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[honestyvo]

Hello everyone!
It's my first post and I hope my question hasn't been asked before... I have browsed through the forum briefly but to no avail.

I was wondering on completion of your SC training and starting your first shift and/or when you gain your independent patrol status do you receive any qualifications or certificates to say that you have acheived this?

Just out of curiosity.

Thanks a lot.

[BigCopSmallTown]

Different forces do different things. With the advent of IL4SC I believe there is something you get at the end of your training but its been a long time since I was in training school!

[WW86]

TVP do the IL4SC course, and I didn't get any piece of paper saying I'd completed it; as far as I know, no-one in my intake has either. All we got at the end of our training was our Warrant Card, shield/ badge and our Certificate of Office signed by the Magistrate. NCALT modules often have certificates attached to them once you've completed them, some showing the mark you achieved on them, others not depending on whether the module had an assessment element to it or not - these count towards your PDP and eventually IP status.

From what I've heard talking to other SCs, you do get something when you reach IP status, but waht I'm not too sure about; would think it's a certificate of some description.

[Rocket]

Also, there are the NCALT courses online, some of which you will do at force specific level and some at NPIA National level. You can print off the .PDF certificates showing the completion of the course and add them to your PDP alongside anything else that you get from IL4SC and other certification.

This very weekend, I obtained 9 certificates. 1 Public Order, 2 Olympics, and 6 module certificates to do with a Misper course.

[Straightjacket]

It would be good if somehow these translated to a civvy qualification for your CV and benefit of the employers who potentially put up with some work interference.

[McFlurry]

A fair few of us now have done a Chartered Management Institute approved course through the NPIA now. I'm not a CMI member so I don't get a certificate though.

[Woody]

Just attested and We received the Oath on a nice a4 size bit of paper and a certificate of completing the 8 modules.

[shinyboots]

When I was with Cleveland, we attended Teesside University for the majority of our Specials training where we followed a programme which led to a Certificate of Professional Development worth 60 credits! With rumours afoot regarding an increase in academic qualifications to join the regulars, evidence of higher level study such as this may well prove useful!

[richr]

I got a card in a little holder with a crest on it

[honestyvo]

Thank you everyone for your replies

Sorry - it may sound like a silly question.. but at what point do you start doing your NCALT modules? is this post attestation and pre IP status?

[Dale-Staffs]

I recieved a letter from the Chief Constable!

[RomeoAlphaWhiskey]

For Kent on the IL4SC we get a certificate signed by the Magistrate and also a certificate to say we have completed the course... plus the trusty warrant card

[RedCap]

you need to get in line with the military, nearly every course gives a civilian qual as well, for a little more work.

[SkinSte]

I'm not sure completing an NCALT in a vehicle MDT will translate too well to a civilian qualification. Unless it's to demonstrate your ability to punch a touch screen really hard when it stops working for the fourth time in 15 minutes.

[Mr So Special]

It would be good if somehow these translated to a civvy qualification for your CV and benefit of the employers who potentially put up with some work interference.

It would really be down to you to "Translate it" in to civvie terms. The army might do some sort of civvie equivilant, as Redcap states, however, terms like "Tank park" and "Queens Lifeguard" don't mean anything. If you think about the jobs you've applied for, they're not all the same and so a standard CV wouldn't be the same for every post you apply for.
As long as you have page of what you did, during you period in the Specials, as in time served. any courses undertaken, really you should be able to explain in the possible employers understanding what it relates to. If the employer chooses not to believe you, then they probably never liked the police anyway.

[DukeDan]

What about first aid during training, any recognised qualifications from that? Or again does it vary from force to force?

[MrMajestyk]

In Herts we were offered first aid certs for the traing we did...

[AnthonyB]

What about first aid during training, any recognised qualifications from that? Or again does it vary from force to force?

Depends on what your force does and the certfication. The main benefit is if the force issues you an Emergency First Aid at Work (1 day minimum - attendance only) or First Aid at Work (3 day minimum - practical exam) certificate.

It MUST be a HSE certificate including the force's registration number to be legit for workplace use - although some forces courses exceed the clinical content for EFAW or FAW they don't all result in the appropriate certificate (mainly as they omit the legislative side of First Aid at Work)

[WW86]

Thank you everyone for your replies

Sorry - it may sound like a silly question.. but at what point do you start doing your NCALT modules? is this post attestation and pre IP status?

We started our NCALT modules on the first weekend of training; don't know how other forces do it, but the ones we did were in line with the IL4SC course.

[smt]

Police qualifications mean sweet F.A. in civvy street. How many jobs want an officer who's passed a course in pursuit, arrest, surveillance etc. (apart from some security jobs)?

Relevant skills on your C.V. would be good communication skills, diversity, ability to work shifts etc. but there are no 'real' qualifications to be gained from policing.

[diveruk]

• I do know that Niton who conduct self defence training are looking at doing a course for specials and each module will get you an NCFE Certificate Level, which is equivalent to City & Guilds, the course is run in line with the current NPIA self defence manual, so thats a step in the right direction, and in line with current guidelines.

[Alex_101]

In the met you get a travel card.

[Jonno]

When I was with Cleveland, we attended Teesside University for the majority of our Specials training where we followed a programme which led to a Certificate of Professional Development worth 60 credits! With rumours afoot regarding an increase in academic qualifications to join the regulars, evidence of higher level study such as this may well prove useful!

We did the same on our course with West Mercia, although I believe we have now ended this connection with Teeside Uni.

[Hades]

Police qualifications mean sweet F.A. in civvy street. How many jobs want an officer who's passed a course in pursuit, arrest, surveillance etc. (apart from some security jobs)?

Relevant skills on your C.V. would be good communication skills, diversity, ability to work shifts etc. but there are no 'real' qualifications to be gained from policing.

Absolute utter rubbish. What closed minded thinking.