New developments in university education of statutory officers

Abstract

Statutory officers (the police officers and the state border guard officers) must be professional in order to do their tasks professionally. Overall, more highly educated statutory officers rated themselves higher in their responsibility to deal with criticism, change, workload, and stress. The trends and developments in higher police officer’s and the state border guard officer’s education in Lithuania have generally confirmed the principal challenges identified in the Bologna Declaration – standardizes and integrates the Lithuanian education in the European Higher Education Area. Higher education can best assist statutory officer’s in their great social work, by working with them to design, develop, deliver and evaluate full-fledged philosophies of police officer’s and the state border guard officer’s education. This paper is part of a larger study into university education for police officer’s and the state border guard officer’s managers and presents the preliminary findings of the study. The article strives to disclose the higher statutory officer’s education at the Faculty of Public Security Mykolas Romeris University in Lithuania.