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London Policing College
Let's Build Your Operational Capability
Every organisation faces different operational challenges.
Rather than asking you to choose a course, we’ll help you explore the capability you want to develop and identify possible approaches before we speak.
This takes approximately two minutes.
- Clarify your operational challenge
- Explore possible solutions
- Receive a tailored Capability Snapshot
- Begin a conversation with our team
STEP 1 OF 6
Understanding Your Challenge
What challenge would you most like to improve?
Choose the area that best reflects your main priority. Don’t worry if more than one feels relevant — we’ll explore the wider context as you continue.
Leadership
Develop confident operational leaders
Investigation
Improve investigative capability
Intelligence
Strengthen intelligence capability
Community Safety
Build public confidence and prevention
Digital Capability
Respond to technology and digital crime
Resilience
Prepare for emergencies and major incidents
Organisational Development
Strengthen organisational systems and performance
Evaluation & Performance
Understand impact and improve delivery
Not sure
Help me identify the challenge
Step 2 of 6
Understanding Your People
Who is this primarily for?
Choose the group that is the main focus of the capability development.
New staff/recruits
People beginning their operational or professional developoment
Practitioners
People applying capability in operational or professional roles
Supervisors
People responsible for supervising teams and operational delivery
Operational leaders/managers
People leading teams, functions or operational capacity
Senior Leaders
Leaders responsible for strategic and organisational performance
Executive team
Executive-level leaders shaping organisational direction
Whole organisation
Capability development across the wider organisation
Step 3 of 6
Understanding Sucess
What sucess looks like?
Select up to four outcomes that would make the greatest difference.
Improve Operational Performance
Strengthen day-to-day operational effectiveness
Increase professional confidence
Build confidence in professional judgement and practice
Improve investigations
Strengthen investigative quality and consistency
Build leadership capability
Develop confident and effective leaders
Strengthen community Confidence
Improve trust, engagement and public confidence
Reduce Organisational risk
Address capability gaps and operational risk
Improve safeguarding
Strengthen safeguarding practice and decision-making
Develop digital capability
Build confidence in digital and technology-related challenges
Increase Resilience
Prepare people and organisations for disruption and emergencies
Build organisational capability
Strengthen systems, people and organisational performance
Respond to inspection recommendations
Address findings from inspection or external review
Develop or modernise a curriculum
Improve learning pathways and professional developoment
Improve partnership working
Strengthen collaboration across organisations
Other
Tell us about another outcome that matters to you
Step 4 of 6
Exploring Possible Approaches
Which Approaches are you interested in?
You do not need to know the answer at this stage. Select any approaches that interest you, or choose “Not sure — advise me”. Your preferences will help inform the conversation, but they will not determine the final solution.
Face-to-face learning
In-person learning and facilitated development
Online learning
Flexible digital learning and virtual delivery
Blended Learning
A mix of in-person and online learning
Immersive / scenario-based learning
Practice through realistic scenarios and simulation
Operational exercises
Test capabilitiy through structured exercises
Coaching
Individual or team development through guided support
Consultancy
Expert support to explore organisational challenges
Evaluation
Review impact, effectiveness and opportunities for improvement
Learning resources / digital content
Develop practical resources and digital learning content
Not sure - advise me
Help us identify the most appropriate approach
Step 5 of 6
Understanding Your Organisation
Where is your organisation based?
What best describes your organisation?
Choose the option that most closely reflects your organisation.
Police force / policing organisation
Government / public sector
Emergency Service
Regulatory / inspection body
Education
Private Sector
Charity / third sector
International / overseas organisation
Other
What scale of capability development are you considering?
Individual / small group
Focused development for a small number of people
Team / department
Capability development across a team or function
Multiple teams / departments
Development spanning several areas of the organisation
Organisation-wide
Capability development across the wider organisation
What timescale are you working towards?
Inmmediate
Within 3 months
Within 6 months
Within 12 months
Future planning
What prompted you to begin looking now?
Inspection or external review
New strategy
New legislation / standards
Performance concerns
Growth or organisational change
Critical incident
Leadership Change
Emerging threat / technology
Future planning
Other
Step 6 of 6
Tell Us More
Is there anything else you'd like to tell us?
Add any context that you think would help us understand your challenge. This is optional — a sentence or two is enough.
Please do not include classified, operationally sensitive, case-specific or personal data. Keep your response at an organisational and capability level.
Your RESULTS
Your Operational Capabiilty Snapshot
Based on the information you’ve provided, this Snapshot highlights the capability themes and approaches that may be most relevant to explore further with London Policing College.
Capability themes
Your strongest capability themes will appear here.
Your priorities
The outcomes you selected will appear here.
Approaches worth exploring
Potential development approaches will appear here.
Our initial view
A short LPC initial view will appear here.
Relevant LPC experience
Relevant LPC capability pages, portfolios and case studies will appear here.
Your context
A summary of the organisational context you provided will appear here.
Continue the Conversation
Every organisation is different. One of our senior practitioners would welcome the opportunity to discuss your Capability Snapshot, understand your context in more detail and explore how London Policing College might support you.
LONDON POLICING COLLEGE
Continue the Conversation
Your Capability Snapshot is a starting point, not a formal assessment. If you would like to explore the findings further, share your details below and a member of the London Policing College team can continue the conversation with you.