Students enrolled in the Policing course will study on the Bathurst Campus of CSU for their first two years and then transfer to the NSW Police College at Goulburn for Trimester 1 of the last year of their three-year program. This means that CSU’s graduates wishing to join the NSW Police Service will be sworn in as Probationary Constables at the end of the first trimester of their third year. The final two trimesters of the course are completed by distance education while employed as a Probationary Constable.
This degree has been designed with extensive consultation with police, the justice community and academics, to ensure it is vocationally relevant and up to date with latest issues. Community service and police practice placements give students a systematic introduction to the professional environment. The policing studies completed within the degree, plus a further trimester of study undertaken on campus at Goulburn, meet academic requirements for employment in the recruit training program of the NSW Police Force.
The first three years of your police career will normally be spent performing general duties in a Local Area Command (LAC), assigned on an elected preference basis, subject to NSW Police Force needs. The commencing salary for a Probationary Constable is approximately $50,000 p.a. (2008).
Policing provides a number of career paths including: community policing, investigations, intelligence, specialist and technical operations, and leadership and management.
CSU offers a number of courses designed to support policing career development.
These are closely aligned with industry needs and articulated with internal police service training programs.
The course is taught by dedicated professionals with a wide range of industry experience in law, corrections, criminology, psychology and sociology. They include:
Mr David Bull - interests include police-community relations, and police and the media.
Ms Libbie Douglass – interests include psychology, and psychology of crime.
Ms Rosalind Gibson - interests include criminal law, expert witnesses, wrongful conviction issues, repressed memory.
Dr Len Palmer – interest include sociology.
Ms Kate Seymour - interests include corrections, gender and crime and serving Police Officers from the NSW Police Force
The Bachelor of Justice Studies (Policing) is a nationally accredited and registered award in tertiary education. In combination with the Associate Degree in Police Practice, the degree is recognised by the NSW Police Service as meeting the academic requirements for entry to the NSW Police Force as a Probationary Constable.
To graduate, students must satisfactorily complete 192 points (25 subjects), including the practical subjects: PPP121, PPP123, PPP124, PPP125, PPP126, PPP231, PPP232, PPP241.
The following courses provide opportunities for further study in justice studies and criminology by course work and/or research:
Bachelor of Policing (Investigations)
Bachelor of Social Science (Justice Studies) (Honours)
Graduate Certificate in Criminology
Graduate Diploma of Investigations Management
Graduate Diploma of Leadership and Management (Policing)
Master of Leadership and Management (Policing)
| Study through | Bathurst |
| Study mode and normal course duration | 3 years full-time on campus 6 years part-time on campus |
| Course code | Full-time: 211887 Part-time: PAQS |
| Fees |
Commonwealth supported place |
| Session available | February (Semester basis) |
| Apply through | UAC - full-time on campus study CSU Admissions Office - part-time study |
| UAI cut-offs | 70.00 |
| Study through | N/A |
| Study mode and normal course duration | N/A |
| Course code | N/A |
| Fees | N/A |
| Session available | N/A |
| Apply through | N/A |
| UAI cut-offs | N/A |
The Bachelor of Justice Studies (Policing) consists of 25 subjects. Students take core subjects in sociology, psychology, politics, criminology and law, as well as a number of practical experience subjects and specialist policing subjects.
Session 1
JST104 Foundations of Criminology
JST107 Communication Processes
PSY111 Psychology for Health Services
SOC101 Introductory Sociology
Session 2
JST204 Crime, Delinquency and Social Welfare
JST222 Policing and Society
POL106 Government and Policing
PSY211 Psychology of Crime
Session 3
JST201 Criminal
Law and Process
JST205 Criminology
JST226 Introduction to Police Investigations
JST228 Policing and the Community
Session 4
JST225 Police Practicum
JST318 Human Rights and Policing
JST319 Evidence and Procedure
JST320 Drugs, Crime and Society
Session 5
(Studied full-time on campus at the NSW Police College, Goulburn)
PPP121 Simulated Policing (4 points)
PPP122 Police as Investigators
PPP123 Ethical Reasoning and Policing (ADPP)
PPP124 Police and Road Safety
PPP125 Police, Crime and Society (ADPP)
PPP126 Operational Safety and Tactics (4 points)
Session 6
(Studied by distance education whilst employed as a Probationary Constable)
PPP231 Practicum
PPP232 Police as Investigators (ADPP)
Session 7
(Studied by distance education whilst employed as a Probationary Constable)
PPP241 Problem-oriented Policing and Vulnerable Populations (ADPP)
To be admitted into the course, prospective students need to indicate their likelihood of success through:
Previous studies include:
NSW and interstate school leavers are normally selected on the basis of their Universities Admissions Index (UAI) or interstate equivalent. You may also be admitted on the basis of a strong performance in subjects relevant to your course preferences.
Currently no secondary school subjects are prerequisites for admission to particular CSU courses however some courses assume a certain level of knowledge. This will be specified in the course information if applicable.
Applicants will be deemed to have sufficient English proficiency if they:
All other applicants must explicitly demonstrate proficiency.
Acceptable tests for English proficiency
Any of the following results, attained within the last two years, can be used to demonstrate English proficiency:
An applicant who does not otherwise meet the University’s requirements may be admitted on the recommendation of the Dean of the appropriate faculty.
You may also be admitted to a course based on other attainments and experience. These may include:
CSU places great emphasis on services to its students. It is a leader in the provision of online services and, in particular, the use of the internet in the support of teaching, administration and communications with students.
The online environment is so integrated into all aspects of student life and the learning experience at CSU that the University now assumes that all on campus and distance education students at CSU will have ongoing access to an internet connected computer capable of communicating with CSU online systems.
Students enrolled in Information Technology subjects (i.e. with an ITC subject code) may be required to have additional hardware and/or software that is deemed essential for the completion of the learning activities in that subject.
Applicants will be selected on the basis of evidence for the likelihood of success, including:
In addition, students in Policing must satisfy NSW Police Force professional suitability arrangements. These include health and fitness criteria, citizenship and permanent residency status, criminal record and motor vehicle licence checks. Further information on professional suitability requirements are available at the following website: www.csu.edu.au/student/police
Students who fail professional suitability requirements will be offered a place in another CSU undergraduate course with relevant credit for their studies, provided they have maintained a satisfactory rate of progress.
Students should be particularly mindful of the physical fitness standards which must be achieved under the NSW Police Force Professional Suitability requirements. Students failing to achieve the requisite fitness standards prior to the completion of the second year will not be eligible to transfer to the Associate Degree in Policing Practice conducted in Goulburn to complete the course.
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