Learning Services Division

The Learning Services Division provides services in the following areas:

• Consultancy and curriculum design;
• Training quality;
• Language training;
• Academic affairs; and
• Learning programme accreditation.

Consultancy and Curriculum Design

The Learning Services Division provides consultancy advice on effective training interventions, including training needs analysis, curriculum design, training approach and methodologies, and training evaluation. In partnership with client Formations, the overall objective is to help professionalise training interventions and maximise training outcomes.

To maintain quality, training authorities should prepare curriculum handbooks for their major training programmes. The Division will provide professional assistance in validating all curriculum handbooks.

Training Quality

Being the centralised Division to ensure training quality, the Learning Services Division has a major role in enhancing and maintaining the quality of instructors and training programmes. Another core business of the Division is to oversee and continuously improve the Quality Assurance Mechanism for the Police College.

The quality of Force training is assured through the use of competent and well-trained instructors. In view of this, the Division provides training development education for training staff to improve their professional qualities, in particular their abilities to adopt appropriate modern learning methods and technologies, as well as to conduct training needs analysis and training evaluation.

Language Training

The Learning Services Division is the centralised unit in the Force to provide language training for Force members. It aims to promote biliteracy and trilingualism in the Force.

Academic Affairs

The Learning Services Division also provides academic affairs services to assist the professionalisation of police training through partnership with renowned universities and external training institutes.

The Division also develops study pathways to facilitate Force members to acquire qualifications at different levels. It aims to enhance officers' pursuance of lifelong learning in a progressive and systematic manner.

Internal Learning Programme Accreditation (ILPA)

The Learning Services Division also provides facilitation services to the learning programme operators of the Police College and other units in the Force, in the process of seeking internal learning programme accreditation or re-accreditation through the Police College’s ILPA System upon its attainment of Programme Area Accreditation status at Qualifications Framework Level 5.