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Elements and Performance Criteria

Required Skills

This describes the essential skills and knowledge and their level required for this unit

Required Skills

Communication oral and written

Required Knowledge

Names family connections and character of community members encountered

Role of police and justice system

Communication rules and patterns of the specific community

Role of service providers

Community language or dialect and cultural values

Evidence Required

Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit

It is essential for this unit that competence be demonstrated in the officers ability to cultivate the trust and cooperation of members of an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community

Consistency in performance

Evidence should be gathered over a period of time in a range of actual or simulated workplace environments

Context of and specific resources for assessment

Context of assessment

Evidence should be gathered over a period of time in a range of actual or simulated workplace environments

Specific resources for assessment

No special implications

Guidance information for assessment

Information that will assist or guide assessment will be written during Phase II of the Review of the PUA Public Safety Training Package

Information that will assist or guide assessment will be written during Phase II of the Review of the PUA00 Public Safety Training Package.

Range Statement


The Range Statement relates to the Unit of Competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording in the Performance Criteria is detailed below.
Cultural identity	Accepted identification as a person of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent including membership of a particular land, linguistic, clan, skin or kin groups and ceremonial status where applicable
Community	Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people as a group within Australian society or a particular local community of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people
Parameters of action	These should cover modes of approach, communication patterns, allocation of roles etc.
Assigned powers and organisational guidelines	Designated Liaison Officers may lack any police powers; Community Police Officers may have powers restricted to certain groups, areas or offences
Advisable intervention	Normally the specialist officer would take the primary role in dealing with members of his or her specific community
Service providers	To include other government agencies, voluntary organisations and community organisations