Acquire standard, ethical, policing practices, procedures, and technologies to ensure public security, maintain stability, reduce crime, and ensure public confidence.
Categories
Degree Programs| Program Title | Policing and Security |
| Exit Award(s) | Associate Degree / Diploma Higher Diploma Bachelor of Science |
| Academic Unit offering the program | Faculty of Resilience |
| Program Chair | Dr. Khameis Al Abdouli |
| Duration | 2 – year Associate Degree / Diploma 3 – year Higher Diploma 4 – year Bachelor of Science |
| No. of Credits | 60 credits – Associate Degree / Diploma 90 credits – Higher Diploma 120 credits – Bachelor of Science |
| Delivery Site(s) | Rabdan Academy |
| Mode(s) of Delivery | Face-to-Face (maximum of up to 25% online courses) |
| Mode(s) of Study | Full-Time / Part-Time |
The program prepares graduates to become leaders of a multidisciplinary team in the application of standard, ethical, policing practices, procedures, and technologies to ensure public security by identifying threats, assessing risk, and implementing organisational, interagency solutions to maintain stability, reduce crime, and ensure public confidence in the resilience of the nation.
The program consists of courses involving the management of police operations in the United Arab Emirates. It includes leadership, crime investigation, community policing, strategic planning, and the command of operations. Through a combination of lecture, discussion, simulation exercises, and applied real-world scenarios, students learn team organisation, professional ethics, interagency operations, and resilience through the core principles of contemporary relevance, integration, cooperation, multi-agency coordination, and interoperability. Graduates are leaders who contribute to the safety, security, defence, emergency preparedness, and crisis management (SSDEC) for national resilience.
- Have relevant technological skills, knowledge, and abilities for employment as a manager in the SSDEC sector.
- Work, lead, and communicate effectively in a team to achieve common goals.
- Apply standard, ethical practices, procedures, and technologies to collect information, identify threats, assess risk, and develop effective programs.
- Implement organizational, interagency solutions to strengthen the SSDEC community and build national resilience capacities.
- Expand knowledge and capabilities through continuing education, certification, or other lifelong learning opportunities.
- Fulfil civic duties and responsibilities through local, national, or global service
- Effectively communicate SSDEC matters using oral, written, and presentation methods
- Critically evaluate the legal, social, and ethical implications related to SSDEC management and practice
- Demonstrate knowledge and research methodologies of a range of relevant principles and theories in the application of complex problem solving related to SSDEC national and international sectors
- Demonstrate leadership and teamwork skills within a range of SSDEC contexts to defend positions and innovative solutions
- Apply SSDEC knowledge, skills and attributes to include multiple perspectives in formulating effective resilience in real world examples and scenarios
- Apply contemporary learning activities to support the UAE response to evolving policing and security threats and dangers
| Code | Title |
| PAS104 | Law and Criminal Justice Studies |
| PAS201 | Human Rights, Ethics, and Policing |
| PAS202 | Organisational Culture and Policing |
| PAS204 | Child Protection |
| PAS301 | Human Resources Studies |
| SEC302 | Applied Stakeholder Analysis |
| SEC403 | Strategic Planning |
| SEC100 | Introduction to Academic Studies (Gen Ed) |
Semester One
| Code | Name | Credits | Pre Req/ |
| SEC100 | Introduction to Academic Studies (Gen Ed) | 3 | |
| PAS101 | Introduction Policing | 3 | |
| MTH101 | General Education Mathematics (Gen Ed – NSM) | 3 | |
| ENG210 | English 2 (Gen Ed) | 3 | |
| PAS102 | Introduction to Police Leadership | 3 |
| Code | Name | Credits | Pre Req/ |
| PAS104 | Law and Criminal Justice Studies | 3 | |
| PAS201 | Human Rights, Ethics and Policing | 3 | |
| EMS100 | Emirates Studies (Gen Ed – HFA) | 3 | |
| ISL100 | Islamic Studies (Gen Ed – HFA) | 3 | |
| Elective 1 | 3 |
| Code | Name | Credits | Pre Req/ |
| HUM100 | Ethical Studies (Gen Ed – HFA) | 3 | |
| PAS202 | Organisational Culture and Policing | 3 | |
| PAS203 | Community Policing | 3 | |
| ARA100 | Arabic Studies (Gen Ed – HFA) | 3 | |
| Elective 2 | 3 |
| Code | Name | Credits | Pre Req/ |
| PAS204 | Child Protection | 3 | |
| SEC290 | Fundamentals of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Gen Ed – SBS) | 3 | |
| PAS103 | Introduction to Crime Scenes | 3 | |
| Elective 3 | 3 | ||
| Elective 4 | 3 |
| Code | Name | Credits | Pre Req/ |
| PAS301 | Human Resources Studies | 3 | |
| BCM100 | Introduction to BCM | 3 | |
| PAS305 | Intelligence Gathering and Effective Source Management | 3 | |
| SCI100 | Environment, Health and Safety (Gen Ed) | 3 | |
| Elective 5 | 3 |
| Code | Name | Credits | Pre Req/ |
| PAS303 | Criminology | 3 | |
| SEC302 | Applied Stakeholder Analysis | 3 | |
| MGT100 | Management Fundamentals (Gen Ed – SBS ) | 3 | |
| PAS206 | Crime Investigation | 3 | |
| Elective 6 | 3 |
| Code | Name | Credits | Pre Req/ |
| SEC303 | Introduction to Research Methods | 3 | 60 cr |
| SEC401 | Workplace Secondment | 3 | 81 cr |
| PAS205 | Road Policing and Public Safety | 3 | |
| ENG310 | English 3 | 3 | ENG210 |
| Elective 7 | 3 |
| Code | Name | Credits | Pre Req/ |
| SEC490 | Project in SSDEC Management | 3 | SEC303 |
| SEC403 | Strategic Planning | 3 | |
| SEC404 | Understanding Strategic Threats | 3 | |
| SEC210 | Systems and Technologies (Gen Ed) | 3 | |
| Elective 8 | 3 |
