Curriculum Design

The full suite of IPLDP materials, covering all modules, is available to police officers via the National Centre for Applied Learning Technologies (NCALT), Managed Learning Environment (MLE). These materials are maintained and uploaded on a weekly basis and are improved in response to feedback from forces. Please visit the e-learning page for more details.

A recent improvement to these resources are the 'Quick Notes'.  The Quick Notes are an abridged version of the full student notes containing key points, definitions and diagrams. These can be accessed via the MLE.

In conjunction with Merseyside Police, we are making available the full suite of IPLDP student notes in an audio MP3 format. This will benefit all students but specifically those with learning difficulties. Release date to follow.

The IPLDP has been aligned to other programmes such as Professionalising the Investigation Process (PIP) Level 1. This means that all students who complete IPLDP using our materials will be trained to that level. Following recommendations from the Forensics 21 team (Forensic Training for the 21st Century), the Complaints and Discipline Project and the Public Protection Project, enhancements have been made to the programme.

The Police Community Support Officers (PCSO) programme is also available through the MLE, with a full range of trainer materials, student notes and Quick Notes.  Where appropriate these resources are identical to IPLDP materials ensuring cohesion.  They also transfer across from one programme to another simplifying Accreditation of Prior Learning (APEL).

Quality Assurance

Each force is required to validate their IPLDP against the Quality Assurance Framework addressing actions and sharing noteworthy practice. There are three stages:

Stage 1 - Forces agree to validate their IPLDP against the Framework. They agree to address any actions to meet the requirements, sharing noteworthy practice.

Stage 2 - The force at this stage is validated against 22 of the 41 policy implications contained within the IPLDP Quality Assurance Framework. All forces have now achieved this.

Stage 3 - The force is validated against the full framework.

By May 2009, twelve forces had been validated against the full framework, Stage 3, and had been signed off. A further seventeen have been validated and are addressing actions.

Our 2009/10 work plan will bring the remaining fourteen forces through this process in the next year.

Evaluation

32 Home Office forces have responded to questionnaires to evaluate the students' experience at Pre-Induction, Induction, Community Placement, Supervised Patrol and Independent Patrol.

We are also engaged in research on Community Engagement and Professional Development Units (PDUs). Interim reports have been written in all these areas and shared with stakeholders - this work is ongoing.

Assessment

Assessment guidance and templates are available via the MLE and provide a source to gather evidence against the following:

• 22 National Occupational Standards (NOS) - the responsibility for these and the overall approach to assessment is with Skills for Justice
• Seven behaviours
• Police Action Checklist (PAC's)
• Three Learning Development Reviews (LDRs)

In order to ensure compatibility with NVQ NOS recording requirements, these documents have been approved by City and Guilds and Oxford Cambridge and RSA Examinations (OCR), as being compatible with their policies of evidence recording.

In order to support classroom assessment of the knowledge and understanding elements, we co-ordinate and manage a team of trained force writers who produce questions that can be distributed to all forces for student officer development. Four question discs have been released to forces with a fifth disc pending release.

The Spring 2009 - Volume 7 release of IPLDP Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) has been distributed to forces week commencing 25 May 2009 and new guidance to forces is now available on the use of MCQ's for Learning and Development during IPLDP.

Forces who wish to take part in the IPLDP MCQ Scheme may nominate a delegate to attend the next MCQ writer training course taking place at NPIA Harrogate 28 September - 1 October 2009.

For any more information concerning the above please contact Hannah Crawley or Helen Pegnall.

If you require any further information regarding the Forces Guidance Documents or the Student Officer Guidance Documents please contact us

Resources

Stocktake

The IPLDP Central Authority commissioned the NPIA to carry out a stocktake of IPLDP in April, 2008. The aim of the stocktake is to review progress in implementation and to support improvements in the programme. For further information please download the document.