Guidance for Higher Education and Recognised Qualification Providers
This guidance document is designed to be a flexible resource to help you find out what you need to know.
Pick out the sections with particular relevance to you and what you need to know.
College of Policing RPL Process
The Recognition of Prior Experience and Learning (RPL) is a process that gives police officers and staff academic credits for their experience and the courses they may have completed during their service. The College is taking the broadest approach to RPL to include certificated learning as well as experiential learning.
The College has created an indicative framework of credits to standardise the process, and an online tool to assist officers and staff in finding courses they might want to study.
Use the links below to help you find out more about what you need to know.
How do officers and staff apply?
How do we get included in the directory of the online tool?
How it could work
How will officers and staff gain credits for their previous learning and experience?
How will this benefit us as an HEI?
How will this impact on our existing RPL process?
What does the online tool do?
Information about the College of Policing
Find out more about who the College of Policing is and why they have introduced the Recognition of Prior Experience and Learning.
- What is the College of Policing?
- Why is the College of Policing doing this?
- Why are academic qualifications being promoted in policing?
Considerations for supporting officers and staff completing academic studies
Find out about some of the considerations you should have when teaching officers and staff
- What do we need to consider when providing education to operational officers and staff?
- What will officers and staff expect from us?
- What might a force expect of us?
- What support can we offer?