Police leaders are expected to provide vision, shape national perspective into European, communicate effectively towards internal and external forces. Senior officers must be both hard-headed business managers and professional politicians, while inspiring and motivating ranks, who themselves are facing enormous upheaval. Above all, leadership is more accountable and under more scrutiny than ever before. Strengthening police leadership was the subject of a working group during the 2013 European Police Chiefs’ Convention. Having in mind the current situation and according to the initiative of European Police Chiefs', project partners decided to contribute to the creation of clear, strong and innovative training system for police commissioners in Europe. The aim of the project ,,Police Commissioners: Leadership Aspires Wisdom (PC LAW)” – relevant and high-quality improvement of police commissioners’ professional strategic, leadership and management skills. Objectives: 1) to create the assessment methodology of police commissioners’ competencies “Assessment Centre”; 2) to organise pilot identifying of the needs for improving police commissioners’ professional skills; 3) to develop the modules of training programme and the methodical material; 4) to carry out pilot trainings for police commissioners. Results: 1) created the assessment methodology of police commissioners’ competencies “Assessment Centre”; 2) identifying the needs for improving police commissioners’ competencies; 3) designed the 15 modules of training programme and methodical material; 4) organised pilot training for police commissioners. Target group of the project is police commissioners, who are heads of Lithuanian, Latvian and Belgian police institutions and departments and fall under the needs to identify and improve existing or acquire new professional skills and knowledge for everyday work. This project should impact on skills and knowledge of approximately 500 police commissioners in project partners’ countries. The created methodology ,,Assessment Centre” will be applied for 90 police commissioners and 45 of them will be trained directly during the project. The methodology and training programme with methodical material will be used by the Lithuanian, Latvian and Belgian police training institutions for identifying training needs of police commissioners and their training. The methodology and the training programme developed during this project could lay the ground for creating common requirements for competencies and skills of EU police commissioners as well as could be adopted by other EU countries for police commissioners training.
Police leaders are expected to provide vision, shape national perspective into European, communicate effectively towards internal and external forces. Senior officers must be both hard-headed business managers and professional politicians, while inspiring and motivating ranks, who themselves are facing enormous upheaval. Above all, leadership is more accountable and under more scrutiny than ever before. Having in mind the current situation project partners decided to contribute to the creation of clear, strong and innovative training system for senior police officers. The aim of the project – to create the system of relevant and high-quality improvement of senior police officers’ professional strategic, leadership and management skills. Project objectives: 1) to create the assessment methodology of senior police officers’ competencies; 2) to organise pilot identifying of the needs for improving senior police officers’ professional skills; 3) to develop the modules of training programme and the methodical material; 4) to carry out pilot trainings for senior police offers. The target group of the project were senior police officers, who are heads of police institutions and departments and fall under the needs to identify and improve existing or acquire new professional skills and knowledge for everyday work. Project partners: 1. Police Department under the MoI of the Republic of Lithuania. The central authority of the Lithuanian Police, which forms and develops the strategy for the police, organises the management of the territorial units, as well as implements the human resources policy and training within the police system. 2. Ltd Human Study Centre. Consulting company, applying management and psychology solutions for business and individuals, personnel development (seminars, couching), assessment, outplacement, organisational research. 3. Lithuanian police school. Specialized institution of the Lithuanian Police, which provides the vocational training for cadets and further training for police officers. 4. The State Police of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Latvia. It implements the state policy in the field of crime combating and the protection of public order and safety. 5. The Federal Police Belgium. Part of it the National Police Academy and General Directorate of Resources Management and Information are responsible for the basic training of police officers namely superintendents and chief superintendents and their continuous training. Project results: 1) created the assessment methodology of senior police officer’ competencies “Assessment Centre” 2) identified the needs for improving senior police officers’ competencies 3) designed the training programme and methodical material 4) organised the pilot training for police commissioners. The intellectual outputs will be used by the project partners for future police leaders selection and for senior police officers training.