A national training programme for student police officers, designed to be tailored and delivered locally to accommodate the characteristics and specific needs of every force.
The design, development and maintenance of the IPLDP curriculum is based on the National Occupational Standards for Policing.
Completion of the IPLDP ensures that officers are competent at PIP Level 1. 

PIP Level 1 Specialist

Family Liaison Officer (Roads Policing)

This part of the Family Liaison Development Programme is aimed at officers who are specialised roads policing officers, PIP Level 1 qualified and occupationally competent.
The aim is to develop investigative ability whilst applying it to the role of a Family Liaison Officer in Road Death Investigation.
This programme is under development. 

This is addressed through the IPLDP for new to role staff and the PIP level 1 Standalone Course for existing staff.

PIP Level 1 Investigators may need to have enhanced interviewing skills and levels of competence dependant on their role and force policy.

PIP Level 2

Initial Crime Investigators Development Programme (ICIDP)

Equips investigators with the knowledge, understanding and skills to be able to conduct professional and objective investigations, in accordance with the National Occupational Standards (NOS).

Students will be able to:

• Plan and conduct serious and complex investigations
• Explain the key principles contained in the Practice Advice on Core Investigative Doctrine
• Plan, conduct and evaluate interviews with victims and witnesses in serious and complex investigations
• Plan, conduct and evaluate interviews with suspects  in serious and complex investigations
• Present evidence at Court and at other hearings.

This programme was re published in March 2007.

PIP Level 2

Detective Inspectors Development Programme (DIDP)

Sets out the performance related learning outcomes for investigators who, not only conduct Serious and Complex enquiries (as at PIP level 2) but who may, because of local deployment demands manage the initial response to a major incident before handing over to a PIP level 3 investigator.
It is aimed at investigators usually Detective Inspector (DI)or Detective Chief Inspector (DCI) who perform the call out role and are likely to carry out the initial investigation of major crimes.

This course element is delivered by various forces.

PIP Level 2 Specialist

Family Liaison Officer (Major Crime and Mass Fatality)

 Develops investigative ability whilst applying it to the role of a Family Liaison Officer in complex and major investigation (Major Crime, Mass Fatality, Deaths Abroad). 
The programme focuses on the work of the Family Liaison Officer, who is PIP Level 2, and whose role as an investigator is to:

• Analyse the needs, concerns and expectations of the "Family" in order to identify relevant and realistic action that should be taken, in the context of their human rights and the obligations set out in the Family Liaison Guidelines
• To work with the "Family"to ensure they receive all relevant information connected with the enquiry, subject to the needs of the investigation, while seeking to gather information and evidence from them which assists the investigation, in a way that reflects their right to privacy and family life.

PIP Level 2 Specialist

Managing and Co-ordinating Interviews for Complex or Major Investigations
Interview Advisor Development Programme

Aims to develop the ability of an investigative interviewer to manage, advise and co-ordinate interviews for complex or major investigations.  It focuses on the work of the Interview Advisor / Manager, whose role is to assist an Investigating Officer or Senior Investigating Officer to manage an interview strategy and the processes arising from it.

The intended learners are those who are performing, or who have been selected to perform, the role of Interview Adviser. Thus it is open to police officers, police staff, police volunteers and external consultants who are employed for this function but subject to certain entry criteria as stipulated in the Programme Overview, and is not restricted to a particular rank or grade.

PIP Level 3

Senior Investigating Officers Development Programme (SIODP)

 Enables candidates to attain registration as a Level 3 Investigator by achieving occupational competence in the management of major investigation.
Students will be able to:

• Apply a robust and universal investigative methodology to the management of major crime investigations
• Demonstrate the effective management of the initial response to major investigations
• Recognise the benefits of the involvement of individuals, families and communities to major crime investigations
• Demonstrate co-operative working practices with other agencies, partnerships and communities
• Demonstrate the effective management of family liaison
• Demonstrate effective and efficient resource management
• Co-ordinate the gathering of material (information, intelligence and evidence) to support major crime investigations
• Co-ordinate the effective recording and retention of material for use in major crime investigations
• Demonstrate accountability by recording investigative decisions
• Use advances in forensic science to support major crime investigations
• Justify decision and actions in proceedings
• Review decisions in light of emerging facts
• Demonstrate effective evaluation of the performance of self and of the investigation team.

A programme for learning, development and assessment of SIO's at PIP Level 3 has been developed.

The course element of the programme is delivered by various forces and at NPIA Wyboston.