3.16 Implementing the transformation of police learning and development

November 2017 - September 2019

The major changes occurring in policing to meet Policing Vision 2025 include the recognition of the value in enhancing and changing police forces’ approaches to training, learning and development.

This is an important strategic undertaking so the project has been designed as action research – aiming to both understand but also work collaboratively with forces and national agencies to improve the training, learning and development function in police services, both strategically and operationally.

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Background

The funding and drive behind the project

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Objectives

Find out what the goals are and how we are fulfilling them

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Outputs

The direction of travel and current published project outputs.

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Project team

Introducing the team from the Open University Centre and their MOPAC collaborators

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News

Welcome Clifford as our new policing professor

Our new Professor of Policing and Research, whose role includes becoming Academic Director of our Centre for Policing Research and Learning (CPRL), is Clifford Stott MBE.


As the Centre’s lead, a significant part of his role will be working with academics across and beyond the Faculty, as well as CPRL’s police force partners, to generate research and learning relevant to theory, policy and practice.

2nd March 2026