POL6013 - Advanced Investigations

Objectives:

Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate the Learning and Employability outcomes for the relevant level of study. Level Learning Outcomes are embedded in the assessment task(s) at that level. This enables a more integrated view of overall student performance at each level.

Content:

This module builds on knowledge from level 4 & 5 of the criminal investigation process and is designed to provide students with further skills in the field of criminal investigation and provide a strategic framework for understanding the investigative process. Students will be required to distinguish between diverse types of crime and why this is important and will continue to analyse diverse types of evidence to understand the importance of effective evidence management and the implications of not following policy and procedure. Complex live and cold cases will form a large part of this module, with students analysing the resources required to investigate such cases. Students will consider the challenges that victims and witnesses face during a complex investigation and the investigative response to these challenges.

This module builds on the key principles of criminal investigation and is underpinned by Authorised Professional Practice (APP), appropriate legislation and PIP2 principles. Students will develop an understanding of the key terminology and be prepared for the standards of the National Investigators Examination (NIE). Students will have the opportunity to engage with a range of case studies in the module, will examine the integration of historical, empirical, and theoretical approaches to issues in the evidence gathering and criminal investigation process.

This module builds on the interview and questioning process, with a view to understanding behaviours and dynamics within an interview for a complex investigation.

Students will consider the evaluation of intelligence within the national intelligence model and will evaluate and reflect upon how information and intelligence is used to progress a given policing operation. They will consolidate their understanding, and use of the National Decision Model (NDM).

Learning and Teaching Information:

Lectures
Hours: 40
Intended Group Size: 25-60



Further Details Relating to Assessment

Component 1: Exam: Students will undertake a past NIE paper consisting of 120 questions which will be answered in 90 minutes, this will replicate exactly the standard and requirement of the PIP2 process and prepare students to take the examination should they wish to become PIP2 qualified as a graduate.

Component 2: Group Presentation: Students will conduct an SIO briefing, using a serious and complex crime investigation which they have studied within the module. They will present their briefing to partners and stakeholders in the investigative process, and rationale their evidence and decision making, proposing actions to be taken.

Please note that for Professional Policing BA (Hons) ONLY, the module must be passed (minimum 40) as a requirement of the College of Policing and cannot be condoned for marginal failure.

Assessment:

Fact File

Module Coordinator - PRS_CODE=
Level - 6
Credit Value - 30
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered -

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