ABSTRACT
A coherent strategy for promoting leadership, professional standards, professional development and training should underpin any occupational discipline seeking to claim the elevated status of a ‘profession’. This has become a recent focus of the United Kingdom government with respect to policing: following a detailed review by Chief Constable Peter Neyroud of existing arrangements and future needs for Britain’s police (see Chapter 4). Specifically plans were announced to establish a new College of Policing in the UK Its objectives will be to:
protect the public interest, enhance policing standards, identify evidence of what works in policing and share best practice … support the education and professional development of staff and officers and … motivate the police and partners to work together to achieve a shared purpose, including taking a major role in shaping the work of the higher education sector to improve the broader body of evidence on which policing professionals rely.
(Home Office 2012)