Lt-Col PaedDr. Dagmar KROŠLÁKOVÁ

2. Lt-Col PaedDr. Dagmar KROŠLÁKOVÁ 2011

3. Training Centre for Prison Staff in the Slovak Republic

5. 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

6. 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

7. STAFF OF TRAINING CENTRE • 1 DIRECTOR • 1 DEPUTY DIRECTOR • 8 TRAINERS/LECTURERS • 1 ADMINISTRATIVE WORKER

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

9. Basic (military) training • It has been realised since 2005. • 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).

13. Professional training of the prison staff (Initial training) It is determined to obtain thequalification 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

14. 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

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

16. 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

17. 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)

18. 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

19. 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

20. Classrooms

21. Additional facilities

23. Lessons

25. Self-defence training

26. Practical training in shooting

27. Accommodation facilities

28. FURTHER TRAINING

29. 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.

30. 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

31. 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)

33. 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

34. 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

35. 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

36. 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

37. 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

38. 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

39. PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF CIVIL PRISON EMPLOYEES

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

42. Overview of trained prison staff in the last years

44. Thank you for your attention