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Professional Policing BA (Hons)

  • Level(s) of Study: Undergraduate
  • UCAS Code(s): L436
  • Start Date(s): September 2023
  • Duration: Three years full-time
  • Study Mode(s): Full-time
  • Campus: City Campus
  • Entry Requirements:
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Introduction:

The exciting new BA (Hons) Professional Policing degree provides you with a strong understanding of policing through a combination of theory and real-world policing practice experience as a Special Constable.

Throughout the course, you'll gain a unique and innovative insight into the world of policing while ensuring you develop your own significant body of knowledge and practice during your studies. The course will also allow you to consider crime and society from wider perspectives and analyse these within a national and international criminological and legal contexts.

Why choose this course?

  • Gain the essential skills, knowledge and values required for the College of Policing’s (CoP) ‘Policing Education Qualification Framework’ (PEQF). This serves as the benchmark for contemporary professional policing and thus determines pre/post join standards for policing.
  • A team of practice-based policing and criminology academics will deepen your understanding of the sector; keeping you up-to-date with contemporary policing issues and debates.
  • Strong links with Nottinghamshire Police.
  • Ideal starting point if you want a career in Policing or law enforcement.

What you’ll study

Don’t just take our word for it, hear from our students themselves

Student Profiles

Isaac Hepworth

Professional Policing

Upon visiting multiple University open days around the country, NTU’s Professional Policing degree was by far the best and stood as the benchmark to which I compared all the other open days.

Aidan Dingwall

Professional Policing

The course itself was backed by a wonderful team of lecturers who were super supportive and brought both professional and academic experience which made every topic and assignment unique and fascinating. This for me was always the biggest draw to NTU.

Rory Cole

Professional Policing

I knew that NTU worked in partnership with Nottinghamshire Police to offer the chance to become a Special Constable alongside your studies. This was a big factor in why I chose to study at NTU.

Tomas Catherwood

Professional Policing

Knowing that I wasn’t just being taught from a textbook and instead was getting insight from real-life situations that lecturers had faced was a real selling point for me.

Staff Profiles

Mr Phil Rudkin - Principal Lecturer

School of Social Sciences

Phil was a Police Officer for nearly 15 years with Leicestershire Police. Phil now directly oversees the management of all policing and law enforcement provision across the department at levels

Mr Georg Martin Tangen - Senior Lecturer

School of Social Sciences

Martin Tangen is a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for MSc International Law Enforcement

Parminder Pabla - Senior Lecturer

School of Social Sciences

Parm Pabla is a lecturer on the BA (Hons) Policing course at Nottingham Trent University.

Craig Nolan - Senior Lecturer

School of Social Sciences

Craig is a Lecturer in professional policing, particularly focusing on Criminal Justice, Front Line Policing and Problem Solving/decision making/Crime Prevention at undergraduate level. He is also Course leader for the

Careers and employability

Your career development

When you graduate, you'll be in the best position to embark on a successful career in the police, prison, probation services or in law enforcement. You'll have developed the essential skills and knowledge to commence a career in policing immediately upon graduation.

You'll have gained a range of knowledge specific and transferable skills including communication, presentation and problem solving skills. You'll be able to use a selection of forms of information technology to gather, analyse and present policing data.

Our Employability Team

We have a dedicated Employability team located on the City Campus. The team are well placed to give you specialist guidance and practical help that will really make a difference to your prospects once you do graduate.

Campus and facilities

How to apply

Ready to join us? Then apply as soon as you can. Just click the Apply button at the top of the page and follow the instructions for applying. Make sure you check the entry requirements above carefully before you do.

Writing your application and personal statement

Be honest, thorough and persuasive in your application. Remember, we can only make a decision based on what you tell us. So include all of your qualifications and grades, including resits or predicted grades.

Your personal statement is a really important part of your application. It’s your chance to convince us why we should offer you a place! You’ve got 4,000 characters to impress us. Make sure you use them to show how your skills and qualities are relevant to the course(s) you’re applying for. For more hints and tips, take a look at our page on how to write a good personal statement.

Keeping up to date

After you’ve applied, we’ll be sending you important emails throughout the application process - so check your emails regularly, including your junk mail folder.

You can get more information and advice about applying to NTU on our Your Application page.

Good luck with your application!

You can apply for this course through UCAS. If you are not applying to any other UK universities, you can apply directly to us on our NTU applicant portal.

Application advice

Apply early so that you have enough time to prepare – processing times for Student visas can vary, for example.  After you've applied, we'll be sending you important emails throughout the application process – so check your emails regularly, including your junk mail folder.

Writing your personal statement

Be honest, thorough, and persuasive – we can only make a decision about your application based on what you tell us:

Would you like some advice on your study plans?

Our international teams are highly experienced in answering queries from students all over the world. We also have members of staff based in Vietnam, China, India and Nigeria and work with a worldwide network of education counsellors.

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