Blackboard VLE

University library and associated online learning materials.

Teaching spaces equipped with computer, projector, screen, white boards etc.

Live streaming/recording equipment/software.

None

1. Critically review and communicate the effectiveness of community engagement.

Reflection, Analysis, Communication

2. Demonstrate application of strategies to ensure personal wellbeing and resilience in relation to response policing.

Knowledge & understanding,

Application, Problem Solving

3. Evaluate lessons learned in applying operational strategies in the context of response policing and the challenges faced.

Learning, Enquiry

Assessment 1:

Production of a 2000-word essay (weighted at 100%), reflecting on operational deployment in the response, roads and community policing arena, with focus on the application of strategies utilised in responding to incidents, the impact of this activity on community engagement and the maintenance of personal wellbeing & resilience whilst working in such environments.

Learning outcomes 1 – 3.

This is a wide-ranging module that consolidates learning in relation to concepts and practicalities of being a police constable. It incorporates all the learning outcomes and indicative content from the College of Policing Degree Holder Entry Programme Curriculum for the following areas:

Response Policing: Section 1

Policing Communities: Section 1

Policing the Roads: Section 1

Appendix 1 details all the learning and indicative content covered in this module.



The below is a summary of what the content includes:

Response policing incidents: Including street gangs, knife crime & firearms incidents

Social and political change

Analysing and reporting in a response policing context

Challenges faced by response policing

Strategies to ensure personal wellbeing and resilience in relation to response policing

Community policing: intervention options

Evaluating community engagement strategies

Community policing: future challenges and opportunities

Evidence-base for the causes of serious roads policing incidents

Strategies for reducing road collisions

This module is taken in the 2nd year of the programme. Learning for this module will be based around students committing 200 hours of study this being split between 40 hours of direct contact with teaching staff and 160 hours of independent study and workplace learning.

It is taken as an alternative to the Advanced Operational Policing (Investigative) module to reflect learning needed for a chosen area of Specialist deployment upon completion of the Programme.

Students will be taught in a mixture of lectures and tutorials. The majority will be delivered face to face but there are a variety of synchronised sessions and on-line activities that take place away from a physical location.

Academic support (face to face and online) will be available throughout the module.

There will be regular formative knowledge checks and other sessions of formative assessment.