1. FDA in Policing – An Employer Perspective
Or Helping the Police with their Enquiries?
Inspector Chris Ward, Foundation Degree Project Manager, Thames Valley Police
Lindsay Cloughley, HE Coordinator, OCVC.
Agnes Hibbert, Liaison Manager
Richard Huggins, Associate Dean, SD.
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Oxford Brookes University

2. Overview Partnership Background Strategic Context
Developing the Foundation Degree Issues HE FE
TVP
Conclusions

3. Partnership background
1998 onwards – development of a range of projects with the Thames Valley Police.
Partnership working at Local Strategic Partnership Level
Strategic Commitment to the region and to community Engagement (Brookes)
Engagement with student population and wider community (TVP)
2000 – increased growth of collaborative working with the Police through membership of Oxford and wider Thames Valley area through broad social and policy interventions – DAATs, Single Regeneration Board, Communities Against Drugs, Crime and Disorder Audits, Health and Social Inclusion initiatives
Neighbourhood Policing approaches to local and area policing (ACPO/Centrex, 2006, Innes 2005, Johnston, 2005, Maguire and John, 2006, Tuffin et al., 2006)
the expectation of and opportunities provided by increased partnership working across different agencies and institutions
greater development of community engagement by public organisations (Home Office, 2005, McIlrath and Mac Labhrainn, 2007, MyHill, 2006)
Community Based Research Projects.
Collaborative working with Police, undergraduate students, the public and academic staff
Neighbourhood Policing: Public Perceptions of Crime, Disorder and Policing
Explored a range of key issues in relation to Neighbourhood Policing, notions of community, inclusion, individual and collective safety and security, anti-social behaviour and crime

4. Increased ‘professionalisation’ of the police.
STRATEGIC CONTEXTS
Increased ‘professionalisation’ of the police.
Increased emphasis on Evidence Based Policing
Increased emphasis on community engagement, diversity, civic role of the police
Procedural Justice

5. 196 4,202 750 507 Thames Valley Police 613 volunteers 2.2m population
THREE
COUNTIES
613 volunteers
2.2m population
2,200
square miles
SIX
MILLION
ANNUAL visitors
4,202
Police officers
2,744
staff
196
miles of motorway
750
Special Constables
507
Police community support officers
PCSOs
Diverse population 14
Local
Police Areas
108 neighbourhoods

6. Developing the Foundation Degree
Thames Valley Police working with three HE providers - Brookes, Bucks, Northampton
Issues:
Student numbers - recruitment
Requirement – impact on structure of programme
Procedures and language

7. Course Development and Delivery
Associate College Partnership
Collaborative curriculum development - OCVC/Brookes and Thames Valley Police.
Collaborative delivery.
On-going development of content and modes of delivery.

8. Conclusions
Complex process
Diverse organisational cultures
Shared objectives – but sometimes different emphasis
Expectation management
Variety of Stakeholders
Systems
New models of working