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FDA IN POLICING – AN
EMPLOYER PERSPECTIVE
Or Helping the Police with their Enquiries?
Inspector Chris Ward, Foundation Degree Project
Manager, Thames Valley Police
Lindsay Cloughley, HE Coordinator, OCVC.
Agnes Hibbert, Liaison Manager
Richard Huggins, Associate Dean, SD.
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Oxford Brookes University
Overview
• Partnership Background
• Strategic Context
• Developing the Foundation Degree
Issues
• HE
• FE
• TVP
• Conclusions
PARTNERSHIP BACKGROUND
• 1998 onwards – development of a range of
projects with the Thames Valley Police.
• Partnership working at Local Strategic
Partnership Level
• Strategic Commitment to the region and to
community Engagement (Brookes)
• Engagement with student population and wider
community (TVP)
STRATEGIC CONTEXTS
• Increased
‘professionalisation’ of
the police.
• Increased emphasis
on Evidence Based
Policing
• Increased emphasis
on community
engagement, diversity,
civic role of the police
• Procedural Justice
Thames Valley Police
THREE
COUNTIES
SIX
MILLION
ANNUAL
visitors
507
Police
community
support
officers
PCSOs
196
2,744
staff
miles of
motorway
613
2,200
2.2m
population
square
miles
volunteers
4,202
Police officers
750
Special
Constables
Diverse
population
108 neighbourhoods
14
Local
Police Areas
Developing the Foundation Degree
• Thames Valley Police
working with three HE
providers - Brookes,
Bucks, Northampton
• Issues:
 Student numbers - recruitment
 Requirement – impact on structure of programme
 Procedures and language
COURSE DEVELOPMENT AND DELIVERY
• Associate College Partnership
• Collaborative curriculum development - OCVC/Brookes
and Thames Valley Police.
• Collaborative delivery.
• On-going development of content and modes of delivery.
CONCLUSIONS
Complex process
Diverse organisational cultures
Shared objectives – but sometimes different
emphasis
Expectation management
Variety of Stakeholders
Systems
New models of working