The importance and the value of authority and responsibility in the law enforcement agencies

Abstract

According to The Copenhagen Declaration, the strategies for training and mobility are essential for promoting the capacity of employment, social integration and personal development and one of the priorities of this declaration is intensifying the support for developing the competences and sectorial qualifications. Dealing professionally with the differences between the amount of theory and practice in law enforcement agencies / border police training we can say that both knowledge and experience have a real chance to develop only while being settled in a mixture that gives the community they are functioning in better results. Cadets must learn to combine theory with practice through their own actions. Geared towards the EU situation, the concept of authority and responsibility, which is anchored in training and practice, provides a better orientation towards practicability in the police / border police work. The paper argues for a comprehensive understanding of young officer duties from the perspective of training, which impacts the goal of situational awareness and integrated training. We provide the argument, that one of the important police / border police officer’ duty is authority and responsibility and we focus on the specific nature of the activities for a better understanding of this context-dependent complexity.