POL6002 - Advanced Professional Practice

Objectives:

On successful completion of the module, apprentices will be able to:

1 - Précis specific challenges and / or complexities within response, community and investigator roles and how this affects them in their role;
2 - Practise communication strategies used in policing and the part that both the media and social media has within those; and,
3 - Evaluate individual skills and behaviours within a professional discussion to inform their future practice.

Content:

Students will have chosen their police specialism at this stage and so will have opportunity to attend teaching around either response policing, community policing or investigative policing.

Response Policing:
In this pathway students will learn about specific challenges faced by response officers in more complex response situations and contexts; key social, political and strategic drivers impacting upon contemporary response policing; and strategies for how those involved in response policing can remain effective in an increasingly challenging environment.

Community Policing:
In this pathway students will learn about a range of problem-solving approaches that can be applied to reduce community tension and promote community cohesion; key emerging issues, problems or concerns faced by the community; and the impact of potential challenges to community policing and the future role of the community constable.

Investigative Policing:
In this pathway students will learn the knowledge and skills required to conduct complex investigations; the intricacies associated with victim and witness care during a complex investigation; professional considerations relevant to specific complex investigations; complex victim/ witness and suspect interviewing; liaising with specialists in relation to complex live (or cold) cases; and how to ensure the well-being and resilience of the investigative team and self during a complex investigation.



In addition, all students will learn the principles and processes of an effective communication strategy and how to use social media as a means of informing and engaging with the community and promoting policing initiatives.

This module will encourage students to reflect on where knowledge associated with British Values, Prevent, Healthy Relationships and Safeguarding have been developed.

English language, and where appropriate maths skills, will be developed through this module. The skills associated with the above subjects are developed to enable students to understand the knowledge and skills required to conduct complex investigations; the intricacies associated with victim and witness care during a complex investigation; professional considerations relevant to specific complex investigations; complex victim/ witness and suspect interviewing; liaising with specialists in relation to complex live (or cold) cases; and how to ensure the well-being and resilience of the investigative team and self during a complex investigation.

Digital skills will be developed through the utilisation of online resources such as the University's VLE, e-Portfolio system and Leeds Trinity University Library system.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Utilising the pre live post model, students will have preparation for the taught element, with a focused lecture-based input and discussion, allowing for the development and exploration of ideas. This will be followed by additional self-directed learning to enhance their initial teaching.

Lectures (Communication content)
Hours: 36
Intended Group Size: Cohort

Guided independent study
Hours: 164

Further details relating to assessment
Students are required to give a press conference briefing, followed by a question and answer session, equating to 20 minutes in total.

Formative assessment is captured through Q&A with tutors and peers throughout the module to ensure learning and understanding of the topics covered and identify and gaps or trends. Decision making and problem-solving activity allows for students to apply their knowledge practically, allowing for both feedback and feed-forward opportunities to develop student’s confidence and ability in applying their learning within a controlled learning environment.

Assessment Brief and Module Handbook can both be located in Moodle.

Please note that all assessments must be passed (at 40 for numerical marks) as a requirement of the College of Policing.

Assessment:

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Kevin Pickles
Level - 6
Credit Value - 20
Pre-Requisites - NOT APPLICABLE
Semester(s) Offered - 6AP

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