Career & learning

Information and training to help increase your policing skills, get a promotion or change roles.

National Centre for Police Leadership

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Career development

Ways to move through the police service by improving your skills, seeking promotion and pursuing specialist roles

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Joining the police


Different routes to enter policing, whether as an officer, staff or volunteer

Go to joining the police

Senior leadership


Senior leaders and chief officer development opportunities and chief officer appointments

Go to senior development

Taking exams online

General practical guidance for candidates and links to the national police promotion framework (NPPF) sergeants' and inspectors' exams, and the national investigators' exam (NIE)

What you need to know

Learning

Digital intelligence and investigation

How the College delivers operationally focused learning resources for everyone in policing

Go to DII

College Learn


Access the College's online learning. You will need to sign up to this service

Go to College Learn

Policing education qualifications framework (PEQF)

Creating a consistent, high standard of training for all police officers

Go to PEQF

Courses, programmes and other learning

Find and book courses, programmes and other College-run learning

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Immersive learning

How we use Hydra in the Cloud to simulate critical incident management and practice decision-making.

Go to immersive learning

Other learning and development information

This section is under development. We'll be moving more information over soon.

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