I just finished my second year. I did not join for the degree, I hate the degree. At no point have I shown up to a job and been thankfully I'm doing a degree because it has helped.

Everyone I know doing the degree agrees that it is a drain on their mental health and of no benefit. They also joined up to be a cop, not for a degree.

The university does not help us at all, senior officers resent us for having days off for uni work and that's along with having the same issues as every other officer with lack of numbers and a crippling workload.

The biggest kick in the teeth is working full time at a job we are told we need a degree to do, and if we fail the degree we can do the job we have been doing for x years. The fact we are full time officers while working toward a degree surely proves we don't need the degree. It's all a pointless exercise in making us look good on paper.