Higher Education and Police: An International View

Introduction: Higher Police Education - an International Perspective; Colin Rogers & Bernhard Frevel.- Part 1- Professionalization.- Education and the Police Professionalisation Agenda: a Perspective from England and Wales; Steve Tong and Katja Hellenberg.- Police Basic Training in Sweden - Vocational or Academic? An Educational Muddle; Anders Green.- The New Zealand Context: Finding Common-Ground in the Land of the Long White Cloud; Steven Darroch.- Part 2 Innovation.- The College of Policing: Police Education and Research in England and Wales; Colin Rogers and Beth Smith.- Police Higher Education in China; William Chen.- Higher Education and Democratic Policing: Challenges from Latin America; José Vincente Tavares dos Santos.- A Comparative Look on the Developments of Higher Education and Policing across Europe; Detlef Nogala & Andre Konze.- Part 3- Application.- Responding to Needs of Higher Analytical Competence in the Police: Master Programs at the Norwegian Police University College; Aun Hunsager Andresen and Nina Jon.- Starting as a Kommissar / Inspector? The State's Career System and Higher Education for Police Officers in Germany; Bernhard Frevel.- Higher Police Education in the Netherlands;Jan Heinen and Harry Peeters.- Down Under - Police Education at the Charles Sturt University, Australia; Tracey Green and Mick Corboy.