The Police Now Frontline Leadership Programme is a one-year leadership development programme which prepares police officers with high potential for promotion to leadership roles. The programme is open to all eligible officers from our partner forces who are aiming to progress from constable to sergeant rank.
The programme consists of five in-person taught days, with online learning modules between each taught day designed to consolidate and implement your learning, with support from your dedicated Progression and Development Officer throughout.
The taught days are designed to progressively build your skillset to help you achieve promotion, improve your operational competence, and prepare you to become an outstanding policing leader of the future.
The programme is focused on developing your potential regardless of background or career route. It’s a programme for police officers who want to positively change the destiny of communities, leading from the front in ways that build trust and confidence in our police service.
It supports talented police officers from all backgrounds and pays particular attention to the barriers often faced by officers from underrepresented groups.
We equip you with the essential knowledge and understanding of how to navigate the promotion process.
You’ll work to understand your force-specific promotion process with support from your Police Now Progression and Development Officer. You’ll have opportunities to take part in skills practice sessions, coming away with the foundational knowledge you’ll need to be successful in the promotion process.
This includes a solid understanding of the National Policing Promotion Framework and the Competency & Values Framework, and how to practically structure and apply this.
We build on your existing operational experience with the knowledge and tools you’ll need to demonstrate the competencies needed for promotion. You’ll be supported by your Progression and Development Officer to actively seek out opportunities to fill any operational gaps that you identify through your skills and knowledge gap analysis.
The programme will embed important skills such as:
You’ll have time to practise these skills and get targeted feedback to build your confidence and competence.
We focus on developing a culture of leadership and innovation to tackle long-standing policing challenges in communities challenged by crime.
You’ll develop your own authentic leadership style, with practical takeaways to help you implement your learning from day one on the job and beyond. You’ll develop skills that will support you in utilising your network and leading change within your force and community.
The programme is designed to create a sense of insurgency and urgency. We’ll help inspire and renew your drive to continue your own development and progress to lead change in policing.
Dynamic and purposeful, the induction event will focus on creating a sense of urgency for development, delivered through an immersive and high-energy learning experience. Emphasising and reflecting on previous activities during the application process, this event will help the promotion process come-to-life.
The first of five online learning modules. This should take you around an hour to complete.
It covers:
This is all about preparing you for your journey towards promotion and starting to explore your own leadership style.
During the day you will also learn skills around presenting and delivering briefings, culminating in a group presentation on a topic linked to the themes of the Frontline Leadership Programme.
By the end you will:
This module is all about delving inside yourself to understand your motivations and values.
Once you have done this you can explore ways in which you can seamlessly interact with others, and techniques to manage conflicts with others.
This is all about discovering how you will operate as a leader and giving you a chance to practice the skills that you learned on Taught Day 1 for in preparation for your promotion process.
By the end you will:
You will learn to understand what it means to be a coach and mentor, what you can do to ensure that your staff feel supported and methods that you can use to help them through their own personal development.
This input will also include guidance on how to hold one-to-one meetings and performance reviews.
This will focus on putting together a skillset that will enable you to be an outstanding leader. The day is aimed at managing your team.
By the end you will:
This module is all about identifying and resolving conflict, understanding when conflict may occur, and exploring the reasons why.
You will refresh your de-escalation techniques and skills for having difficult conversations with your team members.
You will be involved in Police Now’s large-scale, interactive, table-top exercise Operation Ducibus.
During the day you will work with your colleagues to take on the role of a sergeant and will undertake a series of tasks revolving around planning and implementing your response to unfolding events.
Operation Ducibus features a fully interactive audio/visual experience that will immerse you in the scenario and give you chance to develop your leadership and management skills.
By the end you will:
This module explores some of the history of police community relations.
You will learn to evaluate and act on potential issues before they escalate and how to remain informed on community relations to be a better public servant.
This is all about planning for the future and how you can have a positive impact on policing culture when you are promoted.
By the end you will:
We partner with police forces across England and Wales. Participating forces will select a senior sponsor who’s committed to the success of the Frontline Leadership Programme and will work with Police Now to enable you succeed on the programme. They’ll set the expectation in force that police officers taking part in the programme are expected to apply for promotion at the earliest opportunity.
Promotion brings greater responsibility and opportunity to lead change, for your team and for the communities you serve.
The Frontline Leadership Programme is designed specifically for police officers who want to positively change the destiny of communities, leading from the front in ways that build trust and confidence in our police service.
It will equip you to tackle current and future policing challenges with the highest level of policing practice and leadership capability.
You’ll be part of a culture of innovation, with a leadership mindset and approach that will serve you for your next promotion opportunity and allow you to succeed and thrive throughout your entire career.
The aims of the programme:
PREPARE TO LEAD
The Frontline leadership Programme will give you the knowledge, skills and mindset you need to achieve promotion.
It builds on your existing experience to embed the leadership skills and foundational knowledge you’ll need to be successful in the promotion process. Our curriculum teams are made up of educationalists and policing professionals using best practice techniques that build operational confidence.
You will gain an understanding of how to navigate and succeed in your in-force promotion process with the support of your designated Progression and Development Officer. You will also be part of a national network of officers from forces across England and Wales, sharing knowledge, experiences, help and advice.
You’ll come away with a renewed drive and urgency to continue your own development and to confidently progress your career.
Frontline Leadership Programme alumnus
"I joined the Frontline Leadership Programme because I wanted to utilise the network, learning material, and development opportunities available. What really sold the programme to me was the mock board interview practice, as from previous experience going in front of the board, I knew this was an area I wanted to develop my confidence in.
I think it’s important to take the support that’s offered to you and always strive to learn new skills and develop existing ones, in order to get where you want to be and start affecting real change as a leader in policing."
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