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Police Practice

BTech: Forensic Investigation

Course code: BTFIN

Admission Requirements
National Diploma or M+3 qualification and proof of involvement in investigation or experince.

Aim
This qualification is aimed at exploring the study field of crime investigation, enhancing the level of knowledge and skills of investigators in the field to the benefit of the academic and industry. Offer students the opportunity to reach the highest academic qualification in the field of crime investigation.

Recognition of prior learning (RPL)
Recognition of prior learning (RPL) is the recognition by UNISA of any learning that occured before the applicatnt decided to register for an academic qualification.

  • The RPL programme enables you to gain recognition and credit for what you already know and can do.
  • You receive credit for what you have learned from your experience rather than from the experience itself. For example,if you have worked as a police official for ten years, you will have learned a vast number of skills, such as how to effect an arrest and how to write a statement.
  • These are the kinds of skills that you could recieve credit for.
  • RPL makes ti possible for you to earn credit towards a University academic qualification and thus to receive recognition at UNISA for skills and knowledge you already posses.

An applicant who has between five and ten years investigation experience. The submission of a portfolio containing the following:

  • Proof of five years' active investigation experience
  • A typed paragraph of not more than 50 words setting our your experience in each of the following fields:
    • Crime scence/scene of incident
    • Interviewing
    • Intelligence
    • Identification
    • Investigation methods and techniques
    • Prosecution/litigation process

Once the porfolio has been accepted a student will receive permission to enrol for the BTech: Forensic Investigation, No credits will be awarded.

OR

A staff member from the Forensic Science Laboratory or the SAPS Criminal Record Centre (between 5 and 10 years investigation experience)

The submission of a portfolio containing the following:

  • Proof of fiveyears active investigation experience
  • Proof of the successful completion of three years in house training
  • Proof of more than ten years active investigation experience

OR

Applicatints will more than ten years investigation experience.

  • A typed submission of not more than 750 words setting out your experience in each of the following fields:
    • Crime scene/scene of incident
    • Interviewing
    • Intelligence
    • Identification
    • Investigation methos and techniques
    • Prosecution/litigation process
    Once the portfolio has been accepted the student will receive permission to enrol for the BTech: Forensic Investigation. No credits will be awarded.

    Applications or enquries can be directed to the following:

    BTech: Forensic Investigation

    Subject Name Subject Code
    1. Research Methodolgy RME201P
    2. Forensic interviewing IV FOI401F
    3. Forensic Methods & Techniques IV FOM401F
    4. Identification IV IDE401F
    5. Litigation Process IV LTP401F
    6. Scene of Incident IV SCI401F
    7. Intelligence INI401F