Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 5
Pearson BTEC Level 5 Higher National Diploma in Policing
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 5
- Total credits120
- Guided learning480 hours
- Units in this qualification18
Awarded by Pearson Education Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Pearson Education Ltd registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Command and ControlReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explain police control room structure for dealing with incidents
- Describe the skills and abilities used by the police in controlling any given incident
- Demonstrate how to apply possible systems of control for different types of incident
- Demonstrate how to apply resource management and risk assessment in policing operations
Counter TerrorismReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the concept of terrorism and violent extremism and the threats to the United Kingdom
- Evaluate counter terrorism strategies used to prevent and disrupt terrorism and violent extremism
- Assess the main anti-terror legislaiton available to police and security services in countering terrorism
- Appraise the actions and responses available to the emergency services in the event of an ongoing terrorist incident
Crime Reduction and Community PolicingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Present an analysis of the impact of Evidence-Based policing on crime and community safety
- Explain strategies used by the police for the reduction of anti-social behaviour
- Explain interagency approaches to dealing with offenders
- Analyse the effects of crime on a community and how anti-social behaviour issues can be resolved
Criminal LawReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the general principles of criminal law and criminal law defences
- Illustrate the impact of laws relating to violence and the threat of violence to society
- Illustrate the impact of laws on loss or damage to property
- Define Breach of the Peace and Public Order Offences
Criminology - Practical Application for the Police ServiceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Use the main theories of psychology to explain criminal behaviour
- Use the main theories of sociology to analyse social inequality and criminal behaviour in a community
- Use psychological and sociological theories to inform own understanding of violent crime
- Demonstrate an appreciation of the role of the police service in prevention and control of crime and disorder
Emergency Planning and the Police ServiceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the role of a police officer in planning for major emergency situations
- Assess the role of emergency planning systems in major emergency situations
- Analyse the impact of emergency situations on those involved and the environment
- Analyse key elements of emergency plans
Equality and Diversity in the Police ServiceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explain what is discriminatory behaviour
- Explain how the equality needs of employees and the general public are met by police service organisations
- Analyse how promotion of equality and diversity can benefit the work of the police service
- Analyse what is a hate crime and what makes an offence racially or religiously aggravated
Government Interactions with the Police ServiceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse the impact of different levels of government on the police service
- Analyse how political decisions impact on the police service
- Explain how the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is formed and their roles and responsibilities
- Explain the roles and responsibilities of the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) and their relationship with the public and police and Her Majesties Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC)
Health and Safety Management in the Police ServiceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Apply health and safety legislation to police service operations
- Assess the importance of the management of health and safety in the police service
- Apply health and safety legislation through risk assessment
- Analyse health, safety and accident prevention strategies used by the police services
Investigation into Armed PolicingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge of the main firearms legislation for criminal use of firearms
- Illustrate what constitutes a firearm, part of a firearm or prohibited weapon
- Analyse when and how the police could use firearms
- Explain the training firearms officers are given and the types of firearms police use
Investigative SkillsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Apply principles, key theories and legislation to criminal investigation
- Analyse the requirements of effective scene management and professional forensic evidence gathering
- Explain the benefits of the manual of guidance forms used for file preparation and how it supports disclosure
- Demonstrate how to conduct an ethical and professional interview according to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
Leadership in PolicingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse the relationship between police structure and culture
- Compare different approaches to management and leadership
- Assess how leadership styles and application of motivational theories affect the police service workplace
- Assess the factors that can promote or inhibit effective teamwork in the police service and associated teams
Managing Police FinanceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse the sources of finance available to the police service
- Explain financial accountability in a policing context
- Explain how financial information is used by the policing sector to achieve its organisational objectives
- Assess the impact of external influences on police service finances
Police and the Criminal Justice SystemReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the composition and roles of the courts
- Explain the role of the Police and Crown Prosecution Service
- Describe how the judicial system is used for justice and punishment
- Explain ethical dilemmas surrounding sentencing
Roads PolicingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the main laws relating to vehicles, vehicle documentation and road traffic offences
- Analyse drug and drink drive offences and methods of detection and prevention
- Summarise the law relating to the use of vehicles for criminal purposes and anti-social behaviour on the roads and ethe effects of such use on the community
- Apply the practices of accident investigation vehicle examiners at the scene of road traffic collisions
Small-scale Research Project in PolicingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explain how information sources and data are used in small-scale police service research projects
- Analyse the use of research strategies in small-scale research projects for the police services
- Conduct a small-scale research project and communicate the research methodologies and findings
Technology and the Police ServicesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse the types of technology used in the police services
- Illustrate how police service technology is deployed to prevent crime or incidents
- Illustrate the impact of technology on the role of the police services
- Analyse future developments in police service technologies
Work-based ExperienceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the benefits of industry work experience
- Demonstrate achievement towards personal goals through planning and carrying out industry work experience
- Evaluate own performance and work-based learning
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 5 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
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Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Advise clients on the viability and consequences of carrying out investigations
- Contribute to the effectiveness of investigation teams
- Develop, maintain and evaluate emergency plans and arrangements
- Examine and assess individuals detained under road traffic legislation
- Finalise Investigations
- Handle Evidence Arising from Investigations
- Interview Suspects to Collect Information
- Investigate Sources of Information and Develop Intelligence for Investigations
Where this can lead
Junior Internal Investigations Analyst
Your journey starts here, learning the fundamentals. With dedication, a keen eye for detail, and a commitment to ethical conduct, you can build a truly impactful and rewarding career in internal investigations. We're here to help you get there.
See the whole journey →Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Pearson BTEC Level 5 Higher National Diploma in Policing
18 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Command and Control
- Counter Terrorism
- Crime Reduction and Community Policing
- Criminal Law
- Criminology - Practical Application for the Police Service
- Emergency Planning and the Police Service
and 12 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.