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Policing

Professional Policing student do flat searches

As part of the professional Policing course students student a module on investigations. Students have been working on a case of a knife-point robbery. They have received information about a potential suspect that has led them to address (an apartment) that they have had to search in pairs. From there

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Policing

Police Investigation module for Professional Policing

Professional Policing students are currently working on their police investigations module and some of the activity is managing crime scenes. Student were required to attend the scene of a robbery, search for, and seize evidence, before placing it in exhibit bags and compiling a witness statement outlining what they had

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Courses

Special constables could be issued with police Tasers

Students on the BA (Hons) Professional Policing programme at Newman University will at some stage, be involved in a debate around whether all officers should be issued with a Taser and/or firearms. If students become a Special Constable whilst studying, they may be part of a cohort of officers that

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Policing

The Policing, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill 2021

Over the past decade, protests have become more commonplace across the world and in the UK. The public have become less tolerant over issues involving those such as animal rights, police violence against black people, and violence against women, such as the recent murder of Sarah Everard in South London.

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Policing

Bringing Professional Policing to Newman University

In 2016, the College of Policing, the regulatory body responsible for standards and education in policing, introduced the Police Education Qualifications framework (PEQF) to develop academic programmes for the 43 police services in England and Wales. This incorporated the requirement to obtain an undergraduate Degree in Professional Policing in order

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