RPL Initial Application Form

This form will be used to form the starting point for the RPL (Recognition of Prior Experience and Learning) process. Please ensure that you provide accurate information and be aware that you will have to provide evidence to support your claim. Please remember to indicate how your professional experiences, both training and operational, have advanced your understanding of policing.

Please make sure you attach your summary from the Credit Estimator on the Professional Development Platform.

  1. Personal Details

SURNAME: / FORENAMES:
DATE OF BIRTH:
HOME ADDRESS:
HOME TELEPHONE: / MOBILE:
WORK TELEPHONE:
PERSONAL E-MAIL:
WORK E-MAIL:
CURRENT EMPLOYER:
TOTAL YEARS OF SERVICE WITH THE POLICE:
CURRENT ROLE
  1. Course being applied for

3. Academic qualifications(formal learning at a university or college)

*Please provide the credit level and value if known.

Award/ qualification / Where studied / Date completed / Credit level * / Number of Credits *

4. Other Police Training Courses(COP or other local, in force training courses not listed in the RPL National Policing Curriculum Matrix)

Award/ qualification / Where studied / Date completed / Credit level
(to be completed by the HEI) / Number of Credits (to be completed by the HEI)

5. Brief Outline of Previous Policing Experience:

5.1. Identify up to five of the most recent substantial roles / responsibilities that you have undertaken within a professional policing context. You will have an opportunity later in the form to describe how you learnt from the experience of being in this role (the box will expand as you type).
5.2. In up to500 words give an example of how you have developed your understanding of policing from performing your professional policing duties.
For example you may want to consider: your involvement in problem solving within a policing context including the use of different data sources / elements of community engagement to both extend your understanding of local police problems and how they can be tackled / experience of working as a team including with partners both internally and externally
5.3. In up to 500 words provide an example of how you have applied learning to practice.
For example, you may want to consider how you have changed your practice as a result of the learning you have undertaken and the impact this has had as a result / any results analysis you have been involved in and what learning you took from that process
5.4. Any other comment you wish to make about your application?

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