National Investigators' Examination
43 topics · 518 cards · 774 questions
Full mock: 80 questions, 2 hours
Try four topics freeMost candidates prepare the same way: read the manual, highlight it, read it again. This is the other half — one account with a separate space for each exam, so short daily sessions test you across the whole syllabus and show you honestly where you stand.
It opens in your phone's browser and installs to the home screen. Nothing arrives in the post, and there's nothing to set up beyond signing in.
The manuals explain the law. This asks you about it, over and over, in each exam's own format, until you can produce the answer under pressure.
Each exam is marked against its own current manual, and nothing here reproduces it. This is what you do with what you've read, not a replacement for reading it.
The exam you're sitting opens first. The other two are already included, ready when you need them.
43 topics · 518 cards · 774 questions
Full mock: 80 questions, 2 hours
Try four topics free50 topics · 611 cards · 911 questions
Full mock: 150 questions, 3 hours
See the Sergeants workspace50 topics · 609 cards · 909 questions
Full mock: 150 questions, 3 hours
See the Inspectors workspaceAlso included, as a private beta: two study-only SIPP legal-knowledge workspaces, mapped from the NPPF material above. Coverage is incomplete — see the limits under pricing before you buy.
Built to sit alongside your prescribed manuals, not replace them. NIE candidates need the current edition of Blackstone's Police Investigators' Manual. Sergeants and Inspectors candidates need the current editions of Blackstone's Police Manuals volumes 1–3: Crime, Evidence and Procedure, and General Police Duties. More in the FAQ and the content sources & licences.
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Learning research is blunt about the read-and-reread method: testing yourself beats rereading, and spacing those tests out beats cramming. The whole account is built on that, for all three exams.
Every card makes you pull the answer from memory before it's shown. Rereading feels like progress; retrieval is what actually builds recall.
A fact isn't done when you get it right once. Using calendar-based spaced review, it returns in later sessions until you've recalled it correctly three separate times.
Before each answer is revealed you tap Sure, Unsure or Guessing. Right-but-unsure isn't treated as known — the most dangerous gaps are the ones you think you've covered.
Scenario questions written for the paper you're actually sitting, so you practise applying the law, not just recognising it. Every one of the 2,594 questions explains the correct answer and each wrong option, so a miss becomes revision. And 286 written scenarios across the three complete exams ask you for the outcome and the decisive reason, with no options to lean on.
One number per exam, tracking your practice answers against that paper's published pass mark. It's our best estimate of where you stand — not a guarantee of your result. Set your sitting date and the syllabus becomes a daily pace; when time is short, the higher-mark areas come first.
One tap starts a session capped at 15 items, while the complete waiting count stays visible. Miss a few days and it simply carries on where you left off.
Yes. The £15 monthly subscription includes the NIE, NPPF Sergeants and NPPF Inspectors revision spaces in one account, each with its own progress record.
Yes. NIE candidates need the current edition of Blackstone's Police Investigators' Manual. Sergeants and Inspectors candidates need the current editions of Blackstone's Police Manuals volumes 1–3: Crime, Evidence and Procedure, and General Police Duties. Police Law Prep supports that study. It does not replace the manuals.
No. Police Law Prep is an independent study tool published by A Large Company Ltd. It is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the College of Policing, any police force, or any publisher.
Every card and question is written from primary public sources — legislation.gov.uk, the PACE Codes of Practice, CPS charging guidance and Sentencing Council guidelines — and corrected when the law changes.
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