DC6008 - Issues in Policing Policy (PCDA)

What will I learn on this module?

This module will consider the match (or mismatch) between government policy on policing (and other social issues) and the most common difficulties experienced by police officers and the public. It will consider each of the five key areas of policing. The learning on this module is informed by the College of Policing PCDA Curriculum. This is as follows:

CORE NATIONAL

Response Policing year 3 1.1-2.2

Information, Intelligence and Evidence Year 3 2.1

Conducting investigations 1.1-3.1

CORE LOCAL

Community Policing and Partnership Working 6.1, 9.1

Conducting Investigations 1.1

How will I learn on this module?

You will attend classroom-based lectures, seminars, and workshops that will enhance your knowledge and understanding of the module themes. You will be supported to choose an area of policing to conduct your presentation on and to prepare to answer a question on in the open book exam.

How will I be supported academically on this module?

You will be supported on this module by tutors through interactive lectures and seminars with regular opportunities for question and answer sessions. In addition, you will be able to access one-to-one support from the module tutor and police colleagues. You will be able to arrange supervision session via email or telephone.

What will I be expected to read on this module?

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. The reading list for this module can be found at: http://readinglists.northumbria.ac.uk
(Reading List service online guide for academic staff this containing contact details for the Reading List team – http://library.northumbria.ac.uk/readinglists)

What will I be expected to achieve?

Knowledge & Understanding (K&U):

1. Demonstrate advanced levels of knowledge and understanding around policing policy.

2. Demonstrate advanced levels of knowledge and understanding around practical issues in one of the five key areas of policing.

Intellectual/Professional skills & abilities (IPSA):

3. Develop an ability to critically reflect on practice-based professional learning evidencing key learning points in improving professional performance and/or professional development.

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):

4. Take responsibility for independent learning and enquiry to make the links between policy and practice.
5. Demonstrate complex thinking around police knowledge and practice, including the ability to contextualise this in an evidence-based policing framework.

How will I be assessed?

Component One: 3 hour open book exam, with one compulsory question and one question where there is a choice to write about any f the five key areas of policing.

You will undertake more advanced practice based learning in the workplace across five principal areas of professional practice to acquire higher-level operational knowledge and skills in the following five key areas: response policing; policing communities; policing the roads; information and intelligence; and conducting investigations.

Pre-requisite(s)

N/A

Co-requisite(s)

N/A

Module abstract

This module will consider the match (or mismatch) between government policy on policing (and other social issues) and the most common difficulties experienced by police officers and the public. It will consider each of the five key areas of policing. Student officers will be supported to select the area in which they wish to specialise and then to prepare and deliver a presentation on this area, before selecting a question in the open book exam.

Course info

Credits 40

Level of Study Undergraduate

Mode of Study 30 months Full Time

Location City Campus, Northumbria University

City Newcastle

Start September 2025 or March 2026

Fee Information

Module Information

Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship | Durham Constabulary

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Contact time is subject to increase or decrease in line with possible restrictions imposed by the government or the University in the interest of maintaining the health and safety and wellbeing of students, staff, and visitors if this is deemed necessary in future.

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