Opole, Poland

Internal Security

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⇑Internal Security at UO

Language: PolishStudies in Polish
Subject area: security services
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: uni.opole.pl/en

⇑Test: Is Internal Security the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. In a seminar, you’re asked to analyse how local services responded to a major flood. Where do you start?

2. During an internship, your manager asks you to assess the risks around a large open-air concert. What do you do?

3. Seminars, case studies and reports will be in English, and your group will include people from countries with very different security systems. How do you feel about that?

4. A debate breaks out over expanding CCTV in city centres. What’s your take?

5. A wave of false rumours online sparks panic in a town. How do you see the role of the authorities?

6. In a crisis-management exercise, you’re put in charge of coordinating the police, fire service and local officials. How do you approach it?

7. Which kind of dissertation topic appeals to you most?

8. You notice a colleague at work is handling sensitive information carelessly. What do you do?

9. Where do you see yourself after graduating?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in Internal Security?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Security
Security is freedom from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercive change) from external forces. Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be persons and social groups, objects and institutions, ecosystems, and any other entity or phenomenon vulnerable to unwanted change by its environment.
Security
Everywhere, when societies originate, we see the strongest, most warlike races seizing the exclusive government of the society.  Everywhere we see these races seizing a monopoly on security within certain more or less extensive boundaries, depending on their number and strength.And, this monopoly being, by its very nature, extraordinarily profitable, everywhere we see the races invested with the monopoly on security devoting themselves to bitter struggles, in order to add to the extent of their market, the number of their forced consumers, and hence the amount of their gains.
War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.
Gustave de Molinari, tr. J. Huston McCulloch, §VI of The Production of Security (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009; orig. 1849), pp. 34–35.
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In the entire world, there is not a single establishment of the security industry that is not based on monopoly or on communism.  …  Political economy has disapproved equally of monopoly and communism in the various branches of human activity, wherever it has found them.  Is it not then strange and unreasonable that it accepts them in the security industry?
Gustave de Molinari, tr. J. Huston McCulloch, §IV of The Production of Security (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009; orig. 1849), pp. 27–28.
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To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.
Gerry Spence, Give Me Liberty! Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century, Ch. 16 : Security, the One-Way Ticket to Slavery, p. 174 (1998)
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