Natsakon Adjanasuppat. Relevance of the Royal Thai Police Cadet Academy curriculum to current crime prevention activities : a case study of the plice cadets, class 52 . Master's Degree(Criminology and Criminal Justice). Mahidol University. : Mahidol University, 2003.
Relevance of the Royal Thai Police Cadet Academy curriculum to current crime prevention activities : a case study of the plice cadets, class 52
Abstract:
This thesis questioned graduates studying the Royal Thai Police Cadet
curriculum, BE 2538, in order to study the relevance to each course being currently
taught for crime prevention. 190 graduates from Batch 52 were sampled, each with
5 years experience, and a questionnaire was used for data collection.
From the separated analyses of the sample groups into 3 key operational job
lines of the Royal Thai Police Office, i.e. investigation, suppression and office job,
it was concluded that most worked in an investigation or suppression job in the
provincial police stations, and were then disseminated into other units.
It was commented and observed that the curriculum was congested with
irrelevant subjects to the profession, resulting in an impediment to comprehensive
studying of investigation and suppression. In particular, the inadequacy of the
existing fieldwork training affected competencies during operations. However, the
eligibling to leadership of a force, knowledge, thinking, conduct, discipline and
analyticity of systematically solving problems were of a moderate to high level.
Morality, honesty, integrity of duty, trustfulness and being accepted by people were
satisfactorily high.
Reviews should therefore be focused on the similarity of the curriculum to
the curriculum of BE 2530, which contains different non credited fieldwork. such
as daily duty of supervisory systems and guarding, which is a burden to cadets
because it is added to the contents or subjects, and is unlikely to be fulfilled in the
course of duty. It is recommended that relevant changes should be made to the
courses. There should be a substantial revision to courses concentrating on
implementation of the police profession, which are directly and precisely relevant
to cadets rather than the theoretical approaches of many courses inapplicable to
police jobs.