MSc Applied Policing Practice

Overview

This course will develop your knowledge, leadership and management skills critical to the success of any police reform and local organisational change programme.

The demand on the police service is becoming increasingly more complex and the issues involved require a wider knowledge base and new skill sets to address them effectively. The MSc in Applied Policing Practice is suitable for police officers and staff of all ranks and roles in related occupation.

It incorporates new postgraduate ‘policing themes’ that can be adapted to deliver the most contemporaneous issues in crime, policing and the criminal justice system and responds to new reforms or challenges that may confront the police/criminal justice system in the future.

The MSc in Applied Policing Practice is offered to police officers and staff of all ranks and roles in related e demand on the police service is becoming increasingly more complex and the issues involved require a wider knowledge base and new skill sets to address them effectively. This programme supports students in developing their knowledge and their research interests.

How you’ll be assessed

The assessment pattern will vary from module to module. However, in general terms you may be required for example, to submit written assignments, do presentations, conduct a small piece of local research, write reflexive pieces on current practice and so on. If you complete the full MSc programme you will also be expected to complete a final dissertation at the end of year two.

If you chose to complete the other Postgraduate Certificate option you will be required to complete one module plus the research module depending on which pathway you prefer and all three first year modules for the Postgraduate Diploma option.