Police Foundations

As a Police Foundations graduate, you play an active role in the law enforcement system, ensuring public safety by maintaining law and order: protecting members of the public and their property; and preventing, detecting and investigating crime.

This reality-based curriculum is taught by former police officers with extensive investigative experience. You’ll gain practical, in-field experience via volunteer opportunities with municipal police services and local service agencies and hands-on experiential learning in the Justice Studies Simulation Lab.

Graduates or students enrolled in their last level of Niagara College’s Police Foundations program can gain a Protection, Security and Investigation OR Community and Justice Services (Correctional Worker) diploma with 8 additional months of study, based on available space and admission requirements.

What You’ll Learn

• Complete all tasks in compliance with pertinent legislation, as well as policing standards, regulations and guidelines.
• Analyze all relevant information and make effective and legally defensible decisions in accordance with ethical and professional standards.
• Be accountable for one’s actions when carrying out all tasks.
• Develop and implement ongoing effective strategies for personal and professional development.
• Ensure the respect of human rights and freedoms in all interactions.
• Work co-operatively in multidisciplinary teams to achieve mutual goals.
• Collaborate in the development and implementation of community policing strategies.
• Monitor, evaluate and document behaviours, situations and events accurately and discreetly in compliance with legal, professional, ethical and organizational requirements.
• Mitigate risks and maintain order by applying effective strategies in crisis, conflict and emergency situations.
• Take positive actions to help crime victims.
• Conduct investigations by collecting, documenting, preserving and presenting admissible evidence.