POLICE: PROFESSION OR SYNONYM
POLICE: PROFESSION OR SYNONYM

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes the status of the profession "policeman" from the aspect of the police educational models in certain countries, who have historical experience and application of the model of police education. The paper endeavors to answer the question "is there a police profession?" It starts with the notion that the term profession describes someone's work, vocation or occupation for whose performance a specific vocational education, qualification and training are needed.Individuals who perform such things are called professionals. Occupation is a set of activities and work assignments (workplaces) that, according to their form and content, are organizational and technologicalso related and interconnected so they can be performed by one executive who possesses appropriate knowledge, abilities and skills. The state statistics under occupation understands a job (job position) that is performed by a person for the purpose of acquiring means of life. In this definition, the following elements are emphasized: a) existence and acting according to ethical standards, b) possessing special knowledge and skills, c) scientifically grounded, e) acting in a social favor. The most commonly cited characteristics of the term profession/occupation by Greenwood, are those which refer to a) systemically completed theory, b) professional authority, c) protection of the status (institutional insurance), d) ethical code, and e) specific subculture.

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