School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Operational Policing
  • Unit Code

    CRI3112
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Nikki RAJAKARUNA

Description

In this unit, students consider issues relevant to particular operational areas within policing. Although the areas examined will be dependent on current trends and initiatives, they will be examined within the context of an evidence-based policing paradigm and will emphasise human factors such as the relationship between emotional intelligence, self-awareness, communication styles and work outcomes. Example areas might be intelligence, dedicated human source management units, covert policing, traffic, local policing or investigations.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have completed a minimum of 120 credit points.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply theory and research to critically consider what constitutes effective policing within specific operational domains of policing (e.g. investigation, traffic, intelligence etc.).
  2. Recommend evidence-based solutions to contemporary operational policing issues.
  3. Develop well-reasoned evidence-based arguments regarding contemporary issues relevant to operational policing.
  4. Communicate ideas relevant to policing, using a specific structure and disciplinary conventions.

Unit Content

  1. Intelligence units.
  2. Training relevant to intelligence units.
  3. The special issue of human sources.
  4. Investigative strategies.
  5. Training relevant to the development of key investigative skills.
  6. Traffic police.
  7. Emotional intelligence.
  8. Self-awareness.
  9. Communications skills.
  10. Use of force.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit is conducted in both the on-campus and online modes. On-campus students attend a three hour seminar each week. Seminars are used to introduce the central concepts and literature relevant to Australia's policing bodies and their operations. The activities in the seminars provide students with the opportunity to discuss critical aspects of the content in greater detail and develop their communication and teamwork skills. The assessments allow students to demonstrate their content knowledge, critical thinking and develop their written communication skills. Online students are provided with an electronic version of the on-campus seminar and class activities. All information is delivered to online students via Blackboard. Regular online activities, delivered via the online modules and the discussion board, provide students with the opportunity to discuss critical aspects of the content in greater detail. Online tutorials using Adobe Connect Pro allow students to develop their communication and teamwork skills. The assessments allow students to demonstrate their content knowledge, critical thinking and develop their written communication skills. Regular online access is required.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentBriefing paper130%
PresentationBriefing presentation 120%
AssignmentBriefing paper 230%
PresentationBriefing presentation 220%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentBriefing paper 130%
PresentationBriefing presentation 1 20%
AssignmentBriefing paper 230%
PresentationBriefing presentation 220%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

CRI3112|2|1

School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Operational Policing
  • Unit Code

    CRI3112
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Nikki RAJAKARUNA

Description

In this unit, students consider issues relevant to particular operational areas within policing. Although the areas examined will be dependent on current trends and initiatives, they will be examined within the context of an evidence-based policing paradigm and will emphasise human factors such as the relationship between emotional intelligence, self-awareness, communication styles and work outcomes. Example areas might be intelligence, dedicated human source management units, covert policing, traffic, local policing or investigations.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have completed a minimum of 120 credit points.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply theory and research to critically consider what constitutes effective policing within specific operational domains of policing (e.g. investigation, traffic, intelligence etc.).
  2. Recommend evidence-based solutions to contemporary operational policing issues.
  3. Develop well-reasoned evidence-based arguments regarding contemporary issues relevant to operational policing.
  4. Communicate ideas relevant to policing, using a specific structure and disciplinary conventions.

Unit Content

  1. Intelligence units.
  2. Training relevant to intelligence units.
  3. The special issue of human sources.
  4. Investigative strategies.
  5. Training relevant to the development of key investigative skills.
  6. Traffic police.
  7. Emotional intelligence.
  8. Self-awareness.
  9. Communications skills.
  10. Use of force.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit is conducted in both the on-campus and online modes. On-campus students attend a three hour seminar each week. Seminars are used to introduce the central concepts and literature relevant to Australia's policing bodies and their operations. The activities in the seminars provide students with the opportunity to discuss critical aspects of the content in greater detail and develop their communication and teamwork skills. The assessments allow students to demonstrate their content knowledge, critical thinking and develop their written communication skills. Online students are provided with an electronic version of the on-campus seminar and class activities. All information is delivered to online students via Blackboard. Regular online activities, delivered via the online modules and the discussion board, provide students with the opportunity to discuss critical aspects of the content in greater detail. Online tutorials using Adobe Connect Pro allow students to develop their communication and teamwork skills. The assessments allow students to demonstrate their content knowledge, critical thinking and develop their written communication skills. Regular online access is required.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentBriefing paper130%
PresentationBriefing presentation 120%
AssignmentBriefing paper 230%
PresentationBriefing presentation 220%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentBriefing paper 130%
PresentationBriefing presentation 1 20%
AssignmentBriefing paper 230%
PresentationBriefing presentation 220%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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