NEW SECURITY LEARNING

By Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado

Why discuss culture together with defence and security? One answer might be that culture, an exclusive, frivolous, leisure pursuit of the rich, their flunkies, and social climbers, requires elaborate security to defend its providers and consumers from the righteous anger of the people, whose hard-earned taxes, or lottery losses, are squandered on subsidising fripperies such as opera, ballet, theatre, concerts, and art shows with dead cows in aspic, to which la-di-dah people wear fancy clothes.

by R.A. Sandy Sweet, President – Canadian Police Knowledge Network

There’s a new buzz within Canadian police HR circles these days.  Competency-based management (CBM) represents an entirely new approach to HR operations for many police services.