Course summary

Overview Explore and analyse areas critical to policing and investigation – such as criminal justice, the legal system and public protection – that you can use to: qualify for the degree-holder entry programme to the police service in England or Wales level up from your current role in the police to a senior or specialised role turn a general interest in policing into academic and professional expertise in policing and criminal investigation This BSc (Hons) Policing and Investigation degree course is a part-time, distance learning course, which you can study around your other commitments, anywhere that suits you. If you're planning a career in policing and related areas (such as investigative criminal profiling, police oversight bodies, or financial investigation in banking), you'll develop the practical skills you'll need in your future career. If you’re already a serving police officer, you'll specialise in areas that could enhance your contribution to your organisation, increasing your potential to level up in a new role and achieve a higher salary. Course highlights

• Transform a passion for the criminal justice system into a rewarding career, with optional modules to suit your ambitions such as cybercrime, forensic psychology, contemporary terrorism and rehabilitation

• Have the freedom to choose a final year project topic that suits your career goals – previous students have focused on areas including human trafficking, domestic abuse, terrorism, county lines drug trafficking and the retention of special constables

• Be taught by leading academics from the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, whose research areas include forensic interviewing and science, economic crime and cybercrime

• Have the chance to use on-the-job experience as proof of relevant prior learning to complete the course quicker

• the Probation Service

• the National Crime Agency

• Department for Work and Pensions – investigating fraud

• HMRC– investigating smuggling

• banks and financial institutions – investigating fraud

• insurance companies – investigating false claims

• legal firms – assisting in legal cases

• loss prevention and private security companies

• private investigation firms

• crime scene investigator

• police staff investigator within the Criminal Investigation Department (CID)

• intelligence analyst and researcher

• private investigator

• security analyst