This course will enable you to develop the skills and capabilities to lead and manage complex operations, teams and organisations in order to achieve effective and ethical policing outcomes.

The course will present you with a learning experience which is integrated and connected, which covers key areas of the National Policing Curriculum (NPC), and integrates the Policing Education Qualifications Framework (PEQF) and the Chartered Manager standard.

You will critically examine the issues of investigating serious crime considering how technological, societal and criminal challenges are creating a new context to police legitimacy and effectiveness. You will be able to use a range of techniques and research methods in order to improve and enhance professional policing practice. The intention is to develop capability to:

• Deal with complex issues within serious crime being both systematic and creative
• Make sound evidence-based judgements and communicate their conclusions clearly to diverse audiences
• Demonstrate self-direction and innovative approaches to solving problems
• Act autonomously in planning and implementing tasks at a Superintendent, strategic or equivalent level.

This course is aimed at those in senior leadership roles who want to improve their capability as serious crime investigators.

On completion of this programme you could be well placed to take on leadership roles in policing, national law enforcement and intelligence organisations, community safety, criminal justice or researching into police and society.