Policing with Procedural Justice

Cambridge Online Procedural Justice Course

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 two separate one-on-one live video session with a personal tutor.

Learners who pass the assessment are invited to our annual graduation ceremony at Cambridge at no charge*.

Policing with Procedural Justice

Cambridge online Procedural Justice Course

Who is the course for?

The course is aimed at front line officers and supervisors who are responsible for the delivery of operational policing in their area. It is also suitable for for leaders who want to deliver policing services in a more procedurally just way to reap the benefits that this delivers, improved trust and confidence in Policing, more support from the public, less use of force, more legitimacy, improved workforce morale.

Aims and objectives of the course.

Students will leave the course with an understanding of:

·        The drivers of Legitimacy and Procedural Justice and how they fit together.

·        How to measure Procedural Justice in the delivery of policing.

·        What works, what does not work, and what is the difference in apparently similar approaches that success and fail?

·        What are the benefits that can be expected from a more procedurally just approach?

·        How to set up a localised program to coach, measure and evidence the success of a procedurally just approach in high volume policing interactions.

Course Structure

The course comes in seven sections. There are tutorials at section five and section seven.

Section one: An introduction to the course, learner guide, how to use the platform, links to further reading and a detailed set out of the course structure including the duration of each lecture and size of each reading to assist individual scheduling around work commitments.

Section two:  The course begins by providing an introduction to the constituent parts of Legitimacy, Procedural Justice and Confidence in Policing.

The introduction also covers how these concepts overlap and how they relate to each other as well as the underpinning concepts within evidence-based policing.

Section three: This is a deeper dive into the underpinning academic theory behind Legitimacy, Self-Legitimacy and Procedural Justice, as well as the presentation of a meta-analysis of the research into procedural Justice.

 A meta-analysis is a quantitative, formal, epidemiological study design used to systematically assess the results of previous research to derive conclusions about that body of research. Typically, but not necessarily, the study is based on randomized, controlled clinical trials.)

Section four: This section presents eleven separate experiments that have been conducted on Police Legitimacy, Procedural Justice and Confidence in Policing. These experiments take place in Australia, England, Scotland, the USA and Turkey.

The experiments take place in the context of stop and search, airport security, police complaints, police traffic enforcement, high visibility policing, telephone investigations and suspended prosecution initiatives.

By presenting case studies, we explain how Procedural Justice initiatives have been designed, delivered, and evaluated.  We pick apart the detail of the training, methodology and implementation plans. We help students understand what has worked, why things are likely to work and in what circumstances they are likely to fail.

Section five: A one to one live tutorial to discuss in depth, the course, the experiments, the theory, and the challenges of implementation.

Section six:  Operationalising Procedural Justice, what is good and reliable evidence, how you can critically evaluate claims, how to measure Procedural Justice, and planning your own Procedural Justice Initiative.

Section six concludes with three links to recordings of actual footage of police-citizen encounters. The student is asked to watch the three videos and prepare notes on their assessment of relative delivery of the four pillars of procedural justice in each video. These notes will be of use in the second tutorial where the videos will be discussed.

Section seven: The second tutorial. In the second tutorial there is a discussion of the three videos, what was missing, what could be improved and what an effective supervisory intervention might look like. The second tutorial is also an opportunity to discuss with your tutor how you might apply a Procedural Justice approach to an element of Policing in your Force, what barriers you see and how you might overcome them.

 

 

Faculty

Tutorial. Every delegate is assigned a personal tutor for two separate one-on-one live tutorials. 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 £460 (+ 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.

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.