Policing BA Honours

Program Overview

Policing BA Honours

Overview

Our Policing BA course is designed to equip you for a future career as a police officer or police staff. The course meets the benchmarking standards of the College of Policing, allowing you progress onto the degree holder entry programme. We’ll give you the tools to put your policing ambitions into practice using detailed case studies from crime scene investigation through to processing suspects and court prosecutions, while also uniquely considering the problems and challenges facing contemporary policing in Britain.

Course Structure

Our core modules address the key skills and knowledge which all police officers need to understand and succeed in the modern world. Other optional modules allow you to construct a specialist ‘stream’ of personal interest to you; focusing on diversity and inclusion or countering terrorism, as an example.

Year 1

• Cinematic Justice
• Criminal Justice: Crime and Punishment
• Criminal Law and Police Powers
• Genealogy of Modern Policing
• Guided Project
• Introduction to Rights and the Law
• Investigation and Evidence
• Islamic Law in Context
• Law and Social Media
• Public Law
• Race and the Law

Year 2

• Advanced Investigation and Evidence
• Child Protection Law and Policy
• Community Building for Policing
• Criminology and the Law
• European Criminal Law
• Introduction to Human Rights Law
• Law and Mental Health
• Law and Social Justice
• Managing People
• Private Law
• Professional Practice: Project
• Public Protection and Vulnerability
• Women in Policing

Year Abroad

You can spend an additional year of study abroad at our partner institutions around the world. You'll study for 120 additional credits through the two Law Study Abroad modules.

Year 3

Your final year will provide you with the opportunity to choose whether to align your learning thematically with the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) in preparation for professional practice, or choose the professional research project pathway as your core, where you can do an extended research project in Policing or one of the rest research areas linked with the research centres in the Law School.

• Advanced Criminal Law
• Business Law
• Countering Terrorism
• Family Law and Family Justice
• Human Rights: Contexts and Controversies
• International Criminal Justice: Mass atrocity Crimes
• Professional Legal Practice: Knowledge, Ethics and Transactions
• Professional Legal Research: Advanced Project
• Property Law
• Protecting Human Rights in the UK
• Race and Policing
• Religion, Law and Society
• Rethinking Policing
• Values, Virtues and Ethics

Entry Requirements

UK

• A Levels – BBC (112 UCAS Tariff points)
• T levels – 112 UCAS Tariff points
• International Baccalaureate – 112 UCAS Tariff points from all components of the Diploma Programme
• BTEC Extended Diploma – DMM
• BTEC Diploma – DD
• Access – 112 UCAS Tariff points from the Access course

In addition to one of the above, you should have:

• GCSE English Language grade 4/C – IB grade 4 Higher Level
• GCSE Maths grade 4/C – IB grade 4

If your first language is not English, you will need an IELTS of 6.0 overall, with 6.0 in writing and 5.5 in the other components.

International

• International Baccalaureate – 112 UCAS Tariff points from all components of the Diploma Programme
• We welcome applications from students around the world who have other internationally recognised qualifications
• We accept a wide range of international high school level qualifications

English Language Requirements

• If your first language is not English, you will need an IELTS of 6.0 overall, with at least 6.0 in writing and 5.5 in the other components

Fees and Funding

UK

• UK tuition fee: £9,535 (Price per academic year)

International

• International tuition fee: £17,000 (Price per academic year)

Teaching and Assessment

How You'll Be Taught

• Teaching methods across all our undergraduate courses focus on active student learning through lectures, seminars, workshops, problem-based and blended learning, and where appropriate practical application

How You'll Be Assessed

• Our undergraduate courses include a wide variety of assessments
• Assessments typically fall into three broad categories: Practical, Written exams, Coursework

Supporting You

• Our Student Hub is where you’ll find out about the services and support we offer, helping you get the best out of your time with us
• Study support – workshops, 1-2-1 support and online resources to help improve your academic and research skills
• Personal tutors – support you in fulfilling your academic and personal potential
• Student advice team – provide specialist advice on a range of issues including funding, benefits and visas
• Extra-curricular activities – volunteering opportunities, sports and fitness activities, student events and more

Course Location

• Our Regent Campus is composed of three sites, situated on and around Regent Street – one of the most famous and vibrant streets in London
• Little Titchfield Street is the home of Westminster Law School and, as part of our Regent Campus, benefits from a central London location
• The facilities include a full-size mock courtroom, high-tech learning spaces, a pro-bono clinic and a 382-seat lecture theatre

Related Courses

• Law LLB Honours
• European Legal Studies LLB Honours
• Law and Criminal Justice LLB Honours