How is this going to benefit your force?

Gaining academic qualifications can be hugely beneficial for both individuals and the force they belong to:

• Qualifications may be aimed at filling specific knowledge gaps which exist within your force or may offer a broader understanding of the increasingly complex nature of policing:
  • Crime – terrorism, violence, vulnerability, cyber etc
  • Non Crime – mental health, missing persons etc
  • Organisational Challenges – technology, estate, fleet etc.
• It will help accelerate the professionalisation of the workforce in line with the policing vision of 2025
• It recognises, values and motivates the existing workforce by providing the mechanism to complete externally recognised qualifications that have meaning, credibility and transferability within and beyond policing
• It will help to embed the use of evidence based policing in day to day work
• It begins to address the leadership gap
• It promotes the use of autonomous decision making based on informed, intelligent analysis of the evidence