JSB284 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Psychological Testing, Pepper Spray, Queensland Police Service
Document Summary
This week"s guest lecturer is inspector jason saunders manager of professional development unit, 30 years police experience, 18 years as a detective. Also holds accounting degree and master of business administration. Other roles have included: commissioner"s staff, chogm planning, ceps fellow. The qps provides core policing service to queensland 24 hours a day: serves approximately 4. 4 million queensland residents, serves approximately 18 million tourists a year, serves across a land mass of 1. 7 million square kilometres. The qps currently employs around 15 000 staff 11 000 of which are sworn in. Qps has an annual budget of almost 2 billion. There has been a recent renewal process a restructure. This has seen queensland go from around eight regions of policing to five. Involves a 25 week long pre-service training program. There are three phases of training plus a skills phase. There are 96 recruits (four squads) each six weeks. Age range from 18 50 years old.
