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Police Now attract, recruit and train outstanding graduates with leadership potential to be inspirational detectives and police officers who transform communities. Not just for people today, but for generations to come.

We believe that given the highest levels of support, detectives and neighbourhood police officers can contribute to changing lives. Equipping participants with core policing skills, our two-year National Graduate Programme helps to develop leadership, communication and problem-solving skills that will serve graduates, and the wider community, for a lifetime.

Detective

The detective specialism of the programme is designed to equip graduates with the core policing skills required in modern investigative work. Throughout the two-year training programme, participants play an integral part in solving crimes while developing leadership, communication and problem-solving skills.

Neighbourhood

The neighbourhood policing specialism trains and develops graduates to become leaders in neighbourhood policing. Participants are placed in some of the most challenging communities, identifying issues and developing innovative ideas and techniques to tackle challenges residents are facing.

Our mission is to transform communities, reduce crime and anti-social behaviour, and increase the public's confidence in the police service by recruiting, developing and inspiring outstanding and diverse individuals to be leaders in society and on the policing frontline.

Supporting the Police Service

Police Now is an independent social enterprise, supported by the Home Office. That means we’re an organisation that aims to bring about improvements in society rather than profits for our organisation.

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Police Now partners with over 30 forces across England and Wales to recruit exceptional graduates as police officers and detectives, supporting the nation’s efforts to grow the police workforce.

Through our attraction, recruitment and innovative training programmes, we supply our partner forces across England and Wales with the talented, driven graduates they need to drive results.

Our Awards

Since our inception in 2015, we have won more than 35 awards, recognising our diversity and inclusion strategies, innovative marketing campaigns and recruitment process and our two-year training and development programmes.

Times Top 100 Graduate Employers logo
2025 Times Top 100 Graduate Employers
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Firm Awards 2024 - Best Candidate Experience
HR Excellence 2022
HR Excellence 2022 - Best Diversity and Inclusion Strategy
ISE AWARDS 2022
ISE Awards 2022 - Commitment to Improving Diversity
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Best Diversity and Inclusion Initiative
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Most Popular 300 Graduate Employers
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CIPD 2021 - Best L&D and Inclusion and Diversity Initiatives
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2021 Best Graduate Recruitment Strategy
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Target Jobs 2021 - Best Diversity and Inclusion Strategy
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2021 Graduate Scheme of the Year
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ISE Awards 2021 - Commitment to Improving Diversity
TARGETjobs
TARGETjobs 2019 National Graduate Recruitment Awards
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2019 Employer Brand Management Awards
Institute of Student Employers
Student Recruitment Awards 2018
The RAD Awards
Best of Recruitment Communications
Personnel Today Awards
Celebrating the Best in HR 2017
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CIPD 2017 - People Management Awards
The Drum
The Drum - Recruitment Business Awards
Recruitment Marketing Awards
2017 Recruitment Marketing Awards
Recruiter Awards 2017
Recruiter Awards 2017
EBMA 2017
2017 Employer Brand Management Awards
Commissioner's Excellence
2016 Commissioner's Excellence

Reports

The Case for Change report explains how we seek to break the cycle of crime and deprivation as well as provide high quality day-to-day policing.

Our Impact Report demonstrates the impact Police Now participants, alumni and partners are having in communities across the England and Wales.

Police Now’s Annual Report and Accounts for the year ending 31 March 2024.

Meet the leadership team

Kurtis Christoferides

Chief Executive Officer

Clare Power

Chief Marketing Officer

Penny Jerrum

Chief Operating Officer

Julie Anisiobi

Programmes Director

Cat Moughton

Head of People

Sam George

Head of Neighbourhood Policing Specialism

Amelia Tanner

Head of Detective Specialism

Katryna Smyth

Head of Recruitment

Erik Rivas

Head of Employer Brand & Recruitment Marketing

Vickie Custy

Head of Media and Communications

Shaun Daly

Head of Force Partnerships

Kim Halliday

Head of Finance and IT

Meet the board of trustees

The Police Now board draws on commercial and policing experience across a diverse range of individuals from different backgrounds. The board helps to steer the strategic and operational direction of the organisation.

Sir Ian Powell

Chair, Police Now

Flint Global Former Chair & Senior Partner, PwC

Dominic Fry

Deputy Chair, Police Now

Former Communications and Investor Relations Director, Marks & Spencer

Lord Simon Woolley of Woodford

Principal at Homerton College, Cambridge Founder & Director, Operation Black Vote

Louisa Rolfe OBE

Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Service

James Bowler CB

Permanent Secretary, His Majesty’s Treasury

Helen Ball QPM

Former Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Service

Jason Hogg

Chief Constable, Thames Valley Police

Jennifer Tsim

Partner, Oliver Wyman

Caitlin Kinsella

Group Director of Employee Engagement, D&I and Responsible Business, Capita

Matthew Cooper

Police Now Participant, Police Constable, West Midlands Police

Victoria Tillbrook

Chartered Accountant & Partner, PwC

Shoaib Awan

Police Now Participant, Detective Constable, Gwent Police

Customer Insights,
Futures and Impact Board Committee

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Helen Ball (Chair)

Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Service

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Louisa Rolfe

Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Service

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Gavin Stephens

Chief Constable, Surrey Police

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Jason Hogg

Deputy Chief Constable, Thames Valley Police

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Phil Cain

Deputy Chief Constable, North Yorkshire Police

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Sarah Crew

Temporary Chief Constable, Avon & Somerset Constabulary

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Mike O’Hara

Assistant Chief Constable, West Midlands Police

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Rhammel Afflick

Freelance consultant

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Millie Tanner

Inspector, Thames Valley Police

Upile Mtitimila
Upile Mtitimila

Detective Inspector, Cheshire Constabulary

Richard Leicester - latest
Richard Leicester

Assistant Chief Officer, Kent Police & Essex Police

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James Darley

Chief Executive Officer, Transform Society

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Joanna Tilley

Neighbourhood police officer

Partner with us

We partner with police forces across England and Wales, working together to transform communities, reduce crime and anti-social behaviour and increase the public’s confidence in policing.

Dorset Police

Police Now | Dorset Police
Scott Chilton - Dorset Police Chief Constable

Scott Chilton

Chief Constable

National Graduate Leadership Programme

National Detective Programme

Visit the Dorset Police website www.dorset.police.uk