The policing education qualifications framework: A block to recruitment or a natural evolution?

9th February 2023Georg Tangen, Senior Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University 5 Comments

The Home Secretary’s recent call for a review of entry methods into UK policing is the latest twist in the policing degree debate; Nottingham Trent University lecturers Georg Tangen and Phil Rudkin, both former police officers, argue that the consensus of evidence to date shows policing does benefit from a degree level of education, and that the ‘loudest dissenters’ of the degree programme may be representative of the most criticised policing cultures and attitudes.