Course content

Riot Police and SWAT Team Tactics in Crisis Situations

Code:

245388

Abbreviation:

SPEC -R

Higher education institution:

Police College

ECTS credits:

3.0

Load:

21(L) + 9(E)

Issuing teachers:

Senior Lecturer Marijan Jozić, PhD

Course contractors:

Senior Lecturer Marijan Jozić, PhD (L, E)

Course description:

To acquaint students with the tactics of intervention and special police in crisis situations, the adoption of specific elements of integrated police training that improve the level of situational efficiency of police officers in conditions of the most situational complexity

Mandatory literature:

Robert P. Cappel (1992): Priručnik za jedinice posebne namjene

Robert Benašić (1995): Taktika postupanja specijalnih postrojbi policije u rješavanju talačke situacije u zgradi: diplomski rad

MUP stručni priručnik (2013): Programi stručnog usavršavanja: knjiga 1

Marijan Jozić; Mijo Mendeš; Ksenija Butorac; Davor Solomun (2020): Utjecaj stresnih situacija na policijskog službenika u odnosu na procjenu situacije prilikom uporabe vatrenog oružja

Lav Kalda (1995): Obuka u gađanju

Learning outcomes:

1. familiarization with the organization and scope of activities of the special and intervention police

2. mastering the management and tactics of the special and intervention police

3. training of police officers and managers for management and action on the ground in crisis situations

4. raining of participants on police negotiation, crisis communication with tactical treatment of perpetrators in all situations

5. the ability to more easily master the everyday issues of police interventions of varying complexity

6. mastering and controling of potential reactions of police officers in stressful conditions of varying complexity

7. familiarization with the characteristics of material and technical means, special and intervention police equipment

8. acquisition of technical-tactical knowledge for overcoming obstacles, such as approaching an object, entering an object, moving from object to object, breaking into premises to intervene and save people's lives, overcoming various obstacles

9. Developing the predictive abilities of police personnel in the management of critical incidents, training for decision-making in the dynamic context of various crisis situations (hostage situations, situations with barricaded persons, etc., and the application of police negotiation through crisis communication)

10. assist all police officers (tactical entities) and police operators in planning successful police operations (command system, team structure, choice of weapons and equipment, team control and movement, operations planning, reporting and tactical advice

Course in study programme:

Code	Name of study	Level of study	Semester	Required/Elective
17	Module: Police	undergraduate	5	required

* the course is not taught in that semester

Legend

E - Exsercises

L - Lectures