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New police programme aims to create leaders of the future

A new police leadership programme has been announced by Home Office Minister Hazel Blears at the annual Police Federation conference in Bournemouth.

The Core Leadership Development Programme1 (CLDP) is designed for all police staff from constables to sergeants. The programme aims to help officers develop the skills to rise more rapidly through the ranks, boosting staff retention, getting the best people into the top jobs, and helping to create a modern police service with the strong leadership needed to meet the challenges of the twenty first century.

The CLDP was developed by Centrex on behalf of the Police Leadership Development Board and consists of flexible modules designed to help people prepare for career development or promotion. There will be a developmental rollout over the next 18 months.

The modules are generic in nature - the majority of them are open to both officers and to police staff. They are modular, role-based and founded on the National Occupational Standards and the Integrated Competency Framework and introduce leadership skills designed to enhance overall performance.

Ms Blears said: "The Government has delivered record investment in the police service, with more police officers than ever before, at more than 138,000. But we need to make the most of those officers, as we continue to modernise and improve the police service, to further cut crime and improve community safety.

"Improving leadership at all levels within the service is a major part of the second phase of our police reform programme. Frontline officers remain the lynchpin of local policing and it is vital that we give them the skills they need to build on strong links with communities, and enable them to lead the way in improving respect for the law and encouraging community engagement in policing.

"And while we need strong leadership today, we crucially need to ensure that we can continue to bring good people up through the ranks to lead the service tomorrow. We need to retain and develop the best staff, ensuring the police service is able to meet robustly the challenges of our changing society."

The Government has already introduced new leadership programmes for chief inspectors and superintendents, while a recent project, "Getting the Best Leaders to Take On the Most Demanding Challenges" looked at identifying, developing and incentivising the best people to be the future leaders of the police service.

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