The National Centre for Applied Learning Technologies (NCALT) is a collaboration between the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). 

NCALT assists the 43 Home Office police forces in England and Wales and the wider policing community in adopting new learning technologies.

NCALT produces and delivers local and national e-learning and immersive learning solutions for the police service. We also research and develop new learning technologies. 

Helen Schofield (Head of Learning Programmes, NPIA) and DAC Steve Roberts (Head of Training, MPS) are responsible for the strategic management of NCALT. The NCALT Programme Board is chaired by David Williams, the ACPO lead for Learning and Development.

The purpose of the Programme Board is to:

• Contribute to, review and approve or redirect the NCALT
  Business Plan
• Prioritise and approve or redirect the NCALT Work Programme including the E-Learning and MLE Development Plans
• Assist the policing family to make best use of the National Centre for Applied Learning Technologies
• Review progress and achievements.

Membership of the Programme Board includes representatives from NPIA (Head of Learning Programmes), Metropolitan Police Service (Head of Training and Director of Hydra Operations), Association of Chief Police Officers (Learning and Development Lead), Home Office (Policy Lead), Association of Police Authorities (Policy Lead), Police Force Training Managers, Skills for Justice and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary.