This document provides information about a BSc in Policing degree program. It outlines the changes happening in policing education, including the establishment of a qualifications framework. The 3-year degree program covers topics like police law, criminology, and criminal justice. Students complete core modules in each year as well as optional modules and placements. Graduation does not guarantee future employment as a police officer. The program developer, John Clay-Davies, provides contact information for prospective students who have additional questions.

1. Your
Future
Plan
BSc (Hons) Policing
John Clay-Davies

2. What’s happening in policing?
How the course works
Your future plan
What next? Q&A
Today…

3. For our prospective
students.
Who is this and what
happened to her?

4. What’s
happening in
policing?

5. "We want to move the [police]
service into a position where it
is prepared to meet the needs
and challenges of the future
and our aim is to give [police
officers and staff] access to the
knowledge and skills they need
to succeed.“
(Chief Constable Alex Marshall, College of Policing Chief Executive, 2015)

6. • Agreed standards for educational attainment across the
police service.
• Existing policing qualifications are not transferrable
• Inconsistency across forces –different training standards and
preparation for roles
• Out of kilter with other professions –in partnership settings
police work within a largely graduate environment –lack of
parity with other professionals

9. • Establish a qualifications framework for policing so that
individuals can gain recognition that has meaning and
credibility. – Policing Education and Qualifications Framework
(PEQF)
• Provide opportunities for existing officers and staff to gain
accredited and publicly recognised qualifications for their
existing skills, if they wish to do so.
• Develop three entry routes for new constables
• undergraduate degree in policing
• graduate conversion programme
• higher level apprenticeships

11. The course is being designed to prepare graduates
for entry to careers such as:
Aimed at:
Police officer
Police staff
UK Border Force
Courts system
Prison service
A range of roles with local authorities or
third sector organisations working in areas
such as social housing, trading standards,
victim support or substance abuse

12. Your Future
Plan
Employability Strategy

13. • Your future Plan
• Developed over your 3 years
• Explore, Decide, Achieve
• Work experience
• Skills development
• Career management
Employment and the future

14. • Dedicated Personal Tutor
throughout your degree
• Academic Achievement Team
• Help Zone
Personal development
and support

15. How the
Course
works

16. 1st year:
Set modules as the foundation of
your degree
• PPD for Policing Students (emphasis
on Your Future Plan – PPD – Develop Transferable Skills - 20hr
volunteer placement)
• Police Law and Community (EDHR,
CKP part 1)
• Understanding Criminology
• Criminal Justice: From Crime
Scene to Court

17. 2nd year:
Core modules and a choice of
optional modules to pursue your
interests
• Policing and Police Powers (Police
history, police powers, CKP part 2)
• CPD for Policing Students (90hrs
minimum work placement– Special Constable*)
• Politics of Policing (Public Confidence and
Police Accountability)
• Data Collection and Data
Analysis

18. 3rd year:
Wide choice of modules and a chance
to specialise your degree
One-to-one supervision for your
evidence-based research project
• Evidence-based research
assessment (Apprenticeship End-Point Assessment)
• Critical and Major Incident
Management
• Police Professionalism (Ethics, Integrity,
Leadership, Organizational Behaviour)
• Strategic Policing (Applied Performance
Management)

19. Applications:
Via UCAS (Feb 2017)
Tariff points: 104
• BCC at A level
• MMM at BTEC
Or a combination of
qualifications.

20. Really important:
Acceptance as a Special Constable is not
guaranteed and is dependent on a successful
evidence-based application, interview, fitness
test, medical and vetting procedure.
Potential students are strongly advised to take
the College of Policing’s Pre-Application
Questionnaire available at: www.ncalt.com/pre-
join/index.html before enrolling for this course.
Graduation from this course DOES NOT
guarantee future employment as a police
officer.

21. What next?

22. For further updates follow
@BscPolicing
Live on UCAS:
February 2017
DOES NOT appear in
latest prospectus

23. A copy of this presentation
is available on
Slideshare
http://www.slideshare.net/BScPolicing
/bsc-hons-policing-66555507

24. Contact Information
BSc Policing Programme Developer:
John Clay-Davies
BA(Hons), MBA, PGCAP, FHEA, FinstLM
jdaviesclay@glos.ac.uk
s2112592@glos.ac.uk
@BscPolicing

25. So what about…..?

26. Paris Brown
Britain’s first Youth Police and Crime
Commissioner (Kent)
JPCC Paris Brown pictured with Ann Barnes, PCC Kent

28. Beware of Social Media!!

29. Thank you !