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MOPAC understands the importance of investing in the policing workforce so that they can police effectively. Between 2017 and 2019 MOPAC led a programme funded by the Home Office, focused on strengthening the Learning and Development function in policing. The programme supported all forces to transform the delivery of Learning and Development to officers and staff, to achieve the ambitions of the NPCC/APCC Policing Vision 2025.
The context for this work is the changing nature of demands and the increasing complexity of the challenges facing policing.
The programme was led by MOPAC in collaboration with the Open University and working closely with the National Police Chiefs’ Council, Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, the College of Policing and all Home Office police forces, involving a large number of officers and staff in these Forces.
The Implementing Transformation of Police Learning and Development (ITPLD) Project intended to produce academically rigorous research which would then be translated into practical products and resources to support policing to engage the challenge of Vision 2025 and beyond. Set out below are the outputs from the project to fulfil these ambitions.
Strategic Narrative
The Strategic Narrative sets out a theory of change for police Learning and Development which has been developed as a result of the research carried out over the course of the project. In doing so it draws on the learning that has been co-produced between the academic research team and policing practitioners in their joint exploration of the police L&D landscape. This synthesis of academic and practitioner knowledge and learning creates a strong empirical basis for the position it sets out.
The Strategic Narrative on a Page
Baseline Surveys
Survey of all forces across England and Wales to establish their current views on preparedness for changes to meet Policing Vision 2025:
Hartley J and Khalil L (2018) Baseline survey. Implementing the transformation of police training, learning and development.
As well as a review of Forces financing of L&D functions:
Bandy G (2018) Financial baseline.
Endline Survey
As a follow up to the initial survey a second survey was conducted some 12 months later. It repeated the questions asked in the original survey and posed new questions aligned to the development of the Destination Map. This survey provides robust empirical evidence of the changes in preparedness of Police L&D functions across the police services of England and Wales across the timescale of the project.
Details of this endline survey can now be seen in the report:
Khalil L., Harding R., Hartley J., with IFF Survey (2019)
Learning from Other Professions
An important element of the research was understanding how other professions, notably paramedics and nursing, had been on institutional journeys towards ‘professionalisation’. Set out below is the outcome of this research based on interviews with practitioners and a literature review on the professionalisation journeys of other professions:
The 'Professionalisation' Journey
Collaborative Deep Dives & Small Case Studies
In order to understand the state of L&D functions, as well as the experiences and views of the L&D professionals in policing a number of action research based in-depth case studies were undertaken. These collaborative deep dives (CDDs) were undertaken in partnership with the host forces and utilised co-researchers from other police services to ensure the results were co-produced between academic and practitioner participants. For reasons of confidentiality individual reports are not publicly available, however for more information on the outcomes of this element of the project see below:
First Impressions Report - during Collaborative Deep Dives with forces
Collaborative Deep Dive Summary Report - an overview of the emerging themes and key factors identified from the completed CDDs
Destination Map and Tools Techniques and Resources (TTR)
Destination Map and the Tools Techniques and Resources (TTR) For Learning and Development In Policing
In addition, specific toolkits can be found on the links below:
Financial Toolkit
Bandy G (2019) provides guidance for L&D professionals to help them work towards financial management arrangements that meet the criteria set out in the Destination Map
Digital Learning Toolkit
Papathoma T (2019) aims to help police workforce professionals with guidance for promising practices when designing digital learning packages.