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Security services ethics

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Course Unit Code060-0533/01
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated2 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Choice-compulsory type B
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *Third Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
HOL49Ing. Věra Holubová, Ph.D.
Summary
Compliance with ethical principles should be inherent to any person who lives and works in the community of other people. The more it should apply to security work. Nowadays, in which crime is a daily routine, there is a growing interest in quality protection of life, health and property. In addition to the activities of the Police of the Czech Republic, the services of the private security sector include private security services. With increasing interest in the protection of life, health or property, the demands on these protectors are increasing, including in the area of ethical principles. These principles are very important for the Police of the Czech Republic or private security services and their observance or non-compliance can have a major impact on their activities. It is the ethical and moral behavior of workers in the security sector that creates the overall impression on the institution they represent.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
The student will acquire and understand the knowledge of deontology with a focus on ethics in security practice with an emphasis on professions in the field of commercial security industry and security forces. They will be able to apply the acquired knowledge correctly in practice on the basis of correctly evaluated and set professional ethical principles.
Course Contents
1. Deontology in security activities - concept and goals of deontology, history
of concept, deontics, phenomenology, etiology.
2. Ethics - the subject and function of ethics, morality, public opinion and
morality, professional morality.
3. Professional ethics - the emergence of professional ethics, regulation of
occupation, social behavior as part of professional conduct.
4. Economic and business ethics - business ethics, characteristics and
development of business
5. Ethics as a discipline.
6. Ethics tools in business.
7. Deontology in Private Security Services - Professionalism of the worker,
personal, social and moral profile of the worker, basic character
requirements for the acceptance of a worker of private security services.
8. Principles of ethical behavior of private security personnel.
9. Basic moral standards applied in the activities of employees of private
security services - ethical relations of SBS employees to the public,
professional moral profile of the SBS employee.
10. Ethical problem areas in the commercial security sector.
11. Employee training for ethical behavior.
12. Ethics of a member of the security corps - ethical obligations under Act
No. 361/2003 Coll.
13. Ethics of a member of the Police of the Czech Republic - ethical duties of
a police officer under the Resolution of the Council of Europe, legal
duties of a member according to Act No. 361/2003 Coll.
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
1) Anzenbacher, A. Úvod do etiky. Vyd. v tomto překladu 2., V nakl. Academia
1., Praha: 2001, 292 s. ISBN 80-200-0917-5.
2) Dolista, J. a kol. Etika zaměstnance veřejné správy: vysokoškolská
učebnice. 1. vyd. České Budějovice: Vysoká škola evropských a regionálních
studií, 2006, 122 s. ISBN 80-867-0820-9.
3) Ethics at work. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, c1991. Harvard
business review paperback. ISBN 0-87584-286-0.
1) Anzenbacher, A. Úvod do etiky. Vyd. v tomto překladu 2., V nakl. Academia
1., Praha: 2001, 292 s. ISBN 80-200-0917-5.
2) Dolista, J. a kol. Etika zaměstnance veřejné správy: vysokoškolská
učebnice. 1. vyd. České Budějovice: Vysoká škola evropských a regionálních
studií, 2006, 122 s. ISBN 80-867-0820-9.
3) Ethics at work. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, c1991. Harvard
business review paperback. ISBN 0-87584-286-0.
Recommended Reading:
Dufková, I. a kol. Policie a profesní etika. Praha, 2003
Dufková, I. a kol. Policie a profesní etika. Praha, 2003
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