Entry Pathways

There are four pathways for entry into the Associate Degree in Policing Practice:

1. Full-time on campus

Sessions 1 and 2 will be conducted at specialist NSW Police College training facilities. Part or all of this may be at Goulburn, but depending on the needs of NSW Police Force at any given time, you may also be required to complete part of your training at a Sydney facility. More detailed information will be supplied if you are made an offer to the course.

Course code: KAPP

All students studying full-time on campus receive a $100 a week Travel & Accommodation Scholarship.

2. Part-time by distance education

A combination of two 14 week sessions of home-based study and one 14-week session at the NSW Police College in Goulburn.

Course code: EADP

3. Recognition of current competency (RCC)

If you have completed a degree in a study area DIRECTLY related to policing, you may be eligible for RCC, meaning you enter the ADPP in Session 2.

If not already undertaken, you may have to complete an 80-hour police placement prior to the commencement of Session 2. RCC entry eligibility may also include people with a minimum of one year’s previous/present operational policing experience (after the completion of probation), including interstate and overseas.

Depending on an applicant’s previous policing work experience, academic studies and period of time since last employed as a police officer, an applicant may be required to undertake supplementary subjects in addition to those in Session 2.

All RCC applicants will be required to successfully complete Sessions 2, 3, 4 and 5.

Course code: KAPP

4. CSU’s Bachelor of Justice Studies (Policing)

The Bachelor of Justice Studies (Policing) course leads into Session 2 of the Associate Degree in Policing Practice after two years of full time study at Bathurst and residential schools at Goulburn.

Students who have recently completed their High School Certificate usually expect to undertake the Bachelor of Justice Studies (Policing). For information about this course please contact:

info.csu
Phone: 1800 443 306
or visit the Online Course Brochure