ADPP - some questions (1 Viewer)

[AJD]

Hey I'm thinking of applying for the ADPP at the Goulburn pollice college. I've heard that it takes up to 18 months to get accepted into the course after you have applied. Is this true?

Also I was wondering what the accomodation is like at csu Goulburn.

Also to move beyond doing just general duties as a police officer (ie moving into specialist fields) do you need to do further studies (like criminology/justice studies at uws) or is it fine just to have the ADPP?

And finally, if anyone who has done/ is doing the course has any advice or other info etc that would be cool.

Thanks

 

[katie tully]

Ok.

Here goes! I won't bother posting it all here, but these are the links you need.

Associate Degree in Policing Practice
http://www.csu.edu.au/courses/undergraduate/policing_practice_adpp/index.html
- This is the entry course into the NSW police

There are four pathways for entry into the Associate Degree:

Full-time on campus – Sessions 1 and 2 will be studied on campus at NSW Police College, Goulburn
Mixed mode – combines two sessions of home-based study (Session 1a and 1b), then distance education students join full-time on campus students for Session 2 at the NSW Police College, Goulburn
The Bachelor of Justice Studies (Policing) – full-time study at CSU Bathurst for two years, including residential schools at the NSW Police College, then students join full-time on campus students for Session 2 at the NSW Police College, Goulburn
RCC (Recognition of Current Competency) i.e. prior policing experience – direct entry into Session 2


To further your career once you start as a probationary constable, you'd then do;
Bachelor of Policing (Investigations)
http://www.csu.edu.au/courses/undergraduate/policing_investigations/index.html

or

Bachelor of Policing
http://www.csu.edu.au/courses/undergraduate/policing/index.html

I know two cops, one who only recently (last year) graduated as a prob. constable. He did something at Bathurst for a year or so, and then spent like, 6 months at Goulburn or whatever. And then he had to complete the rest of it via distance ed.

Another guy I know has been working as a cop for a few years, and he is doing a Bachelor of Policing by distance ed (we did crime scene together), but I'm not entirely sure of his rank (he's higher than a constable)

 

[katie tully]

Sorry, I found it.
My friend did the Bachelor of Justice Studies at CSU Bathurst, and then finished the remainder at Goulburn

http://www.csu.edu.au/courses/undergraduate/justice_policing/index.html

 

[katie tully]

Also, you do know that to graduate you must be 19 or over and hold atleast a P2 drivers licence

 

[P_Sabbo]

It takes some people many months to be accepted into the course, often because of medical/academic/driving record issues.

Others get accepted in a matter of weeks.

Personally, it took me about 2-3 months from the time of my first phone call to recruitment, until I started the course. You have to do a physical test, a psych test, a medical, and a LOT of paperwork in that time.

It also depends on how many students they're accepting in any given session. That often depends on when the next election is, because they like to employ a lot of cops in an election year - it shows that they're "tough on crime".