Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

Justice Studies

Learning Methods

Lecture

Seminar

Workshop

Module Offerings

6201PSDA-APR-MTP

6201PSDA-JAN-MTP

6201PSDA-SEP-MTP

6201PSDA-SEP_NS-MTP

Aims

This module will require students to recognise and critically evaluate the overall strategic context of policing and relevant national policing strategies. Investigating the current practice of “professionalising the police service”, and examining the role, played by the College of Policing in attempting to professionalise policing. The module will explore the uses of social media as a means of informing and engaging with the community, and promoting policing initiatives. Investigating the key considerations when using social media in a professional policing context.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Define and appraise the overall strategic context of policing and the relevant national policing strategies.
2.
Reconstruct the term “profession” and relate the way it is now being applied to policing. Examine and interpret the role of the College of Policing in professionalising policing in the 21 century.
3.
Assess the principles and processes of an effective communication strategy and interpret how to deal effectively with the media in a policing context.
4.
Evaluate and appraise the uses of social media as a means of informing and engaging with the community, and in promoting policing initiatives.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:
Strategic Policing. The professionalisation of the police service. Social media, the Police and the Community. The role of the Police press office/corporate communications. Effective engagement with the media.
Module Overview:
This module will require you to recognise and critically evaluate the overall strategic context of policing and relevant national policing strategies. You will investigate the current practice of "professionalising the police service" and examine the role played by the College of Policing in attempting to professionalise policing. The module will explore the uses of social media as a means of informing and engaging with the community and promoting policing initiatives.
Additional Information:
Lectures and other activities will provide the students with information to then enable them to practically apply the knowledge acquired, within the tasks and experiences incorporated into the workshops. Discussions and activities such as critically evaluate the overall strategic context of policing and relevant national policing strategies. Or examining the principles and processes of an effective communication strategy, identifying how to disseminate information, and deal effectively with the media in a policing context.

 

All assessed components on this module must be successfully passed for credit to be released. 

Assessments

Centralised Exam