Abstract

AREVALO HERRERA, Luisa Carolina. Police education and human rights. Diálogos sobre educ. Temas actuales en investig. educ. [online]. 2018, vol.9, n.17. ISSN 2007-2171.

For several years we have observed in Central America a trend to create specialized police education institutions instead of the old police training academies in order to provide higher education to police forces. The curricula of any police training institution for a democratic society, especially within the framework of higher education, must identify the competencies in terms of performance that will be the goals of such an education, as well as analyze the ideological elements that contribute to the production of images and meanings that introduce in the classroom stereotypes and prejudice that lead to discriminatory practices and the violation of the rights and dignity of the people. All of this rests on the most valuable element of any educational system: the people who will be directly involved in the educational process and who promote the guidelines for the training of good police forces in the service of the community.

Keywords : Police; education; curriculum; democracy; human rights.