Program Overview

Policing, Law Enforcement and Investigation (with Foundation Year)

Overview

This course is an ideal pathway if you're looking to progress on to our BSc (Hons) Policing, Law Enforcement and Investigation programme. You'll be taught by leading academics and staff who have real-world experience both in the police force and the wider law enforcement sector. You'll learn about digital investigation, law enforcement, and the models behind decision-making within the police.

Why Study with Us

• This course is an ideal pathway if you're looking to progress on to our BSc (Hons) Policing, Law Enforcement and Investigation programme.
• You'll be taught by leading academics and staff who have real-world experience both in the police force and the wider law enforcement sector.
• You'll learn about digital investigation, law enforcement, and the models behind decision-making within the police.

What You'll Do

• You'll learn the fundamentals of policing, law enforcement, and investigation while improving your communication skills and building confidence through individual work and group presentations.
• After progressing from your foundation year, you'll experience a range of hands-on learning and simulate major incidents in our Hydra Minerva Suite.
• You'll benefit from our strong partnerships with constabularies, police forces, the National Crime Agency, and the National Cyber Security Centre.

Modules

Foundation Year

• Academic Skills for Higher Education: Develop a range of core literacy skills to support the skill of extended writing so that you can study independently at Level 4 and beyond in a UK HEI.
• Verbal skills: Rights and Debating: This module will help you develop effective verbal skills and build verbal confidence by participating in the planning and presentation of individual and group tasks.
• Introduction to Law and Policing: This module will introduce you to the purpose of law, the English Legal System, policing, and decision-making in policing.
• Introduction to Criminology and Sociology: Consider the influence and impact of ideas about socially constructed identities, inequalities, and crime in the context of the media's representation of marginalized groups in society.
• Issues in Family Law: Examine how law regulates aspects of family life, including marriage, cohabitations, ending relationships, parent-child relationships, and domestic violence.
• Issues in Sociology: This module will introduce and explain some selected sociological theories, which you'll apply to a case study evaluation of the relationship between health, the body, and disability.
• Police Decisions: Risk and Vulnerability: Explore how the national decision-making model informs the assessment of risk and vulnerability when making decisions.
• Policing: Digital Investigation: This module outlines and explains the variety of crimes that can be committed digitally and explores how these crimes are investigated using science software to analyze and gather digital evidence.
• Issues in Criminology: Explore a range of criminological issues arising from the workings of the criminal justice system to enable a broad understanding to evolve of how criminology as a discipline frames issues relating to crime, criminality, and victimhood.
• Introduction to Psychology: In this module, you will study cognition, development, social behavior, and individual differences.

Year 1

• The History of Criminal Justice: This module outlines the history of punishment and criminal justice in the UK.
• Introduction to Academic Skills: This module will support the development of your academic skills that will be necessary to complete an undergraduate program of study.
• Digital Investigation Technologies: Digital technology is estimated to impact 98% of all reported crimes.
• Introduction to Investigation Skills: Study the processes of gathering evidence, analysis of criminal intelligence, planning of reactive and proactive investigations, and link the concept of criminal investigation to policing.
• Introduction to Law and Enforcement: This module will introduce you to the concepts of policing, public safety, the role and powers of enforcement agencies, and basic principles of criminal law that underpin police powers.

Year 2

• Digital Investigation: Our module introduces you to the legislation, policy, and investigative considerations to prevent and detect crime committed using digital technology.
• Academic Skills 2: Develop transferable career skills to support the management, planning, and evaluation of research, data analysis, and data interpretation.
• Introduction to Vulnerability: This module will introduce you to the principles, methods, and concepts used in protecting and responding to the most vulnerable in society.
• Investigation Skills 2: During this module, you'll consolidate knowledge of evidence gathering, police powers, and investigation skills learned at Level 4.

Year 3

• Investigation Skills 3: This module aims to extend your investigative knowledge and practice to advanced-level procedures and processes, from reports to court applicable to serious and complex crimes.
• Advanced Digital Investigation: Learn the professional skills required to independently investigate a digital incident within an appropriate legal framework.
• Project: On this module, you'll independently plan, design, research, and produce an in-depth study of a real-world problem or issue.

Entry Requirements

• UCAS: 64 points at A2
• BTEC Extended Diploma: MPP
• BTEC Diploma: MM
• Pass Access Course: 64 UCAS points
• International Baccalaureate Diploma: Pass including 64 points from Higher Level subjects
• T Level: P (D or E)
• IELTS: grade 6.0 with no component lower than 5.5
• GCSEs: 5 at Grade C/4 including Maths and English or equivalent

Fees and Funding

• UK: £5,760 for the first year
• International: £17,250 for the first year

Scholarships and Bursaries

• Care Leaver Bursary: Our Care Leaver Bursary is for students who need extra support because they have been in care or are estranged from their parents.
• Estranged Student Support Bursary: Estranged Student Support Bursary is for students who need extra support because they are estranged from their parents.
• Dependants Bursary: Students with financially dependent children may be eligible for our Dependants Bursary as part of our financial support package.
• Foundation Year Bursary: Our Foundation Year Bursary scheme is for students starting a four or five-year undergraduate degree program.

Learning and Assessment

This course is delivered by expert academics and practitioners with extensive experience.

Course delivery is via a mixture of:

• Lectures
• Seminars
• Tutorials
• Practical sessions
• Independent study

Independent study is an important aspect of your course. The exact combination of study time will depend on your module choices.