Today, the social environment is rapidly changing. Our society is being opened, globalized, decentralized and democratized on a full scale, requiring us to be more competitive and adaptive. In short, we live in an age of knowledge and information. The...
Today, the social environment is rapidly changing. Our society is being opened, globalized, decentralized and democratized on a full scale, requiring us to be more competitive and adaptive. In short, we live in an age of knowledge and information. The marine police environment on the sea is drastically changing. As nation's economy grows more and more, emerge such problems related to the marine police as increasing illegal immigrations and smuggles, difficulty of executing Korea-Japan and Korea-China Fisheries Treaties, difficulty of safeguarding the wide sea according to UN Law of Sea Convention, complicated marine police conditions due to dispatch of the Korean army to Iraq. Moreover, as the social reforms and democratization proceed, people's demand for police services increase in both terms of quality and quantity. In order to meet people's needs for police service as well as respond to the changing police environment, the current police education and training system should be reformed to reflect the spirit of the time and make the police more competitive. With such basic conceptions in mind, this study was aimed at reviewing the education and training system for the marine police in order to help the marine police enhance their quality and thereby, help them respond appropriately to the rapidly changing police environment. To this end, the first chapter introduces the purpose and methods of the study, and the second chapter reviews the changing social conditions, the paradigm of police education, and advanced nations' police educationtraining systems, and then, suggests the basic directions for police educationtraining. The third chapter discusses the conditions and problems of the current marine police educationtraining in terms of contents, manpower and environment. The fourth chapter addresses the problems involving educationtraining of the marine police and thereby, suggest their solutions as follows; first, it is essential to establish a reasonable educationtraining system in terms of timing, procedures and stages; second, it is necessary to establish an independent educationtraining institute so that the characteristics of the marine police may be reflected in the operation of the educationtraining system; third, it is required to depart from the uniform and stereotyped educationtraining programs and instead, reflect people's expectations, while enhancing the programs to help the marine police solve the problems; fourth, education techniques should be diversified into e-Learning, discussion- and experience-based ones, while adequate education facilities should be secured to apply such diverse techniques; fifth, it is necessary to foster able lecturers who are armed with professionalism, new knowledge and expertise required for the marine police. Currently, our marine police is pressured by the people to reestablish their roles amid changing police environment and wave of democracy. At the same time, they are requested to reform themselves to be more competitive in the age of globalization. Marine police should lead an advanced marine culture as prime marine police administrators and human right protectors in the 21st century, and in this context, they are requested to develop their quality more. Police officers' quality will be improved when able human resources are recruited to be effectively educated and trained with the material supports and favorable working environment provided. What is most important, however, may be an efficient educationtraining system. It is hoped that more attention will be paid to educationtraining of our marine police with more researches into it in order to change, reform and enhance their organization.