CPD resources for response officers

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Published on 16 March 2021
Written by Inspector Tonya Cook, College of Policing frontline policing advisor
More than 50 videos, e-learning, models and guidance from our frontline policing advisor
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  • This article was updated on 8 June 2022.

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Career progression

Watch our films on the ways you can progress your response policing career as you gain skills and experience on the job.

'I get to do lots of continuing professional development through my own organisation or through the College of Policing so I get to do all the extra training. And the training I get is second to none,' says Inspector James Oliver.

Every minute of PC Dai Holmes' job as a response officer on the front line is challenging, rewarding and different, where for him policing is 'a second family'.

    Wellbeing resources

    Oscar Kilo is the home of the national police wellbeing service with lots of useful resources and tools.

    Free eight-week mindfulness course
    Five webinars on how to sleep better
    Resilience check-ins, webinars and toolkits from the NPCC response policing week

    Investigation

    Golden hour training: APP
    Investigation: APP
    An hour to catch a killer: ITV documentary showing golden hour actions
    Obtaining initial accounts: College of Policing guidance
    Criminal justice process: APP
    Suspects or defendants with mental health conditions or disorders: CPS
    Victims or witnesses with mental health conditions or disorders: CPS
    Disclosure: Charging and case preparation: APP
    Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996
    Disclosure: updates to the Attorney General’s Guidelines: College Learn
    Disclosure and relevancy: Conducting fair investigations: College Learn

    Reference

    The Front Line Review: Recommendation report
    National decision model: APP
    National decision model: 15 minute e-learning from College Learn
    Crime reduction toolkit: College of Policing

    Initial attendance

    Sudden death and delivering the death message: four College Learn e-learning mo…
    Framework for adults who go missing from health and care settings
    Rape: myth and reality: 30-minute College Learn e-learning
    Rape: The initial response: 45-minute College Learn e-learning
    Responding to child sexual exploitation (CSE): APP
    Policing adolescent vulnerability CSE: 28-minute College Learn e-learning
    Initial response: 40-minute College Learn e-learning
    'Horse trading': 10-minute video depicting the trade in people
    Abusive relationship: 30-minute College Learn e-learning
    Missing daughter: 25-minute College Learn e-learning
    Vulnerability – look beyond the obvious: four-minute College Learn video
    Modern slavery awareness: 30-minute College Learn e-learning
    Vulnerability – Gordon (domestic abuse and hate crime): 60-minute College Learn…
    Coercive control – victim comments: three-minute College Learn video
    EHRC Report: Hidden in plain sight: 10-minute College Learn e-briefing
    First actions at scene of sudden or unexpected death: Aide memoire

    Digital

    Digital policing foundation level one: College Learn
    Operation Modify: improving digital thinking – College Learn e-learning episodes
    Obtaining content from digital devices: APP

    Powers

    Stop and search: APP
    Stop and search: two-minute College Learn video
    Pace code G necessity to arrest revision: 30-minute College Learn e-learning
    Conflict management: College of Policing guidance
    Policing elections: APP
    Mental health: APP
    National strategy on policing and mental health: NPCC
    Stop and search – Introduction: College Learn e-learning

    Legislation

    Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014

    Risk assessment

    Risk principles: APP
    Understanding risk and vulnerability in the context of domestic abuse: APP
    Domestic abuse introduction: APP

    Awareness

    Acid and corrosive substances: APP
    Initial response to emergency (JESIP): 45-minute College Learn e-learning
    Action counters terrorism (ACT): College Learn e-learning course
    Stay safe: College Learn aide memoire
    Intellectual Property Crime Awareness Programme: College Learn

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