Partner Details
Police Now
Awards
Target Award
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
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