BSc (Hons) Applied Management (Policing) | Degree Apprenticeship

The Personal and Management Development module provides learners with the foundation to their managerial growth throughout the programme through an evaluation of their current situation, structured establishment of objectives, and the development of strategies informed by theory for managing personal and professional growth throughout the course. Including the need to nurture individual physical, psychological and social well-being throughout and beyond their studies.

In the course of this module learners will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to evaluate what it means to be a manager in their policing context as a precursor to analysing their effectiveness as a police manager and their individual development needs. Further, learners will be supported in analysing their relevant professional framework(s) to enable their integration into development planning. Which in turn will be facilitated through learners reflecting upon how they learn most effectively and creating strategies to enable efficient time management and prioritisation throughout the programme.

Police culture has been subject to considerable public scrutiny in recent years as a result of high-profile incidents of police misconduct and subsequent investigations. This module enables learners to take a more detailed look at organisational and occupational cultures in policing bodies with a view to critically analysing their antecedents and consequences for the individual's team management. Further, the module will equip learners with the skills to evaluate culture and understand their position in respect of influencing its development. 

The module will achieve this through integrating theory from the domains of organisational behaviour and policing studies, with case studies and insight from policing practitioners. Seeking to empower learners to debate cultural issues and understand their position in relation to these. Whilst also enabling learners to reflect on their influence in the workplace and their ability to use this to support the achievement of strategic objectives through shaping culture.

This module aims to develop apprentices' understanding of how innovation functions in organisations.

Innovation drivers, strategy, process and culture will be explored to provide apprentices with the knowledge and skills required to act innovatively and support innovation across the workplace/key stakeholders.  This module will also develop apprentices’ understanding of how digital technologies impact organisations.

This module aims to introduce apprentices to the nature of organisational change and the strategies and techniques used to manage the change process.  It will focus on managing change across the law enforcement/public sector environment.  It will view the impact of change on individuals, teams and organisations/stakeholders. The module will consider how to effectively track and assess the impacts of change on the culture, performance and effectiveness of the organisation.

This module seeks to equip learners with the skills and knowledge to take a high level perspective upon the relationships within and surrounding their team, with a view to understanding how these enable achievement of organisational objectives. Further, it will encourage learners to evaluate these relationships and identify opportunities for enhancement, whilst also raising awareness of the increasing number of collaborative policing initiatives across the UK as a counterpoint to the traditional 43-force model.

The module also seeks to support learners in developing their skills in writing a business case as an essential skill in the majority of organisations, and to introduce a core analytical technique which may be equally applied to managing a team and identifying opportunities for the disruption of criminal networks - hence it having applicability to a wide range of policing functions.

Though a well established theoretical principle effective implementation of Evidence Based Policing remains limited across UK police forces. This module will enable learners to fully explore the subject in the context of their own policing environment through its application to specific problems impeding their achievement of KPI and organisational development. Further, the module will equip learners with the skills and knowledge to develop a more detailed understanding of policing problems so that the most appropriate and sustainable means of addressing these may be identified. Finally, learners will develop their abilities in operational debriefing, including identifying and promulgating lessons learned, and establishing actionable recommendations for future activity.

This module is intended to build upon pre-existing LCAPS and College of Policing provision relating to Evidence Based Policing through encouraging learners to approach challenges with a more inquisitive and analytical mind-set, with a view to deeply understand problems prior to developing potential solutions. Thus delivering policing activity which is more likely to achieve impact, which in turn may be critically assessed through the debriefing skills learned in this module.

This module aims to draw together learning from across the programme to enable apprentices to develop a work-based project focused on delivering significant value or improvement to the organisation.