Objectives

The overall objective is to undertake action research to understand the readiness of forces for Policing Vision 2025, and to work with all 43 territorial police forces in England and Wales to enhance the quality of the police training, learning and development function for this vision. The project runs from November 2017 to end of September 2019.

The research design includes key findings that will be shared in the public domain as soon as is feasible, and these results will be provided directly to police forces and agencies, and will be available to all Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), and other stakeholders, (subject to anonymity about where the data was collected, as required by research ethics).

The project has a Deliverables Schedule within the Contract to demonstrate expected delivery dates for all reports and other outputs.

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