STRUCTURING OF POLICE SCIENCES IN THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
STRUCTURING OF POLICE SCIENCES IN THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

Summary/Abstract: The paper will present the process of police science structuring in the Republic of Serbia. This will be done through the presentation of key elements of discussion about the establishing of the police sciences, their position in the scientific nomenclature, the review of the process of their creation, the view of their structure, the institutional framework, the carriers, the models, the tendencies and possible directions of developing in the Republic of Serbia, all in the context of still ongoing discussion about the police science in the EU countries. Taking into consideration the arguments that the police sciences havetheir own field and subsequently different areas of study, and that there are scientific disciplines differentiated within them which study individual and interconnected aspects of organization and policing, we agree that the corpus of police sciences includes those we can call systematic, those we can call specific and applied as well. It should also bear in mind that the police institutions (systems), policing, police personnel, the effects of policing and research methodology of police phenomena, as in the case of other phenomena and sciences, can be the subject of study of many other not only police sciences. According to this, the significant contribution to establishing and development of the police sciences is given by the scientific, i.e. scientific and educational institutions,which are not established in the Republic of Serbia solely because of the clearly expressed necessity for higher education for the police requirements. The interdisciplinary approach to the phenomena which are singled out as the subject of study of the police sciences gives the significant contribution in achieving such status of the police sciences which, with the consent on its equality with other sciences, would enable fulfilling of increasingly demanding criteria of quality dictated by the interests of the community and therefore the police.

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