Course Catalogue

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 enable students to be operationally effective police constables, with knowledge of Procedural Justice, Organisational Justice, Evidence Based Policing and Problem-Solving.

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 understanding of what makes a community and how to work collaboratively with community members to address offending

4. To provide students with the theoretical knowledge, understanding and practical skills necessary to achieve operational competence and complete the Graduate Diploma in Professional Policing Practice.

5. To contextualise the development of 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 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

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- Understand how community policing fits within the wider policing effort; LO 6-11

Stage 3- Know your team, how you fit in and where there is difference LO 12-16

Stage 4- Understand how you can make a difference in your community and why that’s important; LO 17-21

Stage 5- Get to know your community, its vulnerabilities and its crime/ASB impact; LO 22-25

Stage 6- Engage with the community to understand their needs/aims; LO 26-29

Stage 7- Identify and plan what it is that you are going to work on and with whom; LO 30-32

Stage 8- How to translate needs into police and collaborative actions; LO 33-36

Stage 9 Execute the plan; LO 37-40

Stage 10- Evaluating the impact and identify how the learning will be used in the future; LO 41-43

This programme will be delivered in collaboration with UK Police Forces. All learning content is designed by the appropriately qualified Police Now curriculum team and then delivered in collaboration with police forces. It will be a closed programme for new officers employed by UK Police Forces only. Knowledge, understanding, skills and other attributes will be taught by Police Now, supported by UK Police Forces, with students putting them into context and appreciating their relevance by application in the workplace.

Students will be encouraged to undertake independent study and this will form part of the teaching ethos, to encourage independent learning. In particular, work-based learning forms part of many modules, typically as work-based projects or other directed assignments.
The curriculum will be delivered in a variety of ways, including face-to-face, practical workshop sessions to contextualise skills, group work, reflection, and by a variety of blended methods. Lectures, seminars, workshops, presentations, directed study, and a variety of online provision will form some part of the Police Now taught programme. Taught (academic) elements will be supported by role-play and other workshop elements, work-sample exercises to support occupational learning. This will then be subject of self-reflection in the Occupational Competence Portfolio and form part of overall assessment. Blended methods will be utilised within Level 6 and the occupational skills, attitudes and behaviours will be assessed as part of the Occupational Competence Portfolio.

Assessment will be to University standards and include written submissions, group and individual presentations (in a structured and simple-complex way) and via an academic portfolio to assess group-work. UK Police Force assessors will be involved in the occupational competency assessment process by way of moderating; this will also act as an opportunity for CPD for Police staff.
Building on the academic skills, workplace and classroom inputs will ensure that all necessary workplace functions are taught and assessed prior to independent patrol. This will include use of IT and specialist equipment, required health and safety, first aid (to national standard) and personal safety training. Operationally competent police staff, supported by occupationally knowledgeable academic staff, will deliver the majority of this.

The College of Policing (PSRB) state, Evidence-based Research project at L6 will have a pass mark of 40%.
As blended learning will be a part of this programme, a support mechanism involving workplace mentors, development coaches, weekly programme and assessment surgeries will support the students’ 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.