**Overview** Ready to join the frontline of policing and investigation? Fast-track your career with a professional qualification that gives you the knowledge, skills and experience you need to get ahead. This BSc (Hons) Policing and Investigation degree course is a part-time, distance learning course. You’ll explore the challenges and issues confronting the policing and investigation sector, and develop your critical and analytical skills. By completing this course, you'll boost your career and promotions prospects and be able to work in many areas of policing and investigation. **What you'll experience** On this Policing and Investigation course you’ll: - Develop academic and professional expertise in policing and criminal investigation - Be taught by leading academics from the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies - Work at your own pace, in your own time and in your own location, with interactive online learning materials - Join virtual study days with live seminars, interviews and question and answer sessions - Have optional opportunities to attend the University - Get the same support and similar benefits to students based on campus - Tailor your studies, by choosing modules that match your interests and career ambitions - Have the chance to complete the course more quickly if you have relevant prior learning or work experience **Careers and opportunities** When you finish the course, our Careers and Employability service can help you prepare for a promotion or find a job that puts your skills to work in the field. What can you do with a Policing and Investigation (Distance Learning) degree? You’ll be ready to take on roles in areas such as: - the police - the civil service - local government What jobs can you do with a Policing and Investigation (Distance Learning) degree? Graduates have also pursued roles in public and private sector organisations in roles such as: - criminal investigator - police staff - analyst and researcher After you leave the University, you can get help, advice and support for up to 5 years from our Careers and Employability service as you advance in your career. "In a rapidly changing and evolving world with increasing demands upon the police, this course draws on very relevant and applied issues, and has helped me develop as a professional." – Eirikur Valberg, BSc Hons Policing and Investigation student

Stage 1 Core modules currently include: - Introduction to Research Skills - Social Context of Policing - Studying Criminology - Understanding Criminology There are no optional modules in this stage. Stage 2 Core modules currently include: - Frameworks of Investigation - Introduction to Criminal Law and Legal Studies - Introduction to Investigation - Investigation: Psychology and Law - Police Operations and Policing Processes - Research Methods Options to choose from in this stage currently include: - Anti-Fraud Strategies - Business Continuity and Crisis Management - Fundamentals of Forensic Investigation - Global, State and Corporate Security - Issues in Criminal Justice - Issues in Criminology - Penology - The Fraud Problem - Youth Crime, Youth Justice Stage 3 Core modules currently include: - Critical Issues in Public Protection Policing - Major Crime Investigation - Success and Failure - Dissertation Options to choose from in this stage currently include: - Business Administration in the Security and Justice Sectors - Counter Terrorism and UK National Security - Critical Issues in Public Protection Policing - Internet Risk and Security - Major Crime Investigation – Success and Failure - Organised Crime - Victimology – Victimisation and the Criminal Justice System We use the best and most current research and professional practice alongside feedback from our students to make sure course content is relevant to your future career or further studies. Therefore, some course content may change over time to reflect changes in the discipline or industry and some optional modules may not run every year. If a module doesn’t run, we’ll let you know as soon as possible and help you choose an alternative module.

You’ll be assessed through essays and reports, with essay titles provided at the beginning of the academic year. You’ll be able to test your skills and knowledge informally before you do assessments that count towards your final mark. You can get feedback on all practice and formal assessments so you can improve in the future. The way you're assessed may depend on the modules you select. As a guide, students on this course last year were typically assessed as follows: Stage 1 students: 100% by coursework Stage 2 students: 100% by coursework Stage 3 students: 100% by coursework

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We welcome applications for advanced entry. If you’d like to apply for advanced entry, you need to select the required year when you complete your application.

There are no specific qualification requirements, we will assess your application on its own merits. Applicants may be required to produce a short written artefact to better assist the course leader as to the suitability of the applicant.

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Test	Grade	AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic)	6.0	English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.0 with no component score below 5.5.
PTE Academic	54.0	An overall score of 54 with a minimum of 51 in each skill.
TOEFL (iBT)	79.0	79 with a minimum of 18 in Reading, 17 in Listening, 20 in Speaking and 17 in Writing.
Cambridge English Advanced		Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162.
Cambridge English Proficiency		Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162.
Trinity ISE		Trinity College Integrated Skills in English (ISE) Level III with a Pass in all 4 components

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**Undergraduate fees for 2022 entry will be available shortly.** For further fee information please visit https://www.port.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/undergraduate-fees-and-student-finance

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