3.29 Building an onboarding map for police forces in England and Wales

Academic team: Dr Emma Williams, Dr Nicky Miller, Laura Knight
Policing partners: Durham Constabulary
Status: Complete

This project aims to deliver a new onboarding map for new recruits joining the police service. Following the development and design of the map it will be reviewed in a small number of forces for a short user testing period and stakeholders will provide feedback on implementation. The team will then develop an implementation plan and evaluation framework for forces to use when they embed the process locally. 

This work draws on the findings from a previous project CPRL undertook for Uplift exploring the implications of the police of having a younger in service and age workforce. The work will be delivered in three stages - research, design, and delivery. 

Outputs

TitleOutputs typeLead academicYear
Police onboarding in England and WalesConsultation findings reportWilliams, E2022

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