Professional Policing
This master’s course will enhance and develop your management and leadership skills, whilst developing your knowledge and skills in contemporary areas of policing.
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Key Course Details
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Start Date
September
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Location
Online
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Campus Code
A
Fees
Home students
£10,250*
International students
£16,000*
- Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits.
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Start Date
September
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Location
Online
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Campus Code
A
Fees
Home students
£1,140*
- Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits.
Building on the success of our well-established Professional Policing degree and decades of providing police education, this course has been designed to meet the needs of those working within the policing sector.
DESIGNED FOR
Existing and future managers and leaders within UK law enforcement or the Civil Service.
Career Paths
- Police Senior Officers
- Police Staff Leaders
- National Crime Agency Leaders
- UK Border Force Leaders
- Civil Service Leaders
Skills taught
- Leadership concepts
- Safeguarding
- Complexity within investigation
- Digital awareness
- Partnership working
Course Highlights
Module Overview
Full Time students will complete 6 taught modules and a research paper during their 1-year study period. Part Time students will have two modules and the research paper to complete in their second year of learning.
Police Leadership and Organisational Behaviour
This module used a real case study relating to organisational change to allow students to consider perspectives such as staff impact, unintended consequences, finance, public confidence, training needs and governance arrangements.
Policing in the Digital World
This module examines in depth the current strategic documents that shape strategic policing within the digital landscape (Policing Vision 2025, Digital Policing Vision 2030 and the National Cyber Strategy 2022)
Critical Incident Management
This Module looks at Major incidents and critical incidents, public confidence, initial response and reflective practice. Students are required to analyse and critique the written material that has come from public enquiries to demonstrate sound decision-making skills.
Community Policing and Partnerships
This module examines the principles of engaging communities through the new Neighbourhood Policing Strategy and focusses upon problem solving, targeting activity and promoting the correct culture.
Applied Investigation and Public Protection
This module is heavily weighted toward risk assessment, multi-agency working and the implementation of vulnerability legislation across statutory agencies.
Critical Issues in Criminal Justice Policy
This module examines criminal justice within England and Wales and explores the justice arrangements such as appeals processes and how they embed themselves in Case Law as well as how legislation has developed from miscarriages of justice.
Evidenced Based Dissertation
This module is a written thesis on a policing topic.
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
Typical qualification requirements:
Minimum 2:2 degree. Applicants without an academic degree but who hold significant industry experience are encouraged to apply and may be eligible for Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) status.
International applications welcomed:
We welcome international applications with equivalent qualifications of our entry requirements. For more details related to your country of residence please view our dedicated country pages.
English language requirements
International applicants will need to have achieved an overall of IELTS 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component/TOEFL 72 overall and a minimum of 18 in reading, 17 in listening, 20 in speaking and 17 in writing or equivalent.
Equivalents can be located on our English Language pages.
If you have previously studied through the medium of English IELTS might not be required, please visit our country specific page for further details. If your country is not featured, please contact us.
If you do not meet the English entry criteria please visit our Pre-Sessional course pages.
Contextual offers
We may make you a lower offer based on a range of factors, including your background (where you live and the school or college that you attended for example), your experiences and individual circumstances (as a care leaver, for example). This is referred to as a contextual offer and we receive data from UCAS to support us in making these decisions.
USW prides itself on its student experience and we support our students to achieve their goals and become a successful graduate. This approach helps us to support students who have the potential to succeed and who may have faced barriers that make it more difficult to access university.
We're here to help
Whether you a have a question about your course, fees and funding, the application process or anything else, there are plenty of ways you can get in touch and we'd to talk to you. You can contact our friendly admissions team by phone, email or chat to us online.
Fees and Funding
£10,250
per year*£16,000
per year*£1,140
per 20 credits*Additional Costs
As a student of USW, you’ll have access to lots of free resources to support your study and learning, such as textbooks, publications, online journals, laptops, and plenty of remote-access resources. Whilst in most cases these resources are more than sufficient in supporting you with completing your course, additional costs, both obligatory and optional, may be required or requested for the likes of travel, memberships, experience days, stationery, printing, or equipment.
Course Highlights
How you’ll learn
This is a blended course with recorded materials accessed through the students virtual learning environment. The on-line delivery concept is supported by weekly real-time tutorials hosted on Microsoft Teams. These tutorials are pre-recorded for the convenience of students who are unable to make the allocated time-slot. All the modules have end point essay-based assessments and some of the modules have a mid-point assessment such as the production of an academic poster, a professional interview or presentation. The evidence-based dissertation consists of a 1,500-word research proposal and a 16,200-word thesis.
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Teaching staff
Course Lead: Alun Davies
Lecturers: Allison Turner, Roger Phillips, Peter Jones
Evidence based dissertation lead: Dan Welch
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Facilities
Students will be eligible to make use of the full range of facilities and support functions as if they were on-campus learners. This includes pastoral services, study skill support, on-line and on-campus library access (Including free delivery of materials for loan and the use of partner libraries across the country) and student discounts with selected retailers.
Through the virtual learning environment, students will have access to on-line IT office 365 applications, IT storage accounts and student email.
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