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English version
Police Education Council in a nutshell The Police Education Council is an independent governmental advisory body advising, both solicited and unsolicited, the Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and the Minister of Justice on matters of police education. In addition the council is a dialogue platform for stakeholders of Dutch police education. In January 2003 the Council was installed. The tasks and formal position of the Council are described in art. 14, 19, 20 and 21 of the Act on Police Education,. This Act regulates police education in terms of structure and functioning, tasks and responsibilities of the Tasks - contributing to the development and maintenance of a consistent, national qualification structure for police education;
- contributing to an adequate match between the supply of police education and the needs of police forces, reckoning with developments in police practice, labour market perspectives of students and relevant developments from an international perspective;
- formulating competence based exit qualifications, indicating what students should be able to do in actual practise, in addition to what students already should have learned in prior education;
- ensuring diploma equivalence of police education in relation to regular vocational and higher education (also in an international context);
- advising on quality criteria for dual education (learning at the workplace);
- advising on the government funding of police education and training, in order to contribute to an efficient and effective use of governmental financial means.
The Police Education Council has tasks which can be compared with the Dutch Educational Council (an advisory body of the minister of Education, Culture and Science) on the one hand and National Vocational Education Bodies (in England also called: Lead Bodies) on the other. Recommendations 2003-2007 Examples of incidental recommendations are: - Police education at level 1 of the qualification structure? (June 2004)
- The development and maintenance of the qualification structure (November 2004)
- Educational recommendations in relation to a GRECO –evaluation on combating corruption (October 2005)
- Letters of advice on qualifications in public safety (February, June 2006)
- Learning at the workplace within the frame of police education (June 2006)
- The perspective of co-education (co-operation between police education and regular vocational and higher education) (March 2007)
- Perspectives for police education in 2011 (June 2007)
- Police and multiculturality (February 2008)
In addition the council produced incidental explorative en evaluative studies, like: - A programmatic frame for the Police Education Council (September 2003)
- Reports on internationalisation and policing (January 2005; January 2007)
- Educating for public safety. In co-operation with the Dutch Society, Security and Police Foundation; SMVP0 (February 2006)
- Self evaluation Report of the Police Education Council (June 2007)
- A contribution to the development agenda of police education (September 2007).
- Aspects of multiculturality. Appendix of the advice Police and multiculturality (June 2008).
- A comparative analysis of competence systems (June 2008).
In 2009 two projects are foreseen: - an evaluation of learning in the workplace, from a perspective of an earlier advise on this subject
- competence based learning and examination.
Other projects may follow. The Council’s methodology Members of the Police Education Council In February 2010 the members are: Independent members
- mr. Prof. dr. J.M.G. Leune, chairman (em. Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam)
- mr. Prof. dr. W.J. Nijhof, vice chairman (em. Professor University of Twente; professor at Tyler Texas)
On behalf of the Board of Regional Police Force Managers:
- mr. Mr. A. Wolfsen (Police force manager of Utrecht, mayor of the city of Utrecht)
On behalf of the Board of Chief Commissioners
- ms. Mr. M.A. Berndsen (chief of police in Fryslân)
- mr. Mr. H.P. van Essen (chief of police in The Hague)
- vacancy
On behalf of the Public Prosecution Service
- mr. Mr. G.W. van der Burg (chief public prosecutor ‘s Hertogenbosch)
On behalf of the police trade unions:
- mr. H.H. Busker (chairman of the NPB)
- vacancy
On behalf of the Netherlands Association of VET Colleges (MBO Raad)
- mr. L. J. Molenkamp MPA EMPM (chairman of the executive board of Amarantis Education Group)
On behalf of the Netherlands Association of Universities of Apllied Sciences (HBO-raad) and the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU)
- ms. Drs. W.M.E. Teune-Kasbergen (member of the executive board of Fontys University of Applied Sciences)
On behalf of the Police Academy of the Netherlands
- mr. A.P.P.M. van Baal (chair of the executive board of the Police Academy)
- ms. A. Vellinga EMPM (vice chair of the executive board of the Police Academy)
Advising members:
On behalf of the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations:
- ms. Dr. B. Marsman
On behalf of the Ministry of Justice
- mr. Mr. S. Bruinsma
External experts:
- mr. D.H. Hilarides MCM
- mr. Dr. J. Prins
Secretariat of the Council General secretary of the Council, mr. Drs. H. Huisjes, MSM. Policy worker, mr. Drs. Th. G. Jansen Policy worker: mr. Drs. R. van Wijngaarden Management assistant: ms. M.B.J. Klaassen The address of the Secretariat of the Council is at Nassauplein 33, PO 84300, 2508 AH Den Haag. Tel. 003170 - 311 86 67. |
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