APPLICATION DEADLINE : MAY 01, 2007 Cost: $1000+Airfare+tuition
With the lifting of the Iron Curtain, Eastern Europe has not been the same. It has undergone rapid, tumultuous changes, and nowhere is that more evident and profound than in Poland. It was the invasion of this country that launched the Second World War. Launch your understanding of the new Eastern Europe through this visit to Poland, and see this part of the world assimiilate into a new world order as it takes its steps into the 21st century.
In August 1989, the Polish government abandoned its communist system in favor of a Western-style democracy and a free-market economy. The Polish police are still in the course of reorganization aimed at increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of their actions under new, democratic circumstances. Classes will focus on the changing aspects of police structure and management.
During this program, the group will have the opportunity to tour several criminal justice facilities, including Warsaw City Headquarters, regional police stations, and a regional forensic laboratory. The group will be based at the International Specialist Police Training Center at the Police Academy in Legionowo, thirty minutes from Warsaw.
There will be lectures, held at various locations, on the history of the legal system in Poland; the criminal justice system in Poland; police organization and management; police training; the courts; correctional system; crime in Poland; community policing; human rights issues; victimology; scientific approaches to criminal investigation.
Students will visit the Regional and County Police Headquarters in different cities, including the Dog Handlers and Dog Training Department in Sulkowice.
Part of the package will include sightseeing tours in Warsaw (including the Royal Castle, Warsaw ghetto, the Old Town Square, Bialoleka Prison), and several other historic and picturesque cities in Poland, including a region sharing a border with Belarus. The sightsecing tours include visits to Bialystok, Bialowieza National Park, Krakow, the Auschwitz concentration camp, and the Wieliczka salt mine.
STUDY VISIT IN POLAND
REPRESENTATIVES OF SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY
30.06.2007 – 12.07.2007
30 June, 2007 (Saturday)
arrival, Warsaw International Airport, transport to the Police Academy in Legionowo, accommodation
1 July, 2007 (Sunday)
8.00 a.m. – 8.30 a.m. – breakfast, Police Academy, Legionowo
10.30 a.m. – 2.00 p.m. – Warsaw sightseeing, Old Square, Old Town, Warsaw Uprising Museum, etc.
2.30 p.m. – 3.30 p.m. – lunch, “Sphinx” Restaurant, Warsaw
3.30 p.m. – 6.00 p.m. – “Arkadia” shopping center, Warsaw
7.00 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. – dinner, Police Academy, Legionowo
2 July, 2007 (Monday)
8.00 a.m. – 8.30 a.m. – breakfast, Police Academy, Legionowo
10.00 a.m. – 1.00 p.m. – welcoming ceremony, the Commander of the Police Academy in Legionowo will be present, short movie about the Polish National Police (English), presentation about the organizational structure and main tasks of the Polish National Police, about the Polish criminal justice system – Mr. Janusz Nabialek, Criminal Intelligence Bureau, National Police Headquarters, Warsaw
1.30 p.m. – 2.30 p.m. – lunch, Police Academy, Legionowo
2.30 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. – meeting with the police psychologists, psychological tests for police recruits, police cadets, etc., Police Academy, Legionowo
5.30 p.m. – 6.45 p.m. – transport from Police Academy, Legionowo to Warsaw
7.00 p.m. – 9.00 p.m. – welcoming dinner with the Commander-in-Chief of the Polish National Police, Mr. Konrad Kornatowski, Hotel “Karat”, Warsaw
9.00 p.m. – 10.00 p.m. – come back to the Police Academy, Legionowo
3 July, 2007 (Tuesday)
8.00 a.m. – 8.30 a.m. – breakfast, Police Academy, Legionowo
9.00 a.m. – 1.00 p.m. – Forensic Department, Police Academy Legionowo (fingerprints, place of accident, simulator, etc).
1.30 p.m. – 2.30 p.m. - lunch, Police Academy, Legionowo
3.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m. – Chemical Laboratory, narcotics and other illegal substances, Police Academy, Legionowo
6.30 p.m. – 7.00 p.m. – dinner, Police Academy, Legionowo
4 July, 2006 (Wednesday)
8.00 a.m. – 8.30 a.m. – breakfast, Police Academy, Legionowo
8.30 a.m. – 9.45 a.m. - transport from the Police Academy, Legionowo to Warsaw
10.00 a.m. – 1.00 p.m. – visit at the National Police Headquarters, Warsaw, presentations about the international police cooperation and training exchange, and Internal Affairs Bureau
1.00 p.m. – 2.00 p.m. – lunch, National Police Headquarters, Warsaw
2.30 p.m. – 5.00 p.m. – visit at the Metropolitan Police Headquarters, Warsaw, command & control center, forensic laboratory, Museum of Police
5.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m. – come back to the Police Academy, Legionowo
6.30 p.m. – 7.20 p.m. – dinner, Police Academy, Legionowo
5 July, 2007 (Thursday)
7.30 a.m. – 8.00 a.m. – breakfast, Police Academy, Legionowo
8.00 a.m. – 10.30 a.m. – trip to Piotrkow Trybunalski City
10.30 a.m. – 12.00 p.m. – visit at the Jail, Piotrkow Trybunalski City
12.00 p.m. – 1.30 p.m. – trip from Piotrkow Trybunalski City to Czestochowa City
1.30 p.m. – 2.30 p.m. – lunch, Czestochowa, a place called „TeaHouse” close to Jasna Gora Monastery
2.30 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. – Jasna Gora Monastery sightseeing, one of the holiest place in Poland, the place of cult of Saint Mary - the patron of Poland and the Polish nation
7.00 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. – check-in and dinner, Hotel “Kmicic”, Zloty Potok
6 July, 2007 (Friday)
8.00 a.m. – 8.30 a.m – breakfast, Hotel “Kmicic”, Zloty Potok
9.00 a.m. – 2.00 p.m. – Jura Krakowsko-Czestochowska Mountains sightseeing (old castles in Olsztyn City, Mirow City, Bobolice City and Ostreznik)
2.30 p.m. – 3.30 p.m. – lunch, Hotel “Kmicic”, Zloty Potok
3.30 p.m. – 7.00 p.m. – trip to Cracow City
7.00 p.m. – Cracow City, check-in, Hotel “Cracovia”
7.30 p.m. – 8.30 p.m. - dinner, other place in Cracow City - “Morskie Oko” Restaurant
7 July, 2007 (Saturday)
8.00 a.m. – 8.30 a.m. – breakfast, Hotel “Cracovia”, Cracow City
9.30 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. – Old Town & Old Square in Cracow, Saint Mary`s Church sightseeing
12.00 p.m. – 1.00 p.m. – dinner, State Police Headquarters, Cracow together with State Police Chief
2.00 p.m. – 5.00 p.m. – Royal Castle sightseeing, Cracow
6.00 p.m. – 6.30 p.m. – dinner, “Pod Zlota Pipa” Restaurant, Cracow, come back to Hotel “Cracovia”
8 July, 2007 (Sunday)
8.00 a.m. – 8.30 a.m. – breakfast, Hotel “Cracovia”, Cracow City
9.50 a.m. – 12.50 p.m. – the oldest and biggest salt mine in Europe sightseeing, Wieliczka City
1.00 p.m. – 2.00 p.m. – lunch, Wieliczka City
2.00 p.m. – 7.00 p.m. – trip back to the Police Academy, Legionowo
7.00 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. – dinner, Police Academy, Legionowo
9 July, 2007 (Monday)
8.00 a.m. – 8.30 a.m. – breakfast, Police Academy, Legionowo
9.00 a.m. – 10.30 a.m. – visit at the County Court, Legionowo City
11.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. – visit at the County Police, Legionowo City
1.00 p.m. – 1.45 p.m. – lunch, Police Academy, Legionowo
2.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m. – Traffic Department, Police Academy Legionowo
6.30 p.m. – 7.00 p.m. – dinner, Police Academy Legionowo
10 July, 2007 (Tuesday)
8.00 a.m. – 8.40 a.m. – breakfast, Police Academy, Legionowo
9.30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m. – Department of Police Tactics & Intervention Techniques, Police Academy, Legionowo (presentation of police intervention techniques, shooting range).
1.20 p.m. – 2.00 p.m. – lunch, Police Academy, Legionowo
3.00 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. – visit at the River Police Station, Nieporet Town
6.30 p.m. – 7.00 p.m. – dinner, Police Academy, Legionowo
11 July, 2007 (Wednesday)
7.30 a.m. – 8.00 a.m. – breakfast, Police Academy, Legionowo
8.00 a.m. – 10.00 a.m. – transport from the Police Academy, Legionowo to Sulkowice Town
10.00 a.m. – 1.00 a.m. – special training center for police dog-handlers and police dogs (K-9)
1.00 p.m. – 2.00 p.m. – lunch, Sulkowice Town
2.30 p.m. – 4.00 p.m. – Museum of Casimir Pulaski in Warka City
5.00 p.m. – 8.00 p.m. – official ending of the study visit in Poland, certificates, gifts & barbecue
8.00 p.m. – 9.30 p.m. – come back to the Police Academy, Legionowo.
12 July, 2007 (Thursday)
breakfast, check-out, transport from the Police Academy, Legionowo to the Warsaw International Airport, departure to the U.S.A
