Community and Neighbourhood Policing

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at on 15 July 2019.

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Photo of Nick Hurd Nick Hurd The Minister of State, Home Department, Minister of State (London)

They do not need a degree to go into policing; that is what the apprentice route is for. I know plenty of people with degrees who would make very poor police officers. What we are keen to do is upskill the force and, critically, ensure that the very considerable skills that people coming out of policing have developed are accredited.