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People & impact
Leadership, behaviour change, and how learning lands with people.
If you designed a national leadership programme for police sergeants from scratch, what would it look like?
The Police Leadership Commission named first-line leadership as the neglected foundation of British policing. Designing a national programme for sergeants from scratch, the shift that matters most is treating the standard as something you meet and then hold every year, not a course you pass and finish with. Built from serving sergeants' own judgement, evidenced through data forces already hold, and honest that none of it works without protected time and money.
Ellie Pyemont · 7 min read
Police leadership training in the UK: a practical guide
Police leadership development in the UK is under more scrutiny than at any point in a generation. A graded PEEL leadership domain, an HMICFRS thematic inspection, and the Blunkett–Herbert Commission have all raised the bar. National College of Policing programmes set the floor, but they cannot tell a specific force what its own gaps require. This guide covers what police leadership training actually means, the components that change how people lead, how a local programme complements the national offer, and a practical sequence for building one, including when the honest answer is that training is not the fix.
Ellie Pyemont · 9 min read
What does police leadership development need next?
Senior police leaders are asked to operate across a vast operational range while also running complex modern organisations. Most of their development happens inside policing, which limits the breadth of perspective they can bring to strategic decisions. Closing that gap requires deliberate exposure to learning, methods, and people from outside the service.
Ellie Pyemont · 5 min read