Our Professional Policing degree aims to develop students across a comprehensive range of policing professional standards, situations and contexts through learning and development enhancing the capability of the police constable to perform effectively in key specific areas of professional policing responsibility. Your learning and development will be specifically and directly relevant to professional performance and delivery in core areas of policing

BSc Professional Policing students will learn about the political and social processes of victimisation and criminalisation in light of criminological theories, and social diversity and inequality and their effects in relation to crime, victimisation and responses to crime and deviance.

You will be introduced to the complex social problems of crime, class, and victimisation and be taught the responses to crime and deviance, developing the skills to identify the strengths and weaknesses in the use of comparison in relation to crime, victimisation and responses to crime and deviance.

You will research various strategies and methods and evaluate the appropriateness of their use. You will also be introduced to criminal justice agency practices and developments in terms of changing values and relationships between individuals, groups, and public and private agencies in different locations.

This is a pre-join knowledge-based degree in professional policing to be achieved prior to formal recruitment to the police service.