizens; issuing and replacement of ID cards; registering motor vehicles and issuing driving licenses; the process of issuing a travel document; requests for the provision and registration of weapons and ammunition; the method for determining the personal identification number; the process of applying for, granting and renouncing citizenship.

For the students of Forensic Science Module: The specificities of protecting a crime scene, protection of a crime scene of certain offences; inspection and search of motor vehicles; the report of the search and receipt of the temporary seized objects; methods of detecting pickpockets and less serious types of deception; means of perpetrating property crimes, as well as the most serious crimes; forensic methods of detecting and providing evidence in cases of murders and rapes and determining the causes of suspicious deaths, suicides and faked deaths (pseudocides); choosing, engaging and directing the work of police-operational linkages necessary for protecting certain safety- related places, objects and areas; securing crime scenes in open and closed spaces, as well as taking other operational tactical measures at the crime scene; crime scene investigation; crime scene investigation report, the report of the police interview, criminal charge,, filing a complaint on a police report; forensic methods for fixing traces, labelling objects and other evidence at the crime scene, taking long-range, mid-range and close-up photographs of the location and appearance of the crime scene, taking more detailed photographs; analyzing physical evidence found at the crime scene; official record of the forensic examination of the crime scene.

Teaching Methods: Frontal Instruction, Demonstration, Practicing skills, Realization of case study, Group work, Police desk duties in the school police station