The Centre offers learning and educational opportunities in a variety of ways for the police and policing staff. These can be tailored to Force or individual requirements to improve local training needs and development.
We offer a range of informal, continuing professional development and bespoke course development opportunities.
The Open University offers over one thousand free online courses on its OpenLearn platform. The platform usually receives over 100,000 visits per day from learners who wish to improve their knowledge about relevant topics.
The Department for Policing and CPRL have provided a wide range of learning content about policing on the platform, included content from our Policing degree and courses co-created with our partner forces.
You can access the courses from our Policing Practice and Leadership Hub on OpenLearn where you can easily search for relevant learning. The link to the Hub is Policing practice and leadership | OpenLearn - Open University.
The courses on OpenLearn typically consist of between 4 and 10 hours of learning. There are also other resources, such as articles, that are included on the platform. Some forces integrate these courses into CPD plans for their own officers and staff.
CPRL have the capacity and capability to assist you with the development of new learning and CPD. This can take three forms:
Our Faculty have considerable experience in policing practice, leadership and management and/or training needs analysis. We can therefore offer a highly customised consultancy service for the Forces. We recently completed a large piece of work for one Force where we thoroughly assessed their training needs for new officers and their supervisors.
This work made a wide-ranging set of recommendations for the integration of new officers into response and community policing roles.
We offer 2 formal routes of qualifications listed below: apprenticeships and research-based postgraduate study.
The Centre offers 2 apprenticeship qualification opportunities: Police Community Support Officer and Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship. For more information about what apprenticeships are and how they can benefit you and your Force, please select this link: The Open University Apprenticeships webpage.
The Centre offers PhD studentships to police officers and staff who are part of the member Forces. Please select this link for more information: Research-based postgraduate study.
The International Research Society for Public Management has published the call for abstracts for next year’s conference.
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