Feedback of participants on organization of training activities as an area of quality evaluation in the qualification improvement process of the Lithuanian police officers

In this publication the relevance of the feedback of participants on the organization of training activities of the Lithuanian Police officers is analyzed. Substantially it could be said that from a scientific point of view this topic is researched insufficiently and only in a fragmented way. The topic is lacking comprehensive and systematic approach on the issue in question. This publication contains an introduction and two sections. In the introduction it is sought to stress the importance of the quality of training by presenting historically relevant scientific sources, where the topic is analyzed thus emphasizing the relevance of the issue. The first section is dedicated for the analysis of areas of evaluation of training quality and their content. The legal provisions aso f the years 2011-2014 in the area of evaluation of training quality of the qualification improvement process of the Lithuanian Police officers are analyzed. Whereas in the second section the feedback of participants is looked more into detail: construction of its conception, the analysis of how in this area the quality of police further training is evaluated. Feedback of participants on the organization of training activities as an area of quality evaluation is one of the most constant and invariable indicators, which is used for the evaluation of training quality for many years. In this section it is also researched what are the criteria for the evaluation of feedback, the attention is directed to the change of these criteria during recent several years. Therefore the precondition is laid down that in the process of qualification improvement of the Lithuanian Police officers it is still searched for the optimal and more efficient format for the use of the feedback of particpants. Since 2011 the process of internal quality evaluation within the Lithuanian Police School was started in a very directed way: the legal regulation was defined, specific areas of quality evaluation were identified, data is being analyzed and various training quality improvement forms are being presented. Major part of the participants who completed qualification improvement training activities do evaluate positively the quality of trainings organized in the Lithuanian Police School. They mentioned the activities of trainers, content of training, usefulness and efficiency. Nevertheless due to dissimilar provisions of the evaluation of training quality and taking into consideration the structural changes of the Lithuanian Police School, it is complex to compare all areas of training quality evaluation, their content and criteria. This encumbers the overall discourse of the internal training quality evaluation