Program Overview

Professional Policing (with Foundation Year) BSc (Hons)

Overview

This degree equips you with the knowledge, skills, and professional understanding needed to serve and protect communities through effective, evidence-based policing. Based on the National Policing Curriculum, it prepares you for careers across the police service, military police, and wider criminal justice sector. With access to first-class facilities and taught by experts with real-world policing experience, you’ll graduate ready to take the next step in your policing journey. The degree has a currency of five years following graduation for recruitment into policing.

Course Structure

Foundation Year Core Modules

• Discovering the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law
• Investigating Society and Culture: The Case of Crime
• Your Foundation Year Project
• Your Toolkit for University Success

Year 1 Core Modules

• Foundations of Law
• Introduction to Digital Investigation
• Introduction to Professional Policing
• Policing and the Community
• Thinking about Crime
• Understanding the Policing Environment

Year 2 Core Modules

• Counter-Terrorism in Context
• Investigation in Practice
• Law and Procedure
• Physical Evidence and Investigation
• Professional Policing in Practice
• Research Skills for Police Practitioners

Final-Year Core Modules

• Defendants and Witnesses in the Criminal Justice System
• Ethics, Integrity, and Contemporary Issues
• From Report to Court
• Policing Research Project
• Themes in Professional Policing

How You Learn

Modules are taught using a broad range of learning opportunities, including lectures, seminars, workshops, case studies, peer group discussions, independent study, e-learning, and online materials, individual and group tutorials, guest speakers, and practical sessions.

How You Are Assessed

The programme is assessed through a range of formative and summative methods in oral, written, and alternative formats. These comprise traditional assessment methods, including essays, reports, reflective analysis, multiple-choice questions, practical tasks, presentations, and negotiated research and conference-style dissemination of findings.

Entry Requirements

A typical offer is 32-64 tariff points from at least two A levels, T level, or equivalent, and GCSE grade 4 (grade C) or equivalent in English.

Employability

You will have the required knowledge and understanding to apply to be employed as a police officer, police staff (such as civilian investigators, detention officers), or within the military police.

Information for International Applicants

International applicants can find out what qualifications they need by visiting the university’s website.

Fees

• UK Applicants: £9,535 a year (full-time), £5,760 (foundation year)
• International Applicants: £17,000 a year (full-time)

Other Course Routes

• Full-time: 4 years, UCAS code L404 BSc/PPFY
• Part-time: Not available

Choose Teesside

• iPad: Eligible students receive an iPad, keyboard, and up to £300 credit for learning resources.
• Accommodation: Affordable on-campus accommodation from £100 a week.
• Campus: Study in a town-centre campus with £280m of recent investment.
• Adobe: Study at Europe’s first Adobe Creative Campus and develop your creative and digital skills.