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Police constable (integrated degree) (level 6)

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Upholding law and order through the detection, prevention and investigation of crime.

Knowledge, skills and behaviours
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Knowledge

  • Ethics and values of professional policing, including duty of care, service delivery, employment practice, efficiency, effectiveness and value for money, code of ethics, professional standards, and equality, diversity, inclusion and human rights.
  • The role of the police constable, key cross-cutting and inter-dependent areas of policing, including roles and responsibilities of multi-agency organisations and the different partners police collaborate with locally and nationally.
  • Legal and professional requirements of authorised professional practice (APP), to inform policing practice, including specialist interrelated contemporary theories, ideas, and methods to prevent and detect crime in an operational policing context.
  • How to respond to incidents, preserve scenes and secure evidence.
  • Requirements for managing and resolving conflict safely and lawfully.
  • Recognise the fundamental responsibility, specialist interrelated contemporary theories, ideas and methods to deal with suspects and offenders, including arresting, detaining, and reporting individuals.
  • How to conduct priority and volume investigations.
  • The importance of aligning to and acting upon the principles of ethical interviewing of victims, witnesses, and suspects in the criminal justice system.
  • How to systematically gather, submit, store and share information and intelligence to further policing-related outcomes.
  • The importance of aligning to and acting upon the principles of conducting ethical searches of individuals, vehicles, premises, outside and virtual spaces.
  • The concepts and practice relating to digital policing, cyber enabled crime, and how to optimise the use of available technology and specialist support including digital forensic investigation to maximise the recovery of digital evidence.
  • The importance of managing health and safety risks for self and others, including ongoing wellbeing and resilience relating to psychological stress and trauma, and how and where to access organisational and professional support.
  • How to engage independent thinking to interpret and apply all appropriate law, including the use of discretion, where appropriate as it relates to any encountered policing situation, incident, or context.
  • Social behaviour and society, including their origins, development, organisation, networks, and institutions as related to policing across diverse and increasingly complex communities.
  • Specialist interrelated contemporary theories, ideas, and methods to support individuals in policing situations including victims, witnesses and the vulnerable.
  • Established principles and strategies for evidenced based policing and problem-solving to inform decision-making and actions across policing.
  • Recognise how legislation, policy, and procedure at local, national and international level informs policing practice in relation to response, community, investigation, intelligence and roads policing.
  • Research methodologies to ensure a systematic evidence-based approach to preventative policing, including how to identify the appropriate research design, critically analyse, interpret, implement, share and evaluate findings to create positive policing outcomes.
  • Concepts of how policing contributes to environmental, economic and social sustainability goals at individual, force, national and international level.
  • The use of reflective practice theories to inform policing and the professional development of an individual.
  • The current political, economic, social, technological, environmental, legal and ethical discussions impacting the day-to-day policing situations police constables face.
  • Communication techniques to give and receive information, adapting style to audience, using influencing techniques and appropriate terminology, and overcoming barriers to communication including internally, with colleagues, other teams and departments, other police forces, and externally via social media, collaborative organisations and the public, including vulnerable people.
  • Theories and concepts of leadership across policing, including the limits of their authority and the actions they can take in line with organisational policy, including escalation procedures.

Skills

  • Apply authorised professional practice (APP) within day-to-day policing contexts in line with local policing policies.
  • Identify, organise, engage, and clearly communicate information with a range of stakeholders to manage planned and dynamic situations, which influence and lead others in a policing context.
  • Gather, handle, store, disclose and analyse information and intelligence from relevant sources, in line with organisational policies and procedures to support law enforcement and to maximise policing effectiveness.
  • Apply an open investigative mind-set whilst cognisant of the code of ethics and national decision-making model.
  • Manage dynamic conflict situations through leadership, taking personal accountability for the use of proportionate and justifiable responses and actions.
  • Manage ethical searches for evidence and information in differing environments, including searching of people, vehicles and open spaces.
  • Provide an initial, autonomous and risk assessed response to incidents, including complex and confrontational, to bring about the best possible outcomes.
  • Provide an initial, autonomous response to crime scenes, that require the management and preservation of evidence and exhibits.
  • Provide leadership at policing incidents and situations providing empathetic support to protect the public including the most vulnerable.
  • Manage and conduct priority and volume investigations by identifying, evaluating and acting upon appropriate lines of enquiry including digital evidence, to enable the presenting of permissible evidence to authorities where required.
  • Use police powers to deal with suspects including arrest, report and alternative disposal options.
  • Interview victims, witnesses and suspects, inclusive of vulnerable persons in accordance with investigative standards contained within Authorised Professional Practice and use of the PEACE model.
  • Assess risk and threats demonstrating critical thinking using the national decision-making model, in order to select and apply specialist techniques to support individuals in need of public protection.
  • Use discretion when applying powers across policing situations ensuring these are proportionate, legal, accountable and necessary.
  • Engage in self-reflection to improve own professional practice in future operational activities.
  • Apply reflection strategies to existing policy and practice recommending innovative approaches to policing.
  • Engage with individuals and collaborate with organisations in the community, to enhance effective teamworking in order to achieve positive outcomes for public reassurance, safety and well-being.
  • Critically apply problem-solving techniques to prevention interventions to inform decision-making and actions in policing environments.
  • Apply local organisational sustainable practices.
  • Embed organisational led good practice requirements for equality, diversity and inclusivity in decision making in policing situations.

Behaviours

  • Be accountable and take ownership for own role and responsibilities inclusive of own development and professional workload, whilst being effective and willing to take appropriate, justifiable risks.
  • Maintain the highest standards of professionalism and trustworthiness, making sure that values, moral codes and ethical standards are consistently upheld, including challenging others where appropriate.
  • Recognise and apply techniques to manage emotions in stressful situations, understanding motivations and underlying reasons for own behaviour and that of others, including showing empathy to colleagues, the public and other service users.
  • Be professionally inquisitive and open minded to critically exploring evidence-based research and practice in order to identify creative problem-solving methods.
  • Role model the police service’s values in day-to-day activities, providing inspiration, trust, confidence and clarity to colleagues and stakeholders across teams.
Apprenticeship category (sector)
Protective services
Qualification level
6
Equal to degree
Course duration
36 months
Maximum funding
£27,000
Maximum government funding for
apprenticeship training and assessment costs.
Job titles include
  • Intelligence officer
  • Local policing/community officer
  • Police officer
  • Response officer
  • Roads policing officer
  • Volume and priority investigator

View more information about Police constable (integrated degree) (level 6) from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.