School for Police Leadership of the Police Academy of The Netherlands (SPL)
The SPL is one of the Schools within the Police Academy of The Netherlands. The SPL contributes towards ‘life-long mental and intellectual fitness’ of all police leaders of Dutch police services. It does so by:
- promoting the professional and personal development of this target group by means of exchanges on, and deepening understanding of, relevant social, managerial and police developments;
- offering tailored individual and collective training programmes, at the request of the National Management Development Bureau Police;
- providing Operational (OLL), Tactical (TLL), Strategic (SLL) Leadership Courses (two year -master’s- programmes forming part of post-initial police training in the Netherlands);
- searching for high class training programmes at renowned national and international (police) institutes and mediating participation for potential candidates within the SPL target group;
organising international learning activities, among which ‘Pearls in Policing, an annual gathering of top level police executives worldwide and its connecting programme, the International Pearl Fishers Action Learning Group (IALG).
SSR Training Course on Police Reform in an SSR Context
At the request of the Netherlands, ISSAT is asked to support a group of four police academies to develop a 2-week training course, targeting mainly (senior) law enforcement officials. The aim of the course is to train these officers on the issues around police reform within an SSR and post-conflict contexts, and to prepare them to act as police reform advisors within multilateral mission or bilateral support programmes.
The programme was a joint endeavour chaired by the Netherlands in conjunction with Norway,Canada and the UK. ISSAT provided advisory support as well as its current SSR training materials and helped develop some modules on looking at police reform through an SSR lens.
Support to Dutch Police Officer Training on SSR and Police Reform in Post-Conflict Contexts.
The purpose of the course was to prepare senior police officers (from the Netherlands) to meet the challenges faced in policing abroad. ISSAT was asked to provide part of the training course, covering SSR and police reform in post-conflict countries. The participants consisted of 18 senior police commanders, including chief of district level. The course consisted of five components in total, and ISSAT covered one of the components. The course included the following topics: the effects of globalisation, EU policing, SSR and rule of law projects, intercultural communication and how to operate as a staff member in a police reform mission.
Support to Dutch Police Officer Training on SSR and Police Reform in Post-Conflict Contexts
The purpose of the course was to prepare senior police officers (from the Netherlands) to meet the challenges faced in policing abroad. ISSAT was asked to provide part of the training course, covering SSR and police reform in post-conflict countries. The participants consisted of 18 senior police commanders, including chief of district level.
Support to Senior Police Officer Training on Police Reform in an SSR Context
At the request of the Netherlands, ISSAT was asked to support a group of four police academies to develop a 2-week training course, targeting mainly (senior) law enforcement officials. The aim of the course was to train these officers on the issues around police reform within an SSR and post-conflict context, and to prepare them to act as police reform advisors within multilateral mission or bilateral support programmes.
The course aimed to prepare law enforcement officials from donor countries to serve in missions abroad as police reform/SSR advisors. The course responded to a need that had been identified by each of the partners, to have police officers with a solid background in SSR issues and working in post-conflict contexts.
There is significant ownership by the four policing organisations, who will take over the roll-out of the course in the long-term. The modules developed will also assist ISSAT in the inclusion of more police reform modules/examples into its Level 2 training course
The programme was a joint endeavour chaired by the Netherlands in conjunction with Norway,Canada and the UK. ISSAT provided advisory support as well as its current SSR training materials and helped develop some modules on looking at police reform through an SSR lens. The first course was piloted in September 2011, at Bramshill, UK.
Hans Nieuwstraten
School for Police Leadership of the Police Academy of The Netherlands NetherlandsCommisioner of the The Hague Police Service.
Hans Hogeboom
School for Police Leadership of the Police Academy of The Netherlands NetherlandsI started my policecareer in 1976 at the operational level. After 12 years I went to a special Investigative unit, where also my management career started. After 11 years I returned to a Regional Police Force and first became a Deputy Head of a Criminal Investigations Department. After 5 years I became Head of a Criminal Investigations Department in another Police Region. Right now I'm a participant of an International Police Management Development Programm and I'm seconded to the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) in Germany where I will stay at the end of this year.