ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on reflective practice as the means by which professional standards can be achieved within policing. It is argued that reflective practice builds upon, and recognises, the existing professionalism of the service, whilst at the same time allowing for further development to ensure police services embrace evidence based practice. It can also be argued that the demands of evidence based policing (EBP) and the introduction of the Policing Education Qualifications Framework (PEQF) require the embedding of reflective practice at the level of police practitioners, within police organisations and across society. This requires both the service and learners to think of professional standards within policing in aspirational terms and to emphasise the human dimension of the professionalism agenda in policing.
