IPoS activities connected with WebPol

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IPoS activitiesconnected with WebPol

in cooperation with the Police Forces of Bremen
and Bremerhaven
Final Conference Brussels, 17th December 2007
Institute of Police and Security Research Bremen
Prof. Dr. Luise Greuel, Sven Fasse Lars Küttner
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Overview

• IPoS
• Project activities of IPoS
• Training needs analysis
• Development of courses
• Pilot experience
• Implications

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IPoS

• Institute for Police and Security Research
• University of Public Administration Bremen
• Interdisciplinary Research Institute
• Applied research and development
• Transfer of scientific knowledge in police
  practice
• Interdisciplinary cooperation and communication

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Represented disciplines at IPoS

• Law Sciences
• Forensic Scienes
• Police Sciences
• Criminology

• Psychology
• Social Sciences
• Risk and Security Management
• Traffic and Transport
• Management Studies

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Main areas of research

• Crime analysis, e.g.
• Homicide
• Sexual assault
• Domestic violence
• Stalking
• Organized Crime

• Crime prevention
• Police-citizen-interactions, e.g.
• Police-citizen online survey
• Police culture and ethics

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Field of work

• Police training (University vocational training)
• Applied research
• Dissemination of scientific results
• Development of police strategies
• Evaluation of police work
• Establishment of multidisciplinary networks

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WebPOL - Project activities of IPoS

• Training needs analysis
• Development of e-learning courses
• Pilot experience
• Dissemination

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Training needs analysis

• Objectives
• Methods
• Results

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Objectives

• Gathering information
• regarding the individual and private PC-equipment
  and
• basic knowledge of the participating police
  officers in Bremen and Bremerhaven

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Objectives

• Exploration of
• the vocational training programs attended so far
  and
• the willingness of the respondents to use the
  instruments of e-learning for future education
  and training

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Objectives

• Examination of
• the thematic interests towards a possible future
  e-learning-project
• training needs

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Methods

• Kick-off workshop group discussion
• Development of a questionnaire according to the
  specific needs of the WebPOL-project
• Online survey (Bremen)
• Paper and pencil - questionnaire (Bremerhaven)
• Processing time 10-15 minutes

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Sample

• N348 of 2.878 police officers participated
• N 190 (55) uniformed police
• N 83 (24) criminal investigation department
• N 219 (62) Police forces of the city of Bremen
• N 129 (37) Police forces of the city of
  Bremerhaven

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Results

• PC-Equipment and Skills
• The majority of the participating officers
  indicated to dispose of sufficient PC-equipment
  and e-learning-related skills
• 91 PC-equipment at home (max. 2 Ghz)
• 87 Internet access at home (max. DSL)
• 97 Microsoft Office

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Results

• Vocational Training/ Learning Attitudes
• The majority of the participating officers
  indicated
• to have participated in a multiplicity of
  vocational programs so far and
• is willing to use e-learning for future training
  (83)

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Training focuses

• self protection
• changes in criminal law / latest court decisions
• crime prevention
• domestic violence and stalking

• communication and social skills
• road traffic issues
• use of force and firearms

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Development of e-learning courses
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Design andimplementation of e-learning modules

• Objectives
• close relation between results of the training
  needs analysis and choice of topics
• variety of different didactical designs
• compatibility for blended e-learning
  (combination of conventional methods and
  e-learning)

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Currently implemented e-learning modules

• Gesetzgebung online (new legislation
  stalking)
• Verkehrsrecht online (road traffic law)
• Kriminalprävention (crime prevention)
• Sondereinsatztraining (systemic approach use
  of force and firearms, self protection)

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Example

• The aspect of self-protection and use of force
  and firearms
• were covered within the Special Operations
  Training Unit (SET)

Handout page 7-8
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Example

• Set up for the module road traffic issues
  covered within the
• computer-based reference database Verkehrsrecht
  online

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Pilot experience
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Objectives and Design

• Combined approach
• generation of quantitative AND qualitative data
• Relevant aspects
• usability
• general level of satisfaction
• remarks and suggestions

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Methods

• Learning-modules were designed differently to
  determine possible preferences
• module crime-prevention extensive, theoretical
  content - no feedback-option
• module road traffic law reference database for
  officers with focus on practical use
• module new legislation stalking brief
  account of a current issue including a
  feedback-option

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Methods

• the first pilot sample consisted of three
  candidate-courses for the higher police service
  with 15-20 students each (blended learning)
• all courses were verbally instructed to operate
  freely on the learning-platform and make use of
  the various modules and functions available
• all courses were given about one hour to operate
  on the platform before starting the survey/ group
  discussion

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Qualitative approach

• Moderated group discussion
• Students were asked to
• describe their impressions
• make suggestions
• address questions to the instructors
• The results of the group discussion were
  journalised and categorized to allow further
  analysis

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Quantitative approach

• Questionnaire (survey function on platform)
• The questionnaire used to gather quantitative
  data consisted of six questions concerning
• overall impression
• graphical appearance
• usability
• level of experience regarding new media
• interest in further utilisation
• suggestions and remarks (open question)

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Results

• After revision of the journals that resulted
  from the group discussions / questionnaire, the
  following insights were gained
• positive tenor towards e-learning in general
• no serious problems regarding the usability of
  the platform
• sufficient experience in using new media

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Results

• popularity of the stalking-module (topical
  currency and feedback-option)
• sporadic critique regarding German plug-in
• suggestion to implement more multi-media content
• substantial interest in further utilisation
• Spontaneous usage of chatroom-function and email
  contacts

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Administrators suggestions

• insufficient plug-in (revision currently
  undergoing)
• insufficient protection of data-security
  (survey-function does not offer reliable
  anonymisation)
• survey-function does not meet scientific
  standards
• provided tools for module-creation are of limited
  use (lack of options)
• lack of back-up functions
• ATNOVA and IPoS are currently taking measures to
  find solutions to the problems mentioned above

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Preview

• After having solved the problems mentioned
  before, IPoS will
• implement further modules covering issues of
  police tactics in self protection, risk
  assessment in domestic violence and police
  interrogation which have already been developed
• organize a follow-up pilot experience with police
  officers throughout northern Germany
• organize a nation-wide dissemination conference
  in spring 2008

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Perspectives

• Adaptation of vocational training to blended
  learning approach
• Training of teachers and trainers in WebPOL
  application
• ?
• Integration of WebPOL as standard tool for
  vocational education and training in the police
  forces of Bremen and Bremerhaven

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