Lt-Col PaedDr. Dagmar KROŠLÁKOVÁ 2011

Training Centre for Prison Staff in the Slovak Republic

Legislation modifying prison staff training  Law No 73/1998 on state service of the officers Police Force, Slovak Information Service, CPCG and Railway Police  Conception of Education for prison officers and prison employees  Director General Decree No 25/2010 concerning training of prison officers and prison employees

Training objectives –to ensure educational and professional preparation of the prison staff  qualification  professional knowledge  training  formation of professional attitudes, skills, habits of new recruited prison staff

STAFF OF TRAINING CENTRE  1 DIRECTOR  1 DEPUTY DIRECTOR  8 TRAINERS/LECTURERS  1 ADMINISTRATIVE WORKER

Educational activities ensured by the Training Centre of CPCG Basic military training Basic military training Professional training of the prison officers Professional training of the prison officers Specialised training of the prison officers Specialised training of the prison officers Professional training of the civil prison employees Professional training of the civil prison employees

Basic (military) training  It has been realised since  It is determined for all new prison officers who did not pass basic military service.  The purpose is to obtain basic knowledge and skills of military command, manners, service discipline, use of weapons, improvement of physical efficiency.  Duration – as a rule 4 weeks (at the present time 3 weeks).

Professional training of the prison staff (Initial training) It is determined to obtain the qualification requirement of police education in accordance with the Law No 73/1998 on Civil Service. It is divided into:  Basic professional training  Specialised professional training

Basic professional training  It is determined for all new recruited prison staff who passed basic military training or military service.  Duration – 8 weeks including final exams

Basic professional training  Subjects –Basics of Law and Organisation of Prison Service –Penology –Security Preparation  Teaching process –1 week – 35 lessons

BASICS OF LAW AND ORGANISATION OF PRISON SERVICE –Constitutional Law –Criminal Code –Human rights –International standards and norms on treatment of prisoners –Organisation of National Prison Service –Law concerning State Service –Ethics for Prison Officers

PENOLOGY –History of penology –Pre-trial detention (rights, duties, treatment, discipline of untried prisoners, etc.) –Serving the sentence of imprisonment (rights, duties, discipline, treatment, differentiation, employment, education, leisure time activities of sentenced prisoners, etc.) –Drug awareness –Training in communication skills –Mental health (treatment of prison staff supervised inmates)

SECURITY PREPARATION  Guarding and transportation of prisoners  Weapons  Practical shooting preparation  Use of radio and telephone  Practical training in self-defence  Use of force, using restraining devices  Searching techniques  Fire Safety  Hostage Survival  First Aid and Health Promotion

Specialised professional training  is determined for new recruited prison officers with commissioned officer´s rank or the prison officers with warrant officer´s rank prepared for the function with commissioned officer´s  Duration – 2 weeks including final exams  Subjects –Professional Preparation –Penology

Classrooms

Additional facilities

Lessons

Self-defence training

Practical training in shooting

Accommodation facilities

FURTHER TRAINING FURTHER TRAINING

Further training  This training is devoted to deepen the qualification through systematic professional training of prison staff.  Its purpose is continuous refreshing, developing and renewing knowledge, skills, abilities and habits necessary to serve civil duties in prisons.

Further training activities include:  Social psychological training  Professional course for judicial guards  Professional course for regime officers  Professional course for shift commanders  Professional course for dog handlers  Professional course for preventive security service officers  Professional course for shooting and professional preparation instructors

Social psychological training  provides the possibility to deepen theoreticaL knowledge and practical skills of pedagogical and psychological influence – treatment with untried and sentenced prisoners, for the prison officers appointed or prepared for the function pedagogue, social worker and psychologist, or other prison officers who are in a direct contact with prisoners  extent – 200 hours (4 weeks)

Professional course for judicial guards  provides the possibility to deepen and perfect knowledge from the field of protection of court and prosecution facilities and public order near those facilities, to obtain communication skills  extent – 2 weeks

Professional course for regime officers  provides the prison officers especially regime officers with the possibility to deepen theoretical and practical skills of penitentiary treatment  extent – 1 week

Professional course for shift commanders  provides the prison officers with the possibility to deepen theoretical and practical knowldge of management guard and transport activity, emergency management  extent – 2 weeks

Professional course for dog handlers  provides the prison officers as a rule appointed to a function in service cynology section, basic knowledge of service dog training methodology, breeding and veterinary treatment, specific skills at practical training of service dogs  extent – 9 weeks

Professional course for preventive security service officers  provides the prison officers appointed to a function in PSS section or prison officers prepared for this function, special professional preparation in criminal proceeding, criminology, searching and preventive acitivity  extent -6 weeks

Professional course for shooting and professional preparation instructors  This course is for the instructors from General Directorate, prison institutions and Training Centre who ensure shooting and professional preparation of other prison staff  extent – 1 week  Police Academy

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF CIVIL PRISON EMPLOYEES

 for all civil prison employees with the aim to obtain basic knowledge concerning legal, organisational and security information  extent – 1 week

Overview of trained prison staff in the last years

Training activityNumber of trainees 2010 Basic (military) training 224 Basic professional training 288 Specialised professional training 260 Social psychological training 26 Professional course for justice guard 35 Professional course for dog handlers 12 Professional course for shift commanders 47 Professional course for regime officers 52 Professional training for prison civil employees 57 TOGETHER1001