The Associate Degree of Social Science (Police Studies) course is designed to provide students with basic knowledge and background appropriate to a police force. To graduate, students will be required to complete or have completed, the requirement of a police training course. Admission to a particular police force will depend upon that organisation’s specific requirements.

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Available only to serving police officers or students who will be joining the police service prior to completion of the course.

The Associate Degree of Social Science (Police Studies) comprises twelve units of study and a Police Practicum component. The twelve academic units are apportioned as follows: six Major units, three Minor units, and three Electives.

It is possible for part-time students to complete the academic units in the external mode. These students will still have to complete the Practicum through the Police Academy. It is also possible to study some units externally and some internally.

It is important to note that students who do not gain admission to the police academy will have to change their major from police studies to justice studies prior to the completion of the equivalent of their third semester of full-time study.

Students are advised to contact the course coordinator in the School of Law and Justice prior to enrolling in the required units.