Program Overview
The MSc in Policing program provides a transformative learning experience that equips students with the knowledge, skills, and competencies to respond strategically to modern policing challenges. The program offers various pathways, including Policing, International Policing, Investigating Serious Crime, and Leadership and Management, allowing students to specialize in specific areas of policing. By focusing on work within diverse communities and ethical policing practices, the program prepares graduates for leadership roles in policing, community safety, and criminal justice.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
Learn to be strategic as you respond to the modern challenges of policing with MSc in Policing. This course provides you with a transformative learning experience that responds to the changing needs of society. You can study MSc Policing or choose to specialise in the following pathways: MSc Policing, MSc Policing (International Policing), MSc Policing (Investigating Serious Crime), MSc Policing (Leadership and Management), MSc Police Leadership and Management - Senior Leaders Apprenticeship. All pathways will challenge you to stretch your strategic and critical thinking and to gain the knowledge, skills and competencies to create innovative and sophisticated responses. You will learn to deal with threats such as: cybercrime, violence against women and girls, terrorism, organised crime, and other emerging risks to public protection.
Outline:
This policing degree will focus on work within diverse and complex communities. The core course content prepares you for: community working, valuing diversity, championing inclusion, ensuring equality, safeguarding, following ethical policing practice. The course also offers you the flexibility to specialise in one of the pathways below:
- MSc Policing: This pathway focuses on the criminal and forensic side of policing and is intended for: police officers considering progressing their careers into these specialist areas, individuals from community safety and policing fields who wish to develop into specialist roles, those involved in advanced study of policing for instance those who have completed the undergraduate degree in policing and wish to take their learning further.
- MSc Policing (International Policing): This pathway provides a transformative learning experience that responds to the changing needs of policing from an international perspective. The MSc in International Policing is intended for: police officers considering progressing their careers into specialisms or for promotion and others with an interest in studying policing as an academic or researcher, individuals from community safety and policing fields who wish to develop into specialist roles, those involved in advanced study of policing for instance those who have completed the undergraduate degree in policing and wish to take their learning further.
- MSc Policing (Leadership and Management): This pathway will enable you to use a range of techniques and research methods in order to improve and enhance professional policing practice. This pathway is aimed at those in senior leadership roles who want to improve their capability as police leaders. You will develop the ability to: deal with complex issues within policing, both systematic and creative, make sound evidence-based judgements and communicate their conclusions clearly to diverse audiences, demonstrate self-direction and innovative approaches to solving problems, act autonomously in planning and implementing tasks at a Superintendent, strategic or equivalent level.
- MSc Policing (Investigating Serious Crime): This pathway will help you gain insight into the area of serious crime and enhance your crime-solving skills. You will undertake a learning experience that covers key areas of the National Policing Curriculum (NPC), and integrates the Policing Education Qualifications Framework (PEQF) and the Chartered Manager standard. You will critically examine the issues of investigating serious crime considering how technological, societal and criminal challenges are creating a new context to police legitimacy and effectiveness. You will be able to use a range of techniques and research methods in order to improve and enhance your professional policing practice. This degree course will enable you to develop the skills and capabilities to lead and manage complex operations, teams and organisations in order to achieve effective and ethical policing outcomes.
Level 7
You will need to complete the listed compulsory modules, as well as pick ONE course pathway. The chosen pathway will have additional optional modules you will need to complete.
- MSc Policing
- Criminal Investigations
- Police Leadership and Management
- Criminal and Forensic Psychology
- MSc Policing (International Policing)
- International Policing
- MSc Policing (Investigating Serious Crime)
- Criminal Investigations
- MSc Policing (Leadership and Management)
- Police Leadership and Management
- MSc Police Leadership and Management - Senior Leaders Apprenticeship
- Police Leadership and Management
- End Point Assessment
Compulsory modules:
- Evidence Based Approaches to Policing:
- Contemporary Policing: Legitimacy and Performance:
- Dissertation: The module builds on content covered in ‘Research Methods’ and focuses on preparing you to undertake a major research project in the area of policing. You will learn a number of research methods skills workshops to deepen your knowledge of research methodologies relevant to the topic of the research, the relationship between theory and research, data collection techniques and their limitations, evaluation and writing style conventions consistent with reporting research.
- Research Methods: The aims of the module are to provide advanced training in how to conduct research in the context of policing and to prepare you for the completion of a dissertation. The module will also: develop competence in research design, data collection and analysis, and writing up a research proposal, provide advanced training in a range of practical research skills, techniques and designs, allow you to gain an understanding of how to evaluate and select appropriate evidence from a range of electronic databases, foster your self-direction and originality in tackling and solving research problems, and their ability to act autonomously in planning and implementing a programme of research at Masters Level, integrate research methodology and data analysis with the theoretical, applied and professional topics addressed throughout the MSc Policing.
Careers:
Graduates of this programme will be well placed to take on specialist or leadership roles in: policing, community safety, criminal justice, research into police and society. It will be particularly relevant for anyone considering a role within police education.
Other:
- The course is designed to equip students with the knowledge, skills and competencies to create innovative and sophisticated responses to the challenges of policing.
- The course focuses on work within diverse and complex communities.
- Students will gain experience in ethical policing practice.
- The course is aligned with the National Policing Curriculum (NPC) and the Policing Education Qualifications Framework (PEQF).
UK £9,750 per year Nationality International UK International £17,250 per year
