Lt-Col PaedDr. Dagmar
KROŠLÁKOVÁ
2011
Training Centre
for Prison Staff
in the Slovak Republic
Legislation modifying
prison staff training
Law No 73/1998 on state service of the
officers Police Force, Slovak Information
Service, CPCG and Railway Police
 Conception of Education for prison officers
and prison employees
 Director General Decree No 25/2010
concerning training of prison officers and
prison employees

Training objectives
– to ensure educational and
professional preparation of the
prison staff
qualification
professional knowledge
training
formation of professional
attitudes, skills, habits of new
recruited prison staff
STAFF OF TRAINING CENTRE
1
DIRECTOR
 1 DEPUTY DIRECTOR
 8 TRAINERS/LECTURERS
 1 ADMINISTRATIVE WORKER
Educational activities ensured
by the Training Centre of CPCG
•Basic
military training
•Professional training of the prison
officers
•Specialised training of the prison
officers
•Professional training of the civil
prison employees
Basic (military) training
It has been realised since 2005.
 It is determined for all new prison officers
who did not pass basic military service.
 The purpose is to obtain basic knowledge
and skills of military command, manners,
service discipline, use of weapons,
improvement of physical efficiency.
 Duration – as a rule 4 weeks (at the
present time 3 weeks).

Professional training
of the prison staff (Initial training)


It is determined to obtain the
qualification requirement of
police education in accordance
with the Law No 73/1998 on
Civil Service.
It is divided into:
Basic professional training
Specialised professional
training
Basic professional training
 It
is determined for all new
recruited prison staff who passed
basic military training or military
service.
 Duration
– 8 weeks including
final exams
Basic professional training
 Subjects
– Basics of Law and Organisation of Prison
Service
– Penology
– Security Preparation
 Teaching
process
– 1 week – 35 lessons
BASICS OF LAW AND ORGANISATION
OF PRISON SERVICE
– Constitutional Law
– Criminal Code
– Human rights
– International standards and norms on
treatment of prisoners
– Organisation of National Prison Service
– Law concerning State Service
– Ethics for Prison Officers
PENOLOGY
– History of penology
– Pre-trial detention (rights, duties,
treatment, discipline of untried prisoners, etc.)
– Serving the sentence of imprisonment
(rights, duties, discipline, treatment,
differentiation, employment, education, leisure
time activities of sentenced prisoners, etc.)
– Drug awareness
– Training in communication skills
– Mental health (treatment of prison staff
supervised inmates)
SECURITY PREPARATION
Guarding and transportation of prisoners
 Weapons
 Practical shooting preparation
 Use of radio and telephone
 Practical training in self-defence
 Use of force, using restraining devices
 Searching techniques
 Fire Safety
 Hostage Survival
 First Aid and Health Promotion

Specialised professional training

is determined for new recruited prison
officers with commissioned officer´s rank
or the prison officers with warrant officer´s
rank prepared for the function with
commissioned officer´s

Duration – 2 weeks including final exams

Subjects
– Professional Preparation
– Penology
Classrooms
Additional facilities
Lessons
Self-defence training
Practical training in shooting
Accommodation facilities
FURTHER TRAINING
Further training
 This
training is devoted to deepen
the qualification through systematic
professional training of prison staff.
 Its purpose is continuous refreshing,
developing and renewing knowledge,
skills, abilities and habits necessary
to serve civil duties in prisons.
Further training activities include:
Social psychological training
 Professional course for judicial guards
 Professional course for regime officers
 Professional course for shift commanders
 Professional course for dog handlers
 Professional course for preventive security
service officers
 Professional course for shooting and
professional preparation instructors

Social psychological training
provides the possibility to deepen
theoreticaL knowledge and practical skills
of pedagogical and psychological influence
– treatment with untried and sentenced
prisoners, for the prison officers appointed
or prepared for the function pedagogue,
social worker and psychologist, or other
prison officers who are in a direct contact
with prisoners
 extent – 200 hours (4 weeks)

Professional course
for judicial guards
 provides
the possibility to deepen
and perfect knowledge from the field
of protection of court and
prosecution facilities and public
order near those facilities, to obtain
communication skills
 extent
– 2 weeks
Professional course
for regime officers
 provides
the prison officers especially
regime officers with the possibility to
deepen theoretical and practical skills
of penitentiary treatment
 extent
– 1 week
Professional course
for shift commanders
 provides
the prison officers with the
possibility to deepen theoretical and
practical knowldge of management
guard and transport activity,
emergency management
 extent
– 2 weeks
Professional course
for dog handlers
provides the prison officers as a rule
appointed to a function in service cynology
section, basic knowledge of service dog
training methodology, breeding and
veterinary treatment, specific skills at
practical training of service dogs
 extent – 9 weeks

Professional course for preventive
security service officers
 provides
the prison officers
appointed to a function in PSS
section or prison officers prepared
for this function, special professional
preparation in criminal proceeding,
criminology, searching and
preventive acitivity
 extent -6 weeks
Professional course for shooting
and professional preparation
instructors
 This
course is for the instructors from
General Directorate, prison
institutions and Training Centre who
ensure shooting and professional
preparation of other prison staff
 extent
 Police
– 1 week
Academy
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
OF CIVIL PRISON
EMPLOYEES
 for
all civil prison employees with the
aim to obtain basic knowledge
concerning legal, organisational and
security information
 extent – 1 week
Overview of trained prison staff
in the last years
1200
1000
800
600
400
200
0
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Training activity
Number of trainees
2010
Basic (military) training
224
Basic professional training
288
Specialised professional training
260
Social psychological training
26
Professional course for justice guard
35
Professional course for dog handlers
12
Professional course for shift commanders
47
Professional course for regime officers
52
Professional training for prison civil
employees
57
TOGETHER
1001