Police: Training

(asked on 9th February 2017) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many officers have completed the College of Policing (a) Digital Communications, Social Media, Cybercrime and Policing, (b) Cybercrime and digital policing - an introduction, (c) Cybercrime and digital policing - First responder Training, (d) Cybercrime and digital policing - Investigation, (e) Communications Data in Investigations, (f) Introduction to Communications Data and Cybercrime, (g) Communications Data - Introduction to the Internet and (h) Communications Data and Cybercrime - Introduction to Law and Procedure e-learning packages.


Answered by
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Brandon Lewis
This question was answered on 23rd February 2017

The College of Policing was established in 2012 as the professional body for everyone who works for the police service in England and Wales. The College collects information on course attendance and has provided the data for this response. The number of officers and police staff who have undertaken each training course since 2013 is set out in the table below.

Course

Number of officers and staff completing the course since 2013

(a) Digital Communications, Social Media, Cybercrime and Policing

79,719

(b) Cybercrime and digital policing - an introduction

116,096

(c) Cybercrime and digital policing - First responder Training

105,747

(d) Cybercrime and digital policing – Investigation

88,178

(e) Communications Data in Investigations

7,713

(f) Introduction to Communications Data and Cybercrime

11,825

(g) Communications Data - Introduction to the Internet

9,428

(h) Communications Data and Cybercrime - Introduction to Law and Procedure e-learning packages.

5,970

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