Police Officers Need Tertiary Qualifications: An Argumentative Essay

Introducing your Essay
Write your chosen essay question here:
All police should be required to have tertiary qualifications. Why/ why not?
From the articles you have found, what have you decided to argue in your essay? (tick ONLY
ONE)
Police officers DO need tertiary qualifications 
Police officers DONOT need tertiary qualifications
List here your main reasons (your grounds) for arguing this:
1. Tertiary qualifications improves the overall health of the police department
2. It resolves conflicts without any force
3. contributes to the development of the professionalism of police forces globally
Essay body
Grounds/reason 1: (this should be the same as grounds 1 listed above)
Tertiary qualifications improves the overall health of the police department
What is your evidence for this? (complete the following)
a) Which of your articles supports this? [list the author surname (date)]
Alexander Tatarko and Anna Mironova (2016)
b) What does that article show/find?
Notwithstanding of the country it came down to, it was a man’s own values that were the most
crucial factors on determining abusive and corrupt behaviours
c) How does that finding support your grounds (what is the logical reasoning)?
Undertaking of the tertiary qualifications has the capacity to instil values that is possibly to
minimize the untoward behaviour. It is also supported by the study of Telep (2017) on national
survey, that the police officers those who receive tertiary qualification have mindsets which are less
supporting corruption.
d) In what way is this point relevant to your main essay argument?
Tertiary qualifications lead to improve the institutional resistance to corruption

Grounds/reason 2: (this should be the same as grounds 1 listed above)
It resolves conflicts without any force
What is your evidence for this? (complete the following)
a) Which of your articles supports this? [list the author surname (date)]
William Terrill and Stephen D. Mastrofski (2010)
b) What does that article show/find?
Tertiary qualification reduces the possibility of the use of force taking place by notable margin.
c) How does that finding support your grounds (what is the logical reasoning)?
The police officers with any type of additional education along with the high school education
makes use of less verbal forces and the officers with complete tertiary qualifications use notably
less physical force than the less educated ones.
d) In what way is this point relevant to your main essay argument?
Tertiary qualification is a toll that enables the officers in finding out opportunities to resolve
conflicts without employing physical, verbal or deadly forces.
Grounds/reason 3: (this should be the same as grounds 1 listed above)
It contributes to the development of the professionalism of police forces globally
What is your evidence for this? (complete the following)
a) Which of your articles supports this? [list the author surname (date)]
Karl Roberts, Victoria Herrington, Warwick Jones, Jon White and David Day (2016)
b) What does that article show/find?
Education gives the police officers proper critical and creative thinking skills which are necessary
for solving out complex problems facing by the police department.
c) How does that finding support your grounds (what is the logical reasoning)?
The officers who has undertaken full tertiary education in the field of criminal justice has stated in
the recent study conducted on the police departments in Alabama have stated that the degree that