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Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney
17 April 2006

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Mr Moroney � training vision.

College plan for top police

FUTURE police commissioners and senior commanders will be groomed at an FBI-style training academy that the Police Commissioner, Ken Moroney, wants to see set up before he retires next year.

Mr Moroney expects his successor to be the last officer to become the state's top policeman without having passed through such a command college, which he likens to a finishing school for police.

NSW is the only state without its own college for senior police. There is no formally structured path through the upper ranks, and no particular qualification required of prospective commissioners.

A program inspired by the FBI's academy at Quantico, Virginia, would provide that path for commissioned officers who aspired to senior command, Mr Moroney told the Herald.

The proposal, which he hoped would be an important legacy of his tenure, has the interest of the Minister for Police, Carl Scully. A concept paper is being considered by the Police Ministry.

Mr Moroney, whose contract expires in August next year, revealed his plans for the college to the Herald as he outlined his vision for the services's future, including the possibility of recruiting civilians into senior policing roles.

"It's about some long-term thinking and strategies which go beyond the issue of the recruitment of police - [not only recruiting] more and more police.

" � It is about not only appreciating and understanding the tactical and operational issues of the past and how you prepare for the future but it is about how, as senior commanders, you deal with a very diverse workforce - how you recruit, select, train - that diverse workforce.

"Who do you recruit for the future? Is it more and more police, or do you need a mix? And what is the right mix of specialists and generalists?"

The command college would probably be built on the police academy campus at Goulburn, and Mr Moroney said he hoped it would build an international reputation, like the FBI's Quantico academy.

Mr Moroney is an unabashed fan of that academy, of which he and the Deputy Commissioner Andrew Scipione - increasingly seen as Mr Moroney's likely successor - are graduates.

"I'm biased when it comes to the FBI," Mr Moroney said. "I've been there and I've done their program. Scippie's done their program. It is the business."

Mr Moroney expected that like Quantico, the Goulburn college would eventually attract applicants from candidates worldwide, and not just police.

"I would hope that not only can we put police through our command college but we are able to put other deputy service chiefs [through]."

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College plan for top police

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17 April 2006