John Geates Director Scottish Police College

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John GeatesDirectorScottish Police College
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Traditional? you tell me
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Training Recruits

• ? National Programme
• ? Cultural change from didactic practice
• to facilitative style
• ? Focus on professional personal
• development
• ? Academic Qualifications
• ? National Award winners

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2007 Training awards

• ? SQA Lifelong Learning highly commended
• ? SQA Champion - winner
• ? SQA Pride o Worth - winner
• ? National Training Awards Scotlands UK
  Finalists
• ? National Training Awards UK winners

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NTA Judges Comments

• The Probationer Training Programme is
• an exceptional initiative which could and should
  serve as a model for the rest of the UK
• the culture change resulting from this
  initiative is inspirational and a story which
  needs to be more widely known as a role model and
  exemplar

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Content

• Development of Knowledge Skills
• ? Diversity Matters
• ? Community Issues
• ? Safety and First Aid
• ? Verbal and Non-verbal
• Communications
• ? Partnership Working
• ? Criminal and Statute Law

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Aims

• Development and Assessment of
• ? Knowledge
• ? Understanding
• ? Skills
• ? Attitudes
• ? Behaviours
• All contributing to lifelong learning and
• professional service to Communities

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Lifelong Learning

• ? Probationer training provides the foundation
  at
• SCQF level 7 Certificate in Higher
  Education.
• ? Professional Development Awards (PDAs) for
• specialist training
• ? Diploma in Police Service Leadership and
• Management (Dip PSLM) SCQF level 8
• ? ACPOS Professional Development Programme
• ? Scottish Police Graduate Programme

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Specialist Training

• ? PDA Road Policing Operations
• ? PDA Crime Intelligence Analysis
• ? PDA in Community Safety Crime Reduction
• ? Credit rated programmes
• Detective Training SCQF level 10
• Investigative Interviewing SCQF level 9
• Authoring ODLs SCQF level 9
• Tachograph Analysis SCQF level 9
• Transferees Course SCQF level 8
• ? International Policing PG Cert (Stirling)?

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Dip.PSLM

• ? Replaces 100 year old Promotion Exams
• ? Launched April 2007 now over 500 active
• students. 750 students by summer 2008.
• ? Professional Development Award at SCQF
• level 8 (120 points)?
• ? Delivered through a blended process but
• largely on-line. Tutor team based at
  Tulliallan.
• ? Covers Contemporary Policing, Criminal
  Justice, Professional
• Ethics, Management and
  Leadership in a policing context.

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ACPOS Professional Development Programme
SCQF 7
SCQF 8
SCQF 9
SCQF 10
Diploma PSLM
Cert. HE -Probation
ALL ACPO(S) APPROVED
HNC Management
Diploma in Management
Degree in Policing 3 strands
Honours Degree in Policing
Cert. HE Training Development
Dip. HE Training Development
Advanced Diploma PSLM
Operational Experience
ILM Membership
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• Scottish Institute for Policing Research
• ? 13 Scottish Universities
• ? Partnership between Police and Higher
  Education
• ? Funded Research into Policing issues in
  Scotland
• ? Development of a Police Graduate School
• ? Police Qualifications through to Masters level

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• Scottish Credit Qualifications Framework
  beyond
• ? All accredited training features
• ? Programmes articulate to other awards
• ? 5 credit rated programmes
• ? SPC invited to participate in Credit Rating
  pilot
• ? Developing International Police Qualifications
• ? Application for EU Erasmus University Charter

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Traditional ? you tell me
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