CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF POLICE TRAINING

Abstract

Contemporary security challenges necessarily impose the need for changes in conventional police action, which from "power with a stick" should change police in a partner of the community that will jointly deal with global security threats, especially after the events of September 11, 2001, have important changed the perception of what kind of security threats should be handled by police services around the world. Transnational organized crime and money laundering are only part of a series of complex criminogenic forms whose dealing without an exceptionally high level of professionalism and expertise will not achieve more than mediocre results in the pre-trial procedure, which is key to the further form of criminal legal effect of the crime. Professionalism and expertise as one of the basic competencies of the police officer, to deal not only with contemporary, but also with routine police activities, have their foundations in the police training where is the start of all preconditions that form professional police officer.