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Police Now

Awards

Target Award

Award Description:Graduate Diploma - GD

Accreditation

College of Policing

Programme Offerings

Part-Time

DL-PNW-MAR

Educational Aims of the Course

This document has been written with due reference to the College of Policing DHEP National Curriculum and Specification. All National Curriculum learning outcomes and indicative content have been mapped against the programme.

1. To provide students with the theoretical knowledge, understanding and practical skills necessary to achieve operational competence, professionalising investigation Level 2 status and complete the Graduate Diploma in Professional Policing Practice.

2. To enable students to develop an understanding of policing, its position in the social, political and cultural environment and its place within the wider context of criminal justice and legislation.

3. To develop a student's understanding of what makes a community and how to work collaboratively with community members, specialists and external agencies to address offending and reduce harm.

4. To develop an understanding of how investigations can effectively manage risk and reduce vulnerability and harm within communities.

5. To appreciate and put into effect a range of interpersonal and transferable graduate skills and knowledge developed by students during the programme.

6. To build the knowledge and practical skills for students to develop their leadership and role-modelling potential alongside policing colleagues, and community members.

7. To develop critical thinking and reflective practice within ethical and professional boundaries providing a critical academic understanding of policy, practices, and ethical values.

8. Students will build academic knowledge and skills to develop their understanding and application of Evidence Based Practice and in turn, develop themselves as professional policing practitioners.

9. To provide students with knowledge and skills to utilise a range of analytical, research and planning methodologies critically, allowing them to undertake ethically sound, professional and effective policing interventions which reduce crime, manage risk & vulnerability and increase confidence in policing.

10. Students will develop influencing and presentation skills which will allow them to contribute to policy and practice development in policing.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Relate the importance of equality and diversity, ethics and values within a policing environment.
2.
Recognise how unconscious bias and stereotyping can impact upon individual and group decision-making.
3.
Employ self-management techniques and the ability to continue learning, display self-awareness and sensitivity to diversity in people and different situations.
4.
Engage the skill of learning from experience and self-reflection, this will be critical in the workplace.
5.
Identify how personal values can determine how an individual can develop their professional progress.
6.
Debate issues around aspects of policing, including the management of intelligence, investigative practises, treatment of offenders and public protection and how these engage in the wider criminal justice system.
7.
Identify how an investigator engages with other agencies in the wider criminal justice system.
8.
Identify the roles and functions of crime investigators and other law enforcement agencies.
9.
Relate the social and historical development of policing, its structures and governance, alongside new and emerging forms of policing in line with the College of Policing’s professionalising of the service.
10.
Analyse the governance and structures within policing and the new and emerging forms of policing.
11.
Analyse the practical application of legislation within an operational context.
12.
Evaluate current policy and procedures and the impact they have within operational policing.
13.
Demonstrate the ability of working across disciplines and working well with others.
14.
Demonstrate a clear understanding of how legitimacy and procedural justice impact upon relationships in policing.
15.
Analyse the role that police and occupational culture has upon policing activities and decision-making.
16.
Demonstrate an understanding of how individuals and communities are vulnerable and the importance of recognising risk in a variety of crime settings.
17.
Recognise how gender based violence is a violation of human rights and can take numerous forms all of which lead to harm.
18.
Demonstrate an understanding of how victims and witnesses are supported in complex investigations.
19.
Distinguish effective policing practices and policies that tackle vulnerability and risk.
20.
Demonstrate a fundamental understanding of criminological theories around offending and crime.
21.
Model theoretical concepts of policing in the context of an operational setting.
22.
Describe how various investigative methodologies can be utilised in bringing offenders to justice.
23.
Utilise and adapt an evidence-based approach to enhance professional practice to tackle crime and offending.
24.
Demonstrate an understanding of offender desistence, offender management and control utilised across the criminal justice system.
25.
Explain how the police operate in partnership with other organisations and the wider community.
26.
Practice anti-discriminatory behaviour in all aspects of their police work, understanding the importance of emotional intelligence in all interactions with diverse groups, victims and witnesses.
27.
Measure effective police engagement in partnership approaches around safeguarding communities.
28.
Practice engagement techniques to enhance collaboration and partnership working at a community level.
29.
Demonstrate an understanding of the role that social capital and collective efficacy plays in safeguarding communities.
30.
Organise and complete appropriate collection and analysis of data and information from a range of accessible sources in an ethical, sympathetic and professional manner.
31.
Demonstrate an understanding of how intelligence and intelligence products support crime investigations.
32.
Practice the processes for effective tasking and briefing to support investigations.
33.
Appraise the underpinning principles, ethics and values of policing within an operational context.
34.
Distinguish relevant police theory, policy, procedure and practice through their impact on the community.
35.
Realise the importance and ubiquity of standards and ethics within all aspects of the policing process. How ethical behaviour is fundamental to understanding legal principles, social divisions and diversity relevant to criminal justice sector.
36.
Utilise the knowledge and understanding gained to reduce crime and risk in communities through effective partnership working and problem solving.
37.
Demonstrate an understanding of how to work effectively with specialist investigators and agencies.
38.
Evidence an ability to plan work and manage time, reflect on own strengths, limitations and performance, taking responsibility for setting targets and implementing plans for independent and collaborative working and personal and professional development.
39.
Model professional discipline and preservation of the highest standards in line with the College of Policing Strategic Intent.
40.
Recognise how communication plays a critical part in securing community confidence and co-operation.
41.
Critically review contemporary theories and current research in investigation and offender management.
42.
Apply the knowledge gained to evidence Operational Competence in investigation.
43.
Utilise the range of differing academic research techniques and Evidence Based Policing to research and apply this learning in developing the role of the investigator.
44.
Problem solve, be innovative and creative in the approach to learning and work with an ability to communicate ideas and arguments effectively to others both orally and in writing.
45.
Construct evidence-based arguments that challenge current thinking and practice where appropriate and advance the professionalising agenda.

Teaching, Learning and Assessment

The methods used to enable outcomes to be achieved and demonstrated are as follows:

The learning outcomes above are achieved through the following 10 Development Stages

Stage 1: Knowing Yourself; LO 1-5

Stage 2: Building the skills of a Detective LO; 6-8

Stage 3: Know your team, how investigation fits with policing and where there is difference; LO 9-15

Stage 4: Identify & understand vulnerability and harm within communities - and how investigation can reduce risks; LO 16-19

Stage 5: Preventing crime and harm through problem-solving and the management of offenders and perpetrators; LO 20-24

Stage 6: Woking collaboratively and in Multi-agency settings to protect the most vulnerable and build trust in policing; LO 25-29

Stage 7: Understand how information and intelligence is built, handled and used to reduce threats; LO 30-32

Stage 8: Identifying the most significant threats to safety in communities and confidently know the role investigation plays; LO 33-37

Stage 9: Evaluate your own impact - what are your strength and skills as an investigator; LO 38-40

Stage 10: Innovate to protect those at greatest risk - identify and design how investigation should develop; LO 41-45

Opportunities for work related learning

The Graduate Diploma will be a closed client group programme. Each of the students will be employed by a UK Police Force and on successful completion of the degree and the assessment of full operational competence, will continue their employment as a Police Constable, confirmed in rank. Courses are developed to enhance the work-related learning of the students whilst away from the academic setting. Whilst in the workplace the students will have police force tutors and Syndicate Leads to support their learning whilst Police Now will appoint Performance and Development Coaches.


The police service will provide suitably qualified Mentors and Assessors during the accompanied patrol phase. Those mentors and individual supervisors will support learning in the workplace, they will be trained in the role for support in the workplace phase(s). Once a course is procured, LJMU will also provide support and continuous professional development opportunities for all staff involved in the delivery and support of the Graduate Diploma. Additionally, course academic tutors will be available to students for support in relation to academic issues. Each of the police assessors will have appropriate training in force, and will hold the current and appropriate assessment qualification.


Academic Tutors will also provide support during the workplace phases, by way of tutorials that may be delivered in a face-to-face or a blended fashion. Weekly academic support surgeries will be available throughout the academic year to support learners in the assessment periods. Police Organisation Tutor constables and assessors will only provide support and guidance on occupational issues, they will not be involved in the TLA of the LJMU credit.

Programme Structure

Programme Structure Description

The Graduate Diploma will be a closed client programme. Students (Degree Holders) will become substantive officers on successful completion of the Graduate Diploma in Professional Policing Practice. The core curriculum is delivered by Police Now. Students will be required to complete in the region of 20 hours study in their … For more content click the Read More button below. Students must achieve Full Occupational Competency as assessed by independent police assessors before the Graduate Diploma can be awarded. Students subject to disciplinary police regulation 12/13, resulting in discharge of a probationer will be removed from the programme of study. Likewise, breaches of University regulations will be referred back to the employer. Students must successfully complete all modules in Year 1 and achieve IPS in order to progress to Year 2.

Structure

Level 6

Approved variance from Academic Framework Regulations

All assessed components on each module must to be successfully passed for credit to be released. Approved- 16.12.2022

Entry Requirements

Undergraduate degree

HECoS Code(s)

(CAH15-01) sociology, social policy and anthropology