Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Justice Studies
Learning Methods
Lecture
Seminar
Workshop
Module Offerings
5200PSDA-APR-MTP
5200PSDA-JAN-MTP
5200PSDA-SEP-MTP
5200PSDA-SEP_NS-MTP
Aims
To compare the professional standard requirements within the police service to those of similar professional organisations. Examining the success of the Independent Police Complaint Commission (IPCC), in holding the police service accountable to the public. Socio-economic, mental health, and diversity issues within the community, which impacts upon the criminal justice system, will also be reviewed. Identifying potential links between terrorism and other forms of crime. Exploring the potential for an insider threat within the police service and strategies in place to prevent this. The whole module will be viewed through the lens of ethical behaviour, to ensure highest standards maintained.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Consider the importance of professional standards requirements within the police service, analysing the relevance and capability of current
policies and procedures to reduce professional malpractice, relative to the best practice in other professional organisations.
2.
Recognise the importance of public accountability and ethical considerations to the Police Service in assessing risk and risk aversion, thereby relating ethics and accountability to the decision making process of key policing incidents
3.
Consider how socio-economic, mental health and diversity issues within the community may impact upon the criminal justice system.
4.
Discuss how effective partnership collaboration and a focus on youth engagement can promote desistance in criminal activities, as well as community cohesion, whilst assisting with offender rehabilitation.
5.
Examine the effectiveness of organisational structures, inter-relationships and processes that exist in counterterrorism policing.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:
The police officer role, and the relevance of independent governing bodies. Relevance of current professional standards policies and procedures. The right of the police to 'constabulary independence'. Operational decisions and external and internal influences. Risk: Accountability, aversion and avoidance. Societal diversity and the criminal justice system. Effective partnership collaboration within the Criminal justice system. Counter Terrorism.
The police officer role, and the relevance of independent governing bodies. Relevance of current professional standards policies and procedures. The right of the police to 'constabulary independence'. Operational decisions and external and internal influences. Risk: Accountability, aversion and avoidance. Societal diversity and the criminal justice system. Effective partnership collaboration within the Criminal justice system. Counter Terrorism.
Module Overview:
This module will compare the professional standard requirements within the police service to those of similar professional organisations. You will examine the success of the Independent Police Complaint Commission (IPCC) and identify potential links between terrorism and other forms of crime. Within this module you will also explore the potential for an insider threat within the police service and strategies in place to prevent this.
This module will compare the professional standard requirements within the police service to those of similar professional organisations. You will examine the success of the Independent Police Complaint Commission (IPCC) and identify potential links between terrorism and other forms of crime. Within this module you will also explore the potential for an insider threat within the police service and strategies in place to prevent this.
Additional Information:
Lectures and other activities will provide the students with information to enable them to apply the knowledge acquired, within the tasks and experiences incorporated into the workshops. Discussions and activities such as comparing and contrasting the professional standard requirements within the police service to those of similar professional organisations. Reflecting upon the potential for an insider threat within the police service, and identifying the strategies in place to prevent this.
All assessed components on this module must be successfully passed for credit to be released.
The Knowledge, Skills and Behaviour which are linked to this module are:
Knowledge:
Skills:
Behaviours:
Lectures and other activities will provide the students with information to enable them to apply the knowledge acquired, within the tasks and experiences incorporated into the workshops. Discussions and activities such as comparing and contrasting the professional standard requirements within the police service to those of similar professional organisations. Reflecting upon the potential for an insider threat within the police service, and identifying the strategies in place to prevent this.
All assessed components on this module must be successfully passed for credit to be released.
The Knowledge, Skills and Behaviour which are linked to this module are:
Knowledge:
- The ethics and values of professional policing, including: duty of care, service delivery, employment practice, efficiency, effectiveness and value for money, Code of Ethics, professional standards, and equality, diversity and human rights.
- Key cross-cutting and inter-dependent areas of policing, including: roles and responsibilities, criminal justice, counter terrorism, vulnerability (including public protection and mental health) and risk.
- Applicable aspects of Authorised Professional Practice (the official source of policing professional practice), legal and organisational requirements relating to the operational policing context (response, community, intelligence, investigation and roads/transport).
- Effectively respond to incidents, preserving scenes and evidence when necessary.
- Manage and resolve conflict safely and lawfully
- Arrest, detain and report individuals safely and lawfully
- Conduct diligent and efficient, priority and high volume investigations
- Effectively interview victims, witnesses and suspects
- Systematically gather, submit and share information and intelligence to further policing-related outcomes
- Risk manage health and safety for self and for others.
- How to interpret and apply the letter and essence of all relevant law, as it relates to any encountered policing situation, incident or context.
- Social behaviour and society, including their origins, development, organisation, networks and institutions and how this relates to policing across diverse and increasingly complex communities.
- The causes, mitigations and prevention of crime and how this knowledge and understanding can influence and be applied to accountable decision-making in all operational policing environments.
- In-depth knowledge, understanding and expertise relevant to organisational/local needs, including the following operational policing contexts: response, community, intelligence, investigation and roads/transport.
- Different approaches to systematic evidence-based preventative policing, including how to critically analyse, interpret, implement, share and evaluate findings to problem solve and further positive outcomes. These may relate to internal organisational practice or external social or criminal factors.
Skills:
- Apply Authorised Professional Practice and any local policy applicable to the operational policing context.
- Gather, handle and accurately analyse information and intelligence from a variety of sources to support law enforcement and to maximise policing effectiveness.
- Provide an initial, autonomous and ongoing response to incidents, which can be complex, confrontational and life- threatening, to bring about the best possible outcomes. Provide an initial, autonomous response to crime scenes, where encountered, that require the management and preservation of evidence and exhibits.
- Provide leadership to protect the public, and empathetic and appropriate support to victims, witnesses and vulnerable people.
- Manage and conduct effective and efficient priority and high volume investigations. Use initiative to diligently progress investigations, identifying, evaluating and following lines of enquiry to inform the possible initiation of criminal proceedings. Apply an investigative mind-set when decision-making. Present permissible evidence to authorities where required.
- Assess risk and threats across increasingly complex policing contexts, to take decisions and evaluate initiatives and their outcomes, including the impact of differing actions and methods, in accordance with the policing national decision- making model and evidence-based principles. Take account of the best available evidence from a wide array of sources, including research & analysis, when making decisions. Apply justified discretion when appropriate and it is in the public interest to do so.
- Plan, apply and evaluate different policing approaches alongside partner organisations or as part of a multi-disciplinary team to address identified, often complex, issues, concerns and situations to reduce and prevent crime in communities. Provide supportive leadership to community groups, making informed decisions that encourage the delivery of localised strategies.
Behaviours:
- Taking accountability
- Being accountable and taking ownership for own role and responsibilities, whilst being effective and willing to take appropriate, justifiable risks.
- Professional integrity - Maintain the highest standards of professionalism and trustworthiness, making sure that values, moral codes and ethical standards are always upheld, including challenging others where appropriate.
- Emotionally astute - Understand and effectively manage own emotions in stressful situations, understanding motivations and underlying reasons for own behaviour and that of others, including colleagues. Value diversity and difference in approaches to work, thinking and background, and treat people with sensitivity, compassion and warmth.
- Curious and innovative - Have an inquisitive and outward-looking nature, searching for new information to understand alternative sources of best practice and implement creative working methods. Committed to reflecting on how own role is undertaken, learning from success and mistakes, to continuously review and adapt approach.
- Collaborative - Work effectively with colleagues and external partners, sharing skills, knowledge and insights as appropriate to lead to the best possible results.
- Supportive & inspirational leading- Role model the police service’s values in day-to-day activities, providing inspiration and clarity to colleagues and stakeholders. Consider how the wider organisation and others are impacted, and help others to deliver their objectives effectively.
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