Devon and Cornwall Police Jobs
Devon and Cornwall Police jobs
Change the story
Do you think differently? Do you want a meaningful career that improves the lives of those around you, a career where no two days are the same?
If so, you may be eligible to join a Police Now award winning two-year national graduate programme. This is a unique opportunity to join the police through one of our Times Top 100 graduate schemes which offer personal support and advice, training and development.
Society needs police officers as diverse as the communities they serve across Devon and Cornwall, to improve the lives of those around them. We need people like you to bring the diversity of your experiences to make a positive and lasting difference in Devon and Cornwall and to the communities challenged by crime.
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Applications are now open for our 2025 National Detective Programme.
Devon and Cornwall Police careers
Formed in 1967 from an amalgamation of local forces, Devon and Cornwall Police covers the largest area of any English police force at nearly 4,000 square miles of rural, coastal and urban communities.
Our peninsula includes extensive national heritage sites, farmland, over 1,200 miles of coastline, a 13,600-mile road network, holiday resorts, market towns and the idyllic Isles of Scilly.
Our two ‘County Shows’, air shows, regattas and other festivals form some of the most notable policing events, in addition to the peninsula being a popular tourist destination.
Our population of 1.8 million swells with around 11 million visitors per year. Tourists and other visitors bring great economic benefits plus significant summer policing demand, contributing to the 1 million annual calls for service we receive.
Devon and Cornwall Police are working hard to increase their representation of the public they serve across all protected characteristics and other demographics. This includes encouraging increased recruitment from Black, Asian and other minority ethnic communities, people of all abilities and beliefs, increasing proportion of female officers, while also maintaining the diverse representation the force already has across ages, of LGBTQ+ communities, plus the range of other mixed backgrounds and experience of their officers.
DEVON AND CORNWALL
Through our partnership with Devon and Cornwall Police, we have recruited, trained and developed 64 graduates to become police officers and detectives on our national graduate programmes since 2018.
- Chief Constable: Acting Chief Jim Colwell
- Headquarters: Middlemoor, Exeter, Devon
- Areas include: Torquay, St Ives, Exeter, Exmouth, Barnstaple, Ilfracombe, Penzane, Dartmouth, Plymouth
Why join Devon and Cornwall Police with Police Now?
By joining Devon and Cornwall Police through Police Now’s national graduate programmes, you’ll benefit from our unique range of support and development features specially designed to develop your career and your impact in policing.
You’ll get a whole host of Police Now benefits unique to our national graduate programmes.
- A Performance and Development Coach who’ll work with you over the two-year programme on your personal and professional development.
- A Police Now national peer network to learn from and share experiences with.
- Advice from experienced officers through the Police Now alumni network.
- Our specially designed Police Now Academy to give you a unique and intensive preparation for life in-force.
Devon and Cornwall Police graduate scheme
We are looking for graduates to join Devon and Cornwall Police through our national graduate programmes.
National Graduate Leadership Programme
National Detective Programme
Devon and Cornwall Police recruitment
Our focus on diversity and inclusion
Devon and Cornwall Police are working hard to increase their representation of the public they serve across all protected characteristics and other demographics.
This includes encouraging increased recruitment from Black, Asian and other minority ethnic communities, people of all abilities and beliefs, increasing proportion of female officers, while also maintaining the diverse representation the force already has across ages, of LGBTQ+ communities, plus the range of other mixed backgrounds and experience of their officers.
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We want to encourage people of diverse backgrounds, experience and beliefs, who share our values and want to make a difference in the community, to consider working for us.
We also have a network of diversity champions and a range of staff support groups who can support our diverse workforce.
Core requirements
To be eligible to join Devon and Cornwall Police, you must:
- Have achieved, or be working towards, a 2.2 undergraduate degree by the programme start date.
- Be a British Citizen or have indefinite leave to remain and right to work in the UK.
- Have lived in the UK for the last three years.
- Have a full UK manual driving licence.
Before you apply, make sure you read our full eligibility criteria.
How you apply
You want a career where you can make an impact. Are you prepared to start the application process?
Being prepared is the first step in being successful in your application. Before you apply, make sure to thoroughly read this information and have everything you need to start your journey.
Find out how you apply for Devon and Cornwall Police and all the steps you’ll go through in becoming a police officer with Police Now.
