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Policing in the time of pandemic: How COVID-19 changed police education

9th October 2020

Martin Edwards, Police Trainer and Assessor

OPINION: The coronavirus pandemic has affected all areas of society, and in turn, all facets of policing. In the first in a series of articles linked to this month's Policing in the Time of Pandemic workshops organised by the London Policing College, former officer and current police trainer Martin Edwards shares his experiences of delivering police education in the COVID-19 era.

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Martin is a qualified trainer and assessor who enjoyed a 30-year career as a police officer with the Metropolitan Police Service, attaining the rank of Inspector. Martin was a hostage and crisis negotiator, and has experience of managing counter-terrorism teams, proactive task forces and community policing teams; he also managed the strategic oversight and operational running of custody suites across a large London Borough. Martin was training manager at the Hendon Police Recruit Training School. He has current and extensive experience of training police officers on the Certificate of Knowledge in Policing and Police Recruit Foundation course, holds a Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training and is a qualified assessor. His training skills extend into the international policing arena, having been Head of General Policing at the Jordanian International Police Training Centre, where he led the international trainers and interpreters in delivering the curriculum to 1,500 Iraqi police officers.