UNIVERSITY OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION AND POLICE STUDIES

THE UNDERGRADUATE VOCATIONAL STUDIES OF CRIMINALISTICS

Course:

Elective Professional Training and Forensic Science Practice

Course Code: S2V3

ECTS: 1

Number of Effective Classes (Per Week): 1

Theoretical Education:

Practical Training:

Special Forms of Training:

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Prerequisite/s: None

Educational Objective: The course enables students to directly link theoretical knowledge acquired at University of Criminal Investigation and Police Studies to hands-on performance of police officials employed in Crime Investigation Police Department, i.e. to broaden previously acquired theoretical knowledge and acquire new practical skills and knowledge necessary for carrying out regular and emergency duties. The course also aims to enable students to more comprehensively master the course contents of vocational subjects so as to become more qualified for the work in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Serbia.

Projected Outcome:

The students:

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

  • 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 the Crime Investigation Police Department (official notes, records, reports, requests);

  • will be acquainted with planning, preparing and realizing concrete activities aimed at preventing, detecting, solving and proving a criminal offence (operational control, operational analysis);

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

Professional Practice Contents: Organization and competences of Crime Investigation Police; delivery and procedure of filing a criminal charge (record of the criminal charge delivery, official note); criminal charge against an unidentified person (procedure, report as an appendix to a criminal charge); procedure with regard to the request for gathering necessary information (report of the request for gathering necessary information); information gathering (summons for suspects/citizens, official note of the report submitted by citizens, official note of the information obtained from a detainee); criminal interrogation of a suspect (legal basis, procedure, interrogation report); apprehension (legal basis, procedure, apprehension and detention report); detention lasting up to 48 hours for the purpose of gathering information or interrogating (legal basis, procedure, decision on detention); crime scene investigation (report of the investigation); searches of premises with / without a warrant (legal basis, procedure, record of the search of premises, notice to occupier as the confirmation of entering premises, report of the performed search of premises without a warrant); search of persons (legal basis, report of the search of persons); temporary seizure of objects (legal basis, procedure, confirmation of the temporary seized objects); criminal register; operational information (creating, recording, procedure); police-operational linkages (informant, accomplice witness); forensic control; forensic examination; forensic examination plan; issuing wanted circulars for persons and objects; forensic operational records (types, use); investigative interviewing techniques and making reports; organization and duties of crime scene investigators in a police directorate; field work - conducting forensic investigation in daytime; securing a crime scene; crime scene investigation tools and equipment (performances of the dust lifter, vacuum box, forensic torch lights for examining crime scene, etc.); crime scene imaging methodology; investigation documentation; review of existing investigation documentation; case diary; photo laboratory; criminal registration - AFIS (Automated Fingerprint Identification System); dactyloscopic examination.

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