A DIRECTORY showing officers and staff how to convert their on-the-job experience into academic certificates will be launched by the College of Policing this summer.<\/p>\n
The Recognised Prior Experience and Learning Directory will help officers build academic credits that can be used towards a qualification.<\/p>\n
The College is planning a national set of qualifications for officers, from a PC degree apprenticeship and a pre-joining policing degree to a postgraduate certificate for inspectors and a master\u2019s apprenticeship for superintendents.<\/p>\n
A spokesman for the College said: “Many officers and staff who provide an excellent service throughout their policing career and develop high-level skills and competencies leave with very little to show for it in terms of externally recognised and transferable qualifications.<\/p>\n
“The directory proposal introduces a means for serving officers and staff to gain accreditation for previous learning and experience in the form of academic credits that could be used as recognised prior learning, to a nationally consistent level, toward academic qualifications.”<\/p>\n
He told Police Oracle that work had already begun on the directory and that the College is working to develop a nationally agreed matrix of credit values for learning programmes with the National Policing Curriculum.<\/p>\n
“The College will also initiate further work to explore funding opportunities to support those in the existing workforce who choose to achieve these qualifications,” he said.<\/p>\n
The qualifications will not be compulsory for officers. Chief Constable Alex Marshall, CEO of the College, has previously said that he wants to preserve the police service’s accessibility as a vocational career for people from all backgrounds, but said he also wants to ensure that the increasingly complex activities undertaken by officers are “properly recognised”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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