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| Main elements of the Diploma in Police Studies
The teaching for the Diploma in Police Studies is multi-method training. The Training includes lectures, demonstrations and practice in small groups as well as independent study. Use is also made of problem-based-learning (PBL) and online teaching. The Police College is developing blended learning methods. For example, people attending an expert lecture can communicate with each other using information and communications technology even if they are not in the same location.  Back | Print page
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The Diploma in Police Studies covers five areas: Field work, traffic, crime prevention, communications and data systems, and the use of force. Apart from the professional subjects in police training, the training includes legal studies and behavioural and communication sciences, such as psychology and language studies. During their training, the students undertake a language exam the aim of which is to prove the skills required of a public servant in the second of Finland’s two official languages (i.e. in Swedish or Finnish, whichever is not the student’s mother tongue).