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Policing

Through our relationship with regional police forces and practitioners, you’ll have the best possible start in this rewarding profession.

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Criminology and Policing

Undergraduate - BA (Hons)

Study in:
Cambridge
Available as:
3 years full-time
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4 years with foundation year
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4 years with placement
Course features
  • Jump-start your career in the criminal justice sector
  • Opportunities to work closely with local police forces
  • Enhance your professional CV with a semester abroad
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Policing and Criminal Justice

Undergraduate - BSc (Hons)

Study in:
Chelmsford
Available as:
3 years full-time
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4 years with foundation
,
4 years with placement
Course features
  • Prepare for an exciting and rewarding career in policing or criminal justice
  • Debate today’s most pressing issues and examine the trial process
  • Opportunities with local police forces and criminal justice practitioners
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Professional Policing Practice

Undergraduate - BSc (Hons)

Degree apprenticeship

Study in:
Blended learning
Available as:
3 years
Course features
  • Become a police officer with your chosen East of England police force
  • A real policing job with hands-on experience, combining practical on-the-job training with academic learning
  • Begin an exciting and rewarding career like no other
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Professional Policing Practice

Undergraduate - BSc (Hons)

Degree apprenticeship

Study in:
Blended learning
Available as:
3 years
Course features
  • Become a police officer with the Metropolitan Police Service
  • World-class training as part of a supportive and passionate police force
  • Provides the foundation for an exciting and varied policing career
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Contemporary Policing

Postgraduate - MA : PG Cert Fellowship

Study in:
Chelmsford
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Blended learning
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Cambridge
Available as:
2 years part-time
Course features
  • This course has been designed to address key issues and challenges facing policing today
  • Developed for serving police officers and staff
  • This course is a blended learning degree. Most of your work will be carried out online
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Degree Holder Entry Programme

Postgraduate - Graduate Diploma

Degree Holder Entry Programme

Study in:
Blended learning
Available as:
2 years
Accredited by:
In partnership with the East of England 7 Forces
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Degree Holder Entry Programme

Postgraduate - Graduate Diploma

Detective Degree Holder Entry Programme

Study in:
Blended learning
Available as:
2 years
Accredited by:
In partnership with Bedfordshire Police, Cambridgeshire Constabulary and Hertfordshire Constabulary
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Degree Holder Entry Programme

Postgraduate - Graduate Diploma

Degree Holder Entry Programme

Study in:
Blended learning
Available as:
2 years
Course features
  • Become a police officer with the Metropolitan Police Service
  • World-class training as part of a supportive and passionate police force
  • Embark on an exciting and rewarding career in policing
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We're here Monday-Thursday 9am-5pm (please note we close at 3.30pm on the first and third Thursday of the month for staff training), and Friday 9am-4.30pm.

Here at ARU, we'll help you develop the knowledge, skills and experience you need to make a difference as part of the evolving police service.

Supported by our expert, experienced staff, you'll explore the key issues affecting the police service in our rapidly changing society, developing expertise in using new forms of technology, evidence-based policing and innovation.

You’ll also enhance your problem-solving, communication, negotiation, leadership and research skills.

Our Policing Institute for the Eastern Region works on cutting-edge research projects, exploring the latest debates in policing and you’ll be able to attend high profile guest lectures by experts and serving officers.

Whether you want to study for a degree on campus before entering the police force, combine work as a police officer and study with our degree apprenticeship or degree holder entry routes, or advance your existing career in the police with a postgraduate qualification, you'll graduate ready to make a difference.

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Find out how you can make a positive impact as a police officer.

Two new routes to becoming a police officer

We're proud to be working with eight police forces across the East and South East of England and London to recruit and educate new police officers through two new entry routes into policing – the Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship (PCDA) and Degree Holder Entry Programme (DHEP).

Find out more about the new routes

"We study the impact of crime through as many lenses as we need to try and help us understand a problem or social issue."

Colleen Moore

Principal Lecturer, Criminology

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