International Cooperation in Educating and Training Police: Forwarding ASEAN’s Vision 2020 to Combat Non-Traditional Crimes

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14738/assrj.412.3405

Keywords:

Police education and training, non-traditional crime, ASEAN, international police cooperation

Abstract

This paper draws a detailed description of overall cross-border crimes that Southeast Asian region must be faced when forwarding one common communities on 2020. In order to improving capacity to preventing and combating non-traditional crimes, enhancing international cooperation in education and training for law enforcement agencies is considered as one of the priorities with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members. Thus, identifying effective models and professional opportunities in this field between Universities/Academies Police plays an important role in regional strategies to fighting transnational organized crime. To some extent, this study will divide into three main parts. Part one introduces briefly the ASEAN’s challenges and difficulties in dealing with non-traditional security and its forms of crime must be faced in integrated process with the worldwide. Part two gauges two basically current systems to police education and training around the world and its advantages and disadvantages. Finally, part three will discuss how about perspectives for international cooperation in training for law enforcement agencies to combating non-traditional crimes at ASEAN region in the future.

Author Biography

Hai Thanh Luong, Royal Melbourne Institute for Technology (RMIT) University

Mr. Hai Thanh Luong (Major Colonel Police) graduated Bachelor of Law at the People’s Police Academy of Vietnam since 2004 and spent continuously around ten years in law enforcement agencies with both lecturing and practicing’ activities. In 2010, he awarded Australian scholarship and achieved Master for Transnational Crime Prevention at University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. To date, he have completed PhD with topic ‘transnational drug trafficking and law enforcement: a Vietnam perspective’ at School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, Victoria, Australia. His interests of areas are focus on border crime, transnational organized crime in Asia, drug trafficking, policing and police training.

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2017-07-03

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Luong, H. T. (2017). International Cooperation in Educating and Training Police: Forwarding ASEAN’s Vision 2020 to Combat Non-Traditional Crimes. Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 4(12). https://doi.org/10.14738/assrj.412.3405