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Course option

3years

Full-time | 2024

Subjects

Criminal justice

Social policy

Security policy

The programme helps equip you with a broad understanding of policing while examining the causes, legal framework and responses to crime. We are licenced by the College of Policing to offer the pre-join degree in Professional Policing, allowing you to study first and then apply to a force and follow a shorter on-the-job training programme.

Designed to prepare you for work in the public or private policing sector, this course is taught by former police service staff who are knowledgeable in the requirements of the division, with topics centred on the College of Policing’s National Policing Curriculum to ensure your learning is relevant to developments and challenges within the sector.

Our Policing programme is also one of few courses that enable you to undertake academic modules alongside volunteering as a special constable, a trained member of the community who works with and supports the local police. Special constables generally volunteer around four hours a week, or more, to assist the police in tackling crime in their community. This invaluable experience can help to prepare you for a range of employment opportunities within the police service after graduating.

**Key features**

• You will benefit from Education 2030 - DMU’s new way of delivering courses, focusing on ensuring the best possible experience for our students. Through block teaching, you will focus on one subject at a time instead of several at once. This means that you will be able to focus closely on each subject and absorb your learning material in more depth, whilst working more closely with your tutors and course mates.

• This course teaches you the skills and expertise to prepare for a career in the public or private policing sector, where you will be taught by former police service staff who have first-hand experience of the sector and its requirements.

• Teaching is centred on the National Policing Curriculum to ensure your learning is relevant to contemporary developments and challenges in the sector.

• Apply your learning to a real-world context with opportunities to volunteer as a Special Constable to develop your understanding of the material taught on the course and prepare you for a range of employment opportunities within the police service **(please note this is subject to meeting the requirements of Leicestershire Police and those set out by the Home Office)**

• Gain international experience related to your studies through our DMU Global programme, helping you to apply your learning to a global context. Policing students have previously visited Poland to investigate state crime at the Auschwitz concentration camp, as well as New York to learn about critical incidents of policing in the city.

• This programme caters for a range of career aspirations within the police service and investigatory sector.

• You’ll also have the opportunity to join the Society of Evidenced-Based Policing and engage with the East Midlands Police and Academic Consortium to provide you with insight and context to real-life policing.

Modules

**First Year**
Block 1: Profession of Policing (30 credits)
Block 2: Problem-based Policing (30 credits)
Block 3: Legislation and Policy (30 credits)
Block 4: Research and Study Skills (30 credits)

**Second Year**
Block 1: Research and Practice (15 credits)
Block 1: Choose one from the below: (15 credits)
*Religion, Faith and Crime
*Mental Health and Crime
*Families, Crime and Justice
*Restorative Justice and Rehabilitation
*Drugs and Substance Misuse
*Crime, Deviance and Subcultures
*Domestic Abuse
*Media and Crime
Block 2: Research and Practice (II) (30 credits)
Block 3: Critical Incident Management & Leadership (I) (30 credits)
Block 4: Leadership and Management of Contemporary Issues in Policing (I) (30 credits)

**Third Year**
Block 1: Multi-Agency
Block 2: Critical Incident Management & Leadership (II)
Block 3: Leadership and Management of Contemporary Issues in Policing (II)
Block 4: Dissertation

Assessment methods

A variety of teaching methods, include:
Lectures
Case studies
Seminars
Desk-top exercises
Workshops
E-learning
Specialist guest lectures from practitioners
Visits to practitioners in action
Assessment methods include:
Essays
Examinations
Phase Tests
Presentations
Posters
Case-study critiques
Desk-top, simulated exercises
Policy books
Research Proposal
Dissertation
All of which will be developed as you progress through the course.
Your precise timetable will depend on your modules; however, typical teaching time is approximately 15 hours each week. In addition, you will also be expected to achieve approximately 20 hours of self-directed study.

Tuition fees

Select where you currently live to see what you'll pay:

England
£9,250
per year
Northern Ireland
£9,250
per year
Scotland
£9,250
per year
Wales
£9,250
per year

The Uni


Course location:

Leicester Campus

Department:

Health and Life Sciences

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What students say


We've crunched the numbers to see if overall student satisfaction here is high, medium or low compared to students studying this subject(s) at other universities.

45%
Criminal justice
45%
Social policy
45%
Security policy

How do students rate their degree experience?

The stats below relate to the general subject area/s at this university, not this specific course. We show this where there isn’t enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

Social policy

Teaching and learning

41%
Staff make the subject interesting
51%
Staff are good at explaining things
53%
Ideas and concepts are explored in-depth
53%
Opportunities to apply what I've learned

Assessment and feedback

Feedback on work has been timely
Feedback on work has been helpful
Staff are contactable when needed
Good advice available when making study choices

Resources and organisation

51%
Library resources
67%
IT resources
59%
Course specific equipment and facilities
29%
Course is well organised and has run smoothly

Student voice

Staff value students' opinions
Feel part of a community on my course

Who studies this subject and how do they get on?

98%
UK students
2%
International students
40%
Male students
60%
Female students
68%
2:1 or above
19%
First year drop out rate

Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)

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C
D

After graduation


The stats in this section relate to the general subject area/s at this university – not this specific course. We show this where there isn't enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

Social policy

What are graduates doing after six months?

This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.

£18,000
med
Average annual salary
96%
med
Employed or in further education

Top job areas of graduates

36%
Protective service occupations
8%
Business, finance and related associate professionals
8%
Sales assistants and retail cashiers

Just over 1,600 students graduated in social policy in 2015, which makes it one of the smaller social studies subjects. This is a popular subject at Masters level — 750 Masters in social policy were awarded last year - and so a lot of the more sought-after jobs in management and research tend to go to social policy graduates with postgraduate degrees. For those who leave university after their first degree, then jobs in social care (especially community and youth work) and education, the police, marketing and human resources and recruitment are popular — along with local government, although there are fewer of those jobs around than in the past. This degree is a bit less reliant on London for jobs than other similar subjects, so if you'd like to work outside the capital, it might be worth considering - although the jobs still tend to be in big cities.

What about your long term prospects?

Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.

Social policy

The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.

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Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree.

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