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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Pearson Education Ltd has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Pearson Education Ltd awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Pearson Education Ltd.
The qualification enables learners to develop in-depth knowledge and skills relevant to the uniformed protective services. Units cover topics such as physical fitness, health and wellbeing, global affairs, and emergency incident planning. It is suited for individuals seeking advanced preparation for employment in public service roles.
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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Behaviour and Discipline in the Uniformed Protective Services Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of principle psychological perspectives and their impact on behaviours
- Apply knowledge and understanding of behaviour and discipline within uniformed protective services
- Analyse authority, obedience, conformity and theories of behaviour and their impact within the uniformed protective services
- Make connections and judgements between behaviours, theory and practice within uniformed protective services
Citizenship and Diversity (Pearson-set) Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explore the key features of society and their relevance to the protective services.
- Explore the rights and responsibilities of individuals and the protective services within society.
- Investigate the role of protective services in ensuring equality of service for all members of society.
- Investigate the changes occurring in society and their potential impact on both citizens and the protective services.
Criminal Investigation Procedures and Practice Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the processes that must be followed throughout a criminal investigation by the responsible uniformed protective services
- Explore the investigative methods used in criminal investigations
- Identify the resources available for use in criminal investigations
- Analyse different types of evidence used in criminal investigations
- Investigate the procedures used to secure a crime scene
- Investigate the procedures used to preserve evidence at a crime scene
Custodial Care Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Examine the various security measures employed within a custodial environment.
- Investigate how control is effectively maintained within the custodial environment.
- Explore the standard receiving and discharging procedures for individuals and their property within a custodial setting.
- Understand how offenders are managed and supported both during their time in custody and upon their release.
Developing Personal Fitness Programmes Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Review a personal fitness training programme to meet the fitness requirements of a uniformed protective services role
- Carry out a training programme that improves personal fitness for a role in the uniformed protective services
- Review the success of a training programme for meeting the personal fitness requirements of a uniformed protective services role
Expedition Skills Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explore the development of different expeditions and their purposes.
- Plan and undertake an expedition to meet set objectives.
- Review own planning and undertaking of an expedition.
Global Affairs, the Media and the Uniformed Protective Services Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explore the relationship between global affairs and the media
- Assess the impact of media coverage of global affairs on the UK uniformed protective services
- Communicate a response to a specified global affairs incident
Government and the Protective Services Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the scope of protective services, the roles of parliament, other levels of government and non-government bodies, the processes involved in establishing legislation and sources of funding.
- Apply knowledge and understanding of the scope of protective services, the roles of parliament, other levels of government, and non-government bodies, the processes involved in establishing legislation and sources of funding in practical scenarios.
- Analyse the purpose of the protective services, the responsibilities of parliament, other levels of government and non-government bodies, and the impact of funding, accountability and policy development processes.
- Make connections and judgements between the policy development process, separation of powers, the impact of policies, accountability mechanisms, and the overall impact on service delivery within the protective services.
Introduction to Criminology Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Examine the effects of crime on individuals, communities, the uniformed protective services and other public services.
- Explore the methods used by the uniformed protective services and other public services to prevent crime and punish offenders.
- Investigate the support provided by the uniformed protective services and other public services to victims and witnesses of crime.
Physical Preparation, Health and Wellbeing Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explore components of fitness and the effect of different methods of training on body systems
- Examine lifestyle factors that are important in maintaining health and wellbeing
- Carry out tests for personal fitness levels and fitness requirements for entry to the uniformed protective services
- Design a fitness programme that meets personal fitness goals for entry to the uniformed protective services
Planning for and Responding to Emergency Incidents Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Examine different types of emergency incidents that may occur
- Analyse the roles and responsibilities of the uniformed protective services in responding to emergency incidents
- Plan a response to a simulated emergency incident, taking into account the potential impacts of the incident
- Implement an emergency response plan in a simulated scenario
- Adapt the emergency response plan to the specific circumstances encountered during the simulated emergency incident
- Review the implemented emergency response plan against a similar real-world case
- Identify areas for development and improvement in future emergency response plans
Police Powers and the Law Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Examine the legal framework surrounding the powers of the police to tackle criminal behaviour.
- Investigate the various roles undertaken by the personnel of the courts.
- Explore the criminal trial process to be followed once an individual has been charged with an offence.
Principles of Managing Security Threats Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate the main security threats currently facing the UK protective services, how these threats are managed, and the potential impact of security failures.
- Understand the specific threats arising from terrorism and the use of counter-terrorist measures by the protective services.
- Plan a suitable protective services response to a given security threat scenario.
Professional Development in the Uniformed Protective Services Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate career and job opportunities in the uniformed protective services.
- Explore own skills, using a skills audit, to inform a career development action plan.
- Undertake a recruitment activity to demonstrate the processes that can lead to a successful job offer in a selected career pathway.
- Reflect on the recruitment and selection process and own individual performance.
Research Skills in the Uniformed Protective Services Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a research plan for a uniformed protective services project, including clear aims and objectives
- Identify appropriate data collection methods for the selected project
- Carry out data collection in accordance with the research plan
- Interpret the collected data to identify key findings
- Produce a structured research project report on a uniformed protective services theme, presenting findings and conclusions
Skills for Outdoor Activities and the Uniformed Protective Services Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Examine the requirements and personal skills needed for participation in outdoor activities
- Develop skills and techniques and apply safety requirements for participation in outdoor activities
- Reflect on own practical performance in selected outdoor activities and how this will support own future career
Sociological Perspectives Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate the sociological theories that form the basis of sociology as a science
- Examine the research methods used by sociologists to arrive at their findings
- Explore the impact of sociological theory and research on the social policies that determine the work of the uniformed protective services
Teamwork, Leadership and Communication in the Uniformed Protective Services Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explore different teamwork and leadership styles used within the uniformed protective services.
- Explore relevant theories and techniques used for the development of effective uniformed protective services teams.
- Demonstrate the use of communication methods and systems relevant to the uniformed protective services.
- Apply team working and leadership skills effectively within various uniformed protective services contexts.
Technological Systems to Support Service Delivery Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate the information and communication technology (ICT) systems used by the uniformed protective services
- Explore the impact of cybercrime on the uniformed protective services
- Analyse how ICT is used to meet the challenges posed by cybercrime
- Research the legal requirements that the uniformed protective services must follow when using ICT
- Research the security requirements that the uniformed protective services must follow when using ICT
Understanding the Third Sector Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate the development of the Third Sector in the UK
- Analyse the support that the Third Sector provides to the uniformed protective services
- Research the importance of the Third Sector to the community
- Research the availability of the Third Sector to the community
- Identify different types of voluntary activity within the Third Sector
- Explore volunteering opportunities within the Third Sector
- Plan for participation in a voluntary activity
- Participate in a voluntary activity
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
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Carry out legal process serving
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Develop, maintain and evaluate emergency plans and arrangements
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Direct and facilitate exercises to practice or validate emergency or business continuity arrangements
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Execute the emergency response plan
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Maintain a state of readiness to respond to emergencies
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Respond to emergencies at the operational (bronze) level
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Respond to emergencies at the tactical (silver) level
The jobs these credits are mapped to
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Where this can lead
Emergency Ops Coordinator
This role can lead to work as a Senior Emergency Planner or an Emergency Operations Manager, taking on more planning and leadership as experience builds.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Pearson Education Ltd rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Behaviour and Discipline in the Uniformed Protective ServicesCitizenship and Diversity (Pearson-set)Criminal Investigation Procedures and PracticeCustodial CareDeveloping Personal Fitness ProgrammesExpedition SkillsGlobal Affairs, the Media and the Uniformed Protective ServicesGovernment and the Protective Services
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Coach · your practice partner Illustration - Rehearse the conversation Apply
“Behaviour and Discipline in the Uniformed Protective Services” is a conversation before it is a document. You have it with Zavmo playing the other person, badly at first, then again once you know what you actually want to say.
- Bring your own plan Create
For “Developing Personal Fitness Programmes” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Draft the real one Create
You do “Criminal Investigation Procedures and Practice” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Research Skills in the Uniformed Protective Services” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Carry out legal process serving
- Develop, maintain and evaluate emergency plans and arrangements
- Direct and facilitate exercises to practice or validate emergency or business continuity arrangements
- Execute the emergency response plan
- Maintain a state of readiness to respond to emergencies
- Respond to emergencies at the operational (bronze) level
- Respond to emergencies at the tactical (silver) level
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Behaviour and Discipline in the Uniformed Protective Services, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will study key psychological perspectives such as behaviourism, cognitive psychology, and social learning theory, and their influence on behaviour within uniformed protective services. The unit covers codes of conduct, disciplinary procedures, and analyses authority, obedience, and conformity in relation to behaviour and discipline.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma in Uniformed Protective Services
20 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Behaviour and Discipline in the Uniformed Protective Services
- Citizenship and Diversity (Pearson-set)
- Criminal Investigation Procedures and Practice
- Custodial Care
- Developing Personal Fitness Programmes
- Expedition Skills
and 14 more in the full unit list below.
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