PC2S053 - Transforming Communities 01 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2031 | Version 1

Associated Module Information

Module Code: PC2S053
Module Title: Transforming Communities
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences and Education
Faculty Group: Operational Policing
Faculty Sub Group: Operational Policing
Module Leader: Paul Searle, Jack Moss
Module Team: Gordon Blake, Christijan Boyle, Claire Evans, Roger Phillips, Victoria Wall, Joanne Mercurio, Michelle Lamont, Kirsty Hyland, Neil Harvey, Kevin Bushby, Paul Searle, Bethan Shellard-Dedman, Tina Avey-Hebditch, Richard Law, Colette Chilcott, Rezbi Duffield, Michael Chard, Rachael Lugg, Tiffany O'Connor, Fiona Webb, Barry Murphy, Sarah Jones
First Intended Intake: JAN 2025 Final Year of Intake: 2031
Date Closed:
Credit Value: 20 Credit Level: 5
Language: English
Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: 0
Equivalent Module:
HECOS codes: 100486 - policing
HECOS Code Weighting: 100

Document Version Information

Version 1
Valid From 01 Jan 2025
Valid To 31 Dec 2031

Module Aims

To explore how methods of intervention and prevention through police and partnership working can lead to effective community policing, enhancing student understanding of the issues that impact the communities they police. 

To develop strategies, tools and investigative techniques for effective problem solving, enhancing student understanding of the role of police and partner agencies to resolve community issues and disrupt criminality in the community. 

Content Summary

Through a blended learning approach utilising taught sessions, group work and a case study, students will explore key elements and challenges associated with effective community policing.  

Students will enhance their knowledge and understanding of the important of developing and promoting effective partnerships and the methods utilised to intervene and prevent community issues escalating.  Students will explore the challenges associated with this and how they can be overcome.  

Students will also develop their understanding of the issues faced within communities which influence behaviours, including community trauma, which can impact on the relationship with the police. 

Students will consider the strategies, tools and approaches available for effective problem solving alongside techniques for disrupting criminality within the community through the use intelligence and investigation.    

Applying their learning, students will use immersive learning, completing a case study based on real events which requires them to address issues within a community and formulate a plan, based on lessons learned to address this issue.

Learning and Teaching Methods

Activity Type Hours
Lecture 10
Tutorials 1
Work-based Learning 140
Independent Study 32
Formative Assessment - scheduled 1
Problem/Challenge based learning 10
Groupwork 6
Total Hours Selected 200

Learning Outcomes

# Learning Outcome
LO1 To assess issues impacting on communities and address these through developing partnership working and utilising problem-solving methods.
LO2 To recommend and utilise strategies, tools and lessons learned within a partnership problem solving approach to intervene and prevent issues within the community, including disruption of any linked criminality.

Module Requisites

N/A

Assessment Criteria

Assessment Category Assessment Type Description Duration Word Count Weight (%) Best of? Pass Mark
Asynchronous Assessment Case study 1 A concentrated inquiry into a complex Community Policing incident. 0 3000 100 No 40

Assessment Matrix

Assessment Type Learning Outcomes
LO1 LO2
Case study 1

Reading List

Blackstone's handbook for policing students- Oxford University Press (Latest Version) 

Bullock, K. et al. (2021) ‘Problem-oriented policing in England and Wales: barriers and facilitators’, Policing and Society, 32(9), pp. 1087–1102. doi: 10.1080/10439463.2021.2003361. 

College of Policing. (2020) Partnership Working. Available at: https://www.college.police.uk/app/major-investigation-and-public-protection/hate-crime/partnership-working 

O’Reilly, C. (2024) Neighbourhood Policing: Context, Practices and Challenges. Abridged 1. Bristol, UK: Policy Press. 

Wilson, B. L. et al. (2023) Black and Blue: An integrated conceptual framework for understanding the trauma and mental impacts of police violence exposure in Black communities. Journal of human behavior in the social environment. [Online] 1–24.