Hot Spots Policing for PCs and PCSOs
Cambridge Online Course for PCs and PCSOs
This course is now available online. Learners can experience this Cambridge course from their own desks, removing the need for travel and accommodation, and empowering them to take the course alongside their daily operational duties.
Learners can work through lectures and readings at their own pace within a 16-week period. The online course includes a one-on-one live video session with a personal tutor, and a oral assessment at the end of the course.
Learners who pass the assessment are invited to our annual graduation ceremony at Cambridge at no charge*.
Hot Spots Policing for PCs and PCSOs
The Cambridge Online Course for PCs and PCSOs
Challenge. How do we identify and target the people and places at highest risks of serious violence? How do we update those forecasts, every day, to better use police resources to prevent crime? The answer lies in more evidence-based crime analysis for proactive strategies that do not undermine legitimacy and deliver “just right policing”.
Objectives. This online course, spread across 16 weeks from each learner’s enrolment date, will help PCs and PCSOs undertsand and apply the best practice in Hot Spots policing to use ‘soft policing tactics’ to reduce violent crime and improve legitimacy.
Faculty. The Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing faculty teaching this 30-hour**, online course includes the following instructors set out below.
The course was created and the content recorded and prepared under the leadership of Professor Lawrence Sherman, Wolfson Professor Emeritus, University of Cambridge, and Honorary President, Society of Evidence-Based Policing. This was shortly before before he left the Cambridge Centre to take up a position in the Metropolitan Police Service as their new Chief Scientific Officer at the start of October 2022.
The Faculty are:
Professor Jerry Ratcliffe of Temple University, author of Intelligence-Led Policing
Prof. Barak Ariel, experimentalist on serious offenders & hotspots, University of Cambridge;
Dr. Justice Tankebe, police legitimacy analyst, University of Cambridge;
Dr. Matthew Bland, former Head of Strategic Analysis for Norfolk and Suffolk Constabularies and Lecturer in Evidence-Based Policing, University of Cambridge;
Dr. Sara Valdebenito, Violence Research Centre, University of Cambridge;
Kent McFadzien, embedded Cambridge Centre Criminologist at Kent Police, UK;
Detective Chief Superintended (Retd.) Simon Rose , Cambridge Centre for Evidenced-Based Policing
Tutorial. Every delegate is assigned a personal tutor for a one-on-one live tutorial and an end of course oral assessment. All graduates are invited to our annual graduation ceremony in Cambridge at no charge*.
Cost.
The fee for 16-week access to the online course is £345 (+ VAT where applicable) per learner.
The Cambridge Centre is pleased to receive, with immediate effect, Purchase Orders and Registrations for this online course. Learners can register now and commence the course at a time that suits them, in agreement with their tutor.
This course is open to all present and aspiring police professionals who wish to understand recent developments in knowledge and techniques for hot spot policing of democratically-governed police agencies, both in the UK and abroad.
The Cambridge Centre has been advised that police forces in England and Wales receiving Home Office special funding for serious violence may assign the cost of this course to that funding.
Once payment has been received, each learner agree an enrolment date. The week prior to the agreed enrolment date, the learner receives the enrolment and tutor details. From enrolment date, each learner has 16 weeks to complete the course and assessment process, to be scheduled in consultation with each learner’s tutor.
*Travel and accommodation not included.
** This is only the approximate number of hours that it would take a learner to complete the course.