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Overview

The aim of the Graduate Diploma in Leadership and Management (Policing and Security) is to build on the student’s ability to demonstrate autonomy and expert judgement in relation to the leadership and management of policing and security organisations. Students will research, apply and reflect on the history and context of decision making and operational command.  Students will also identify key challenges to leadership and operational command, and suggest practical solutions to the competing risks and priorities in current administrative and operational environments. The role of communication in facilitating solutions to policing and security challenges, and enhancing organisational and operational effectiveness is also addressed. 

An AGSPS course is designed as a “meeting place” between the professional world of its students and the academic world of theory and research.  Successfully completing an AGSPS course should enhance a student’s ability to perform in both worlds. AGSPS courses aim to prepare graduates to contribute to theory and research as well as to professional practice.

Admission and Credit

Admission

Entry Requirement

Language requirements

Standard

Structure

Essential set 64 Credit Points

Enrolment Pattern

Study plan

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of this course, graduates will be able to:
1.
Demonstrate an advanced understanding of intelligence and analytical concepts and underpinnings relevant to the challenges facing operational police and security management
2.
Demonstrate a critical understanding of the key ethical and professional issues associated with management and leadership in policing, and the ways these should inform and shape practice at a personal, professional and organisational level
3.
Identify challenges to policing and security, and how solutions to these may be facilitated by strategic use of communication strategies and plans
4.
Critically evaluate how communication strategies may be able to enhance transparency, organisational cohesiveness, community consultation and operational effectiveness
5.
Review, analyse, consolidate, and synthesise research relating to communication theory and critically reflect on how this can assist in the management of operational issues in a policing and security context
6.
Transfer and communicate complex knowledge and ideas to a variety of audiences including police, security personnel and other stakeholders

Alternative exit options

The Master, Graduate Diploma and Graduate Certificate make up an articulated set of courses and credit is given in each higher level course for the subjects completed in the lower.