The overall aim is to provide the student with the knowledge and understanding on how policing may be delivered in the future by developing decision making, where policing takes responsibility to ensure that there is a credible evidence base to operational and business decisions in policing. Students will be equipped to understand public expectations and techniques to identify predictable demand, while understanding the need to manage high risk occurrences.

Students will study the use of Artificial Intelligence in modern day policing. Additionally, students will be given an understanding of evidence-based principles and the importance of practical outcomes that will reduce demand on policing services and increase public confidence. Students will be given an insight into how practitioners and academics can develop new research and how to develop the skills required to disseminate and promote police-based research.

This module aims to provide students with knowledge to enable them to critically evaluate the effectiveness of community policing in the United Kingdom. Students will be able to articulate the importance of effective community engagement and partnership working with the police to retain policing legitimacy and community cohesion. Students will analyse and discuss how community problem solving effects various crime and disorder issues in society. Students will evaluate the changing communities and discuss contextually what arguably was a catalyst for change and be able to critically articulate topics connected such as the fear of crime, crime reduction, and the links to the needs of victims, offenders and locations in relation to incidents of crime and disorder. Students then focus on what aspects can reduce effectiveness of key strategies such as austerity, the media, police structures, poverty and certain criminological factors. 

The aim of this module is to focus on the Anatomy of a Crime and allow the students to apply learning in a safe teaching environment and to develop employability skills as criminal investigators. The intention is for students to investigate a reported crime from its initial report, up to presenting evidence at court. This module builds on knowledge relating to criminal decision making and the responsibilities of a response officer.

An investigative journey will include the Hydra Immersive Suite, where students will receive the report of the crime and develop a hypothesis of the cause and develop intelligence to identify a suspect. They will then attend the Crime Scene House, where they will develop skills in implementing witness and forensic strategies and digital forensic strategies, as well as create ongoing decision logs to effectively record their decision-making processes. Having gathered all available sources of intelligence and evidence, the students will plan and execute a search warrant culminating in the arrest of a suspect along with Investigative interviewing of the identified suspect. Finally, the students will prepare their evidence in a case file that will ultimately be presented at court. Students will also attend sessions in Chester Crown Court to witness police officers and witnesses present their evidence. This will allow students to apply prior learning and develop skills in criminal investigation, teamworking, public speaking and communication skills.

This module  takes both a theoretical and practical approach to criminology and sociology. It examines the relationship between victims and those who commit crime and how to apply sociological, historical, psychological, criminal and cultural perspectives to the study of crime and punishment and how societies respond to such offending.

Students will learn several Crime prevention principles and theories, and examine and discuss the role of the public, the Police and both statutory and statutory Authorities role in crime prevention.

This module builds upon knowledge from the study of evidence based policing and aims to introduce students to the foundations of social scientific research by enabling them to distinguish between, and to apply, a variety of ontological, epistemological and methodological approaches. Students will assess the strengths, weaknesses and 'fitness for purpose' of research methodologies and methods and understand the significance of, and to choose between, the methods in a variety of contexts. The student will gain a comprehensive understanding of the significance of ethical practice when planning and conducting research, enabling them to choose between different forms of research analysis and be able to critique research and to select different forms of research design. Their knowledge gained in this module, forms the foundation of their research dissertation, which they will undertake in Year 3 (IP6105).