UWS has a long-standing
reputation in the delivery of professionally relevant courses in the area
of criminology and justice studies.
Our courses are underpinned by our strengths in the social sciences,
including sociology, psychology and social policy. This approach will
equip you with the critical thinking skills, while at the same time
allowing you to tailor your studies around vocational goals.
There is emerging
recognition by police and by the community that contemporary policing is a
vocational and professional field in its own right. Our accredited
Policing program reflects the trends in modern policing by incorporating
subjects in strategic and applied policing and policing practice with
related studies from the behavioural sciences, the humanities, the human
services, law and the social sciences.
Eighteen probationary constables recently graduated
with a Bachelor of Policing from the University of Western Sydney.
The graduates completed two and a half years of study at the
university's Milperra campus before entering the Police College to
gain the necessary practical and operational policing training. |
An integral component of the degree has been the involvement of former
and current serving officers as lecturers and tutors. Their experience and
knowledge is imparted and combined with more academic analysis of issues
directly relevant to policing activities.
The number of students enrolled in the degree has steadily increased since
1999 to 70 in the year 2002. Another 70 will commence the course
this year (2003).
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This small group of recently attested probationary
constables were the first to complete the degree. |
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