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Watkinson-Miley, C, Cox, C and Deshpande, M (2021) A New Generation of Police Officers: Experiences of Student Officers Undertaking the Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship in One UK Police Force. Policing: a Journal of Policy and Practice, 16 (1). pp. 122-134. ISSN 1752-4520
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The Policing Vision 2025 and 2030 outlined long-term strategies to ensure consistency and accreditation in those joining policing careers in England and Wales, standardizing the qualifications obtained by all new recruits. The Police Educational Qualifications Framework has since been designed to support this vision, enabling three new entry routes into policing, one being the Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship. This resulted in policing becoming a graduate profession from 2020, which is argued to be a radical transformation for policing. This research conducted focus groups and thematic analysis with three cohorts of student police officers (N = 30) undertaking the Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship (PCDA) at different stages of their programme in one police force. It unpicked motivations for joining the PCDA, their experiences so far and improvements for future workings of the programme. The disconnect between policing and academia was a key barrier, and students could not always utilize the academic teaching in practical policing settings.
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| Additional Information: | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Policing: a Journal of Policy and Practice following peer review. The version of record Charlotte Watkinson-Miley, Carol Cox, Maya Deshpande, A New Generation of Police Officers: Experiences of Student Officers Undertaking the Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship in One UK Police Force, Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, Volume 16, Issue 1, March 2022, Pages 122–134, is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paab062 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Criminology & Penology; CULTURE; DEAF; DIALOGUE; EDUCATION; Social Sciences; Social Sciences; Criminology & Penology; EDUCATION; DIALOGUE; CULTURE; DEAF; 1602 Criminology |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology > HV7231 Criminal Justice Administrations > HV7551 Police. Detectives. Constabulary |
| Divisions: | Justice Studies (from Sep 19) |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| SWORD Depositor: | A Symplectic |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Oct 2022 09:37 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2023 00:50 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1093/police/paab062 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/17971 |
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