Police training and education: past, present and future
2013
Introduction
This chapter argues that higher education (HE) can, and does play a key role in
enhancing the professionalism and professional status of policing in England and
Wales. The chapter first provides the context of the relationships between universities and police services over the past 20 years and the current state of play of
such associations. The chapter then focuses on future developments, for which we
make a number of suggestions. In particular, we argue that the future engagement
between universities and police services should engage with a full range of policing activities in England and Wales. There has been, in our experience, a focus on
initial police training at one end of a continuum and an emphasis on the learning
requirements of senior officers at the other end of the continuum. However, the
vast majority of what the police do, and the vast majority of police officers, have
received little or no consideration within university/police engagements. We argue
that this ‘excluded middle’ needs to be given much more attention if the professionalism and professional status of policing are to be realised.
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