Curriculum Information

In this module students will demonstrate Full Operational Competence in the role of a Police Constable. This is achieved by evidencing enhanced professional practice against the first 10 assessment criteria outlined in the College of Policing Operational Competence Portfolio (OCP) that meets the national sector standard on two separate occasions. They will also demonstrate operational competency against the higher-level assessment criteria numbered 11 to 14 in the OCP. 

In Year 1 of the course students will have received teaching and assessment on a variety of subject areas and will have achieved Independent Patrol Status by applying these knowledge and skills in the workplace. The Course has a spiral curriculum and students will revisit these subject areas in more depth and increased complexity. Similarly, this module will direct the student to an enhanced level of operational competency. 

Students will have access to online materials that informs the student on good working practices and how gather and record evidence of operational competence.  

Throughout Year 2 students will be deployed operationally ensuring that the learner has sufficient opportunity to experience policing situations of varying complexity and predictability requiring the application of a wide range of techniques and information sources.  

Qualified assessors through a series of one-to-one tutorials will ask the student to self-reflect on their activities and critique their performance based on external expectations, personal drivers and by measuring their practice against theory, thus ensuring levels of competence incrementally build throughout the year and students critical thinking evolves as part of their situated learning. During tutorials students will additionally be required to generate ideas through the analysis of concepts at an abstract level demonstrating a command of their acquired specialised skills by formulating responses to well-defined and abstract problems with a critical mindset. Students will analyse and evaluate information and be expected to apply this by exercising significant judgement across a broad range of functions and accept responsibility for determining and achieving personal or group outcomes. The student will be required to engage in an ongoing learning cycle of practicing theory and theorising practice. 

Through peer feedback and self-reflection students will be able to identify external expectations and adapt their own performance accordingly, and evidence increased levels of operational competence within the portfolio in an individual and a wider needs context. 

The College of Policing principles for assessing competence in the workplace will be applied and detailed examination of the evidence provided, relative to the skills, knowledge and understanding from the underpinning curriculum.