DV TRAINING experience from the Czech Republic

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DV TRAININGexperience from the Czech Republic
Brno, 25.9.2016
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POLICE DV TRAINING
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Training of czech police officers

• Essential education Police High School
• 6 months of integrated education - basic
  service
• Further education - higher police positions
• Education of police officers in the field
• Each police region runs a school centre
• University degree Police Academy
• police officers
• civil students

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Training of police officers

• Esential DV education contains
• Theoretical lectures of psychology (8 hours)
• Theoretical lectures of law (4 hours)
• Practical training (model situation)
• Using the practice-flat
• With asistance of more police teachers(law,
  tactic, psychology)

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Training of police officers

• Additional training
• Depending on each Regional Police Force
• South Moravian Police Region
• 1 year after course
• on-going training for officers in the field
• cooperation with intervention centres
• model situations with evaluation

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LESSONS LEARNED

• recommendations based on our own experience with
  DV training

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LESSONS LEARNED - content

• Content of the trainig depends on various factors
  such as
• your position in the organization
• time given
• target group
• equipment available

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LESSONS LEARNED - organization

• Preferably small groups (up to 25)
• At the beginning give organizational info
• Total time, breaks, facilities, interruptions
• Homogenous groups
• patrols
• command centre
• criminal investigators
• management

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LESSONS LEARNED be aware

• Participants with obviously negative approach
• Teacher like approach be one of them
• Fluctuation (movement) of police officers
• Training of DV is long-term process including
• changing of minds (opinions)
• changing of attitudes

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LESSONS LEARNED - organization

• 2 lectors if possible
• Changing of voice
• Discussions
• Model (play role) situations
• premises suitable for play role approach
  (training flat / house)

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LESSONS LEARNED beginning

• Why you, why DV, what is the contribution for
  work
• Go real (avoid too much of theory)
• Examples, ilustrations and more examples
• Ask for officers experience
• Starting with short case studies
• decide DV yes/no why
• What the solution could be
• Warm up, difficult to decide, jump right to it

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LESSONS LEARNED content

• Real cases including the police procedures
• Give them to read and decide what was o.k. /
  wrong
• Ask what the correct solution would be
• Use the opposing opinions
• Guests from helping organizations
• Different point of view
• Who else is involved apart from us

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LESSONS LEARNED contact

• Ask officers to be involved in your training
  where possible
• Their experience
• Discussions / dissaproval
• Play role situations
• Questions not aswering directly but give the
  audience the opportunity to anwer
• Use video to corroborate your explanation

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LESSONS LEARNED

• Use utilities making it easier to understand
• Time table of eviction (example)
• List of steps (example)
• Use the feedback questionaries

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LESSONS LEARNED play role

• Difficult due to
• Organisation (place, script)
• At least 2 trainers involved
• Best possible way of delivering attitudes
• Personal experience with difficult situation
• Easy to remember later (in the field)
• Audience involved in evaluation
• Important to keep it real

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LESSONS LEARNED play role(how we do it)

• 2 officers from audience as patrol
• 2-3 trainers as family members (as real as
  possible)
• Before you start, explain how it goes
• Start by situation in the family without
  officers
• Patrol arrives (with info from the command
  centre)
• Patrol gathers information and evidence,
  solution, end
• Questions to family form audiance
• Paperwork

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LESSONS LEARNED play role(how we do it)

• Give some clues to patrol
• broken glas, belt on the floor, fake injuries
• Use circumstances making it more difficult
• Police officer as perpetrator
• Gun present at the crime scene (hidden)
• Not typical victims behaviour
• Not typical relation between victim and
  perpetrator

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LESSONS LEARNED play role(evaluation)

• good and bad aspects
• did they found and used the clues?
• Evaluation provided by
• 1. audience,
• 2. partol,
• 3. trainers
• Evaluate the feelings of both parties (violent
  person / perpetrator)
• Ask what was hard to do
• Involve the participant from helping organization

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LESSONS LEARNED play role

• Video sample

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Thank you for your attention

• Questions ?
• Contacts
• mjr. Mgr. Vladimír Vedra
• e-mail vlada.vedra_at_email.cz
• tel. [phone]