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Unit Set Information

Policing Major

Effective from 01-JAN-2025 : Code MAAAIF

This major provides students with an understanding of the broad range of areas relevant to contemporary policing. Adopting a justice perspective, students acquire theoretical and practical knowledge in the business of policing and policing business. Particular areas of focus are intelligence, security, investigative practices, interviewing procedures, specialist policing units, and crime prevention and ethics. Although learning occurs within the context of an evidence-based policing paradigm, emphasis is placed on the practical skills relevant to this discipline area. The major is relevant to students with an interest in criminology and justice, but has a wider appeal to social work, psychology, security and students enrolled in the social sciences or humanities.

Disclaimer

This unit set 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. In particular please check the unit and unit set offerings, as these differ according to course delivery location.

This Major can be studied in the following courses:

• Bachelor of Criminology and Justice
• Bachelor of Laws/Bachelor of Criminology and Justice

Mode of Delivery

On Campus at Off Campus, Joondalup

Unit Set Coordinator

Dr Piero MORARO

Learning Outcomes

1. Apply broad discipline knowledge to a range of theoretical and practical issues in policing.
2. Think critically to identify, conceptualise and analyse complex issues in contemporary policing.
3. Think creatively to anticipate challenges to generate policing solutions and responses to crime.
4. Use digital technologies to access, evaluate and synthesise policing information.
5. Communicate knowledge of policing ideas clearly, coherently and with independence.
6. Demonstrate a global outlook with respect for cultural diversity, including Indigenous cultural competence.
7. Work collaboratively and demonstrate initiative to implement social, sustainable and ethical values in policing.
8. Demonstrate autonomy, responsibility and accountability for own learning in scholarship and professional practice.

Related Careers

State or Federal Police Officer, ASIO Officer, Private Security Officer, Security Services Officer, Policy Development Officer, Intelligence Officer

Employment Opportunities

Employment opportunities exist in law enforcement, as well as customs, state and federal police, state and national security, community services, sociology and youth work, public and private sector, Government agencies, research and universities, criminology, policy development, intelligence, crime analysis and restorative justice.

Major Structure

# Designated Unit - a Unit or Unit of Competency which a School has designated as a fundamental course requirement and may only be attempted once unless otherwise determined by the School Progression Panel.

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