This episode looks at higher education and policing where officers in England and Wales now join the police with a degree, gain a degree on joining, or even join and not gain any formal qualifications.

Tom Andrews, former police sergeant and officer for 13 years and now Lecturer in Policing from the University of Derby joins us to discuss the origins, the politics, and the current landscape of the policing degree discussion. Researched and published in this subject area, Tom has widely spoken on social media about degrees in policing and tells all there is about the benefits of higher education for police officers, what the critics rhetoric is on the subject, and that it’s perhaps the ‘Degree’ word that might be the issue.

For those on the policing degree entry routes, thinking
of joining the police on one, or cynical of police officers now undergoing higher education the evidence base is here adding to the call for the professionalisation of policing in the UK.

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