Follow the Yellow Brick Road: A Reflection on the Development of Police Constable Education at UWE, Bristol

Benford, Georgie; McCready, Claudia; Butler, Christian; Gaunt, Matthew

Abstract

Those of us who have undertaken the task of interpreting the Police Education Qualification Framework (PEQF) and designing programmes for police education are attempting to achieve transformation through the vehicle of learning.

This chapter will look at the PEQF ambitions, which were initially set out by NPCC (Policing Vision 2025, 2016) and consider how the original national curriculum and latter adaptions have developed. This is done, in an attempt to understand and critically evaluate the way in which the PCER has emerged as a set of distinct and dynamic programmes with a particular implied learning framework, and to consider whether it can achieve its initial goals within the current format.

• Online Publication Date: Oct 22, 2024
• Publication Date: 2024
• Deposit Date: Apr 25, 2025
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 23, 2025
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Pages: 31-47
• Series Title: The University Beat
• Book Title: The University Beat: Critical Reflections on the Delivery of Police Education in England and Wales
• Chapter Number: Three
• ISBN: 9783031684302
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68431-9_3
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/14328340
• Publisher URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-68431-9_3
• Additional Information: First Online: 22 October 2024