1011CCJ Criminology Skills: Police Tertiary Qualifications Essay

This assignment presents an essay outline exploring the necessity of tertiary qualifications for police officers. It argues that police officers do need tertiary qualifications, providing three main reasons: improved overall health of the police department, better conflict resolution skills without force, and contribution to the development of professionalism globally. Evidence from various articles supports these grounds, highlighting the role of education in instilling values, reducing corruption, minimizing the use of force, and enhancing critical thinking. The outline also acknowledges the alternative viewpoint that tertiary qualification requirements might decrease minority representation but ultimately argues that the overall benefits outweigh this concern. The conclusion summarizes the advantages of mandatory tertiary education for police officers, emphasizing the reduction of corruption and the use of deadly force.

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

they obtained from this education has improved their critical thinking, communication skills,
administration, patrol and investigation. In this way tertiary education is allowing them to be more
effective and stand out as much efficient candidates than the others for upcoming promotions and
opportunities.
d) In what way is this point relevant to your main essay argument?
Tertiary qualification provides the police officers with a framework in order to build skills which
help them to surpass their less educated counterparts.
Rebuttal
Concession: Is there an alternative viewpoint you need to talk acknowledge?
a) What is that alternative view?
Tertiary qualification will likely decrease the minority representation
b) What is the evidence for it? (i.e. what study and what does it show?)
Jackson and Cameron (2014) have stated that if the degree of tertiary qualification is made essential
for the entry level process into the police force, it will decrease the existence of Hispanic and Black
officers, whose rate of education is comparatively lower than those of the Whites of United States.
Refutation: How do you respond to that alternative view?
a) Can you refute it (argue against it)?
No
b) What evidence/reasoning do you have to argue against it?
OR
c) does this affect your main argument? (e.g. do you need to qualify your point of view), if so what
is your argument now?
We cannot take risk with the overall system by increasing corruption just because of this reason
that some people would not get a job if they are asked to have tertiary education. The Black and
Hispanic could take increase their rate of education by various means.
Conclusion

Summarise your grounds here:
A number of advantages have been seen of tertiary education to make mandatory for the
police officers. Making it necessary would reduce the occurrence of institutional corruption
and the ill use of powers by the authority figures. It will also enable the police officers in
sorting out suspect interactions or callouts with lower level of deadly forces that can save
lives.
Restate your main argument here:
Police officers DO need tertiary qualifications
References
Jackson, S., & Cameron, C. (2014). Improving access to further and higher education for
young people in public care: European policy and practice. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Roberts, K., Herrington, V., Jones, W., White, J., & Day, D. (2016). Police Leadership in
2045: The Value of Education in Developing Leadership. Policing, pav045.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/police/pav045
Tatarko, A., & Mironova, A. (2016). Values and Attitudes Towards Corruption: Cross-
Cultural Study in Four European Countries. SSRN Electronic Journal.
http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2791414
Telep, C. (2017). The Impact of Higher Education on Police Officer Attitudes toward Abuse
of Authority. Journal Of Criminal Justice Education, 22(3), 392-419.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10511253.2010.519893
Terrill, W., & Mastrofski, S. (2010). Situational and officer-based determinants of police
coercion. Justice Quarterly, 19(2), 215-248. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07418820200095221