What we do
We believe that given the highest levels of support and freedom, detectives and police officers can contribute to changing lives. Equipping participants with core policing skills, our two-year leadership development programmes help develop leadership, communication and problem-solving skills that will serve graduates, and the wider community, for a lifetime.
Our National Detective 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. During our pilot, last year, 93 participants were deployed across eight police forces.
Our National Graduate Leadership Programme trains and develops graduates to become leaders in neighbourhood policing. Participants are placed in some of the most challenging communities in England and Wales, getting to know the issues up close and developing innovative ideas and techniques to tackle the challenges residents are facing.
Why we do it
We’re looking for talented graduates from all degree disciplines to join our National Detective Programme and National Graduate Leadership Programme to make a lasting difference in some of the most vulnerable communities in England and Wales.
Play your part in helping us achieve our mission as we strive to transform communities by inspiring, recruiting and developing future leaders in policing.
Supporting the police service
Police Now works with over 30 forces throughout England and Wales to find outstanding police officers and detectives. We select and recruit highly competent graduates to play an important role in supporting the nation’s police in their efforts to increase the number of officers across England and Wales.
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.
Through our attraction, recruitment and innovative training programmes, we supply our partner police forces across England and Wales with the talented, driven graduates they need to drive results.
Our awards
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.
Meet the team
David Spencer
Co-Founder and CEO
Joni Ferns
Chief Operating Officer
Peter Borley
Programme Director
Kurtis Christoforides
Policing and Home Affairs Director
Clare Power
Recruitment and Marketing Director
Meet the board
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, the Board of Trustees
Rhammel Afflick
Director of Communications, Pride London
Maggie Ashton
Police Now participant, Northumbria Constabulary
Helen Ball QPM
Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Service
James Bowler CB
Director General, Ministry of Justice
Judith Clegg
CEO and founder, Takeout
Martin Coleman
Vice Chair, Office for Students
Dominic Fry
Bob Rothenberg MBE
Senior Partner, Blick Rothenberg See Bio
Jennifer Tsim
Partner, Oliver Wyman
Lord Simon Woolley of Woodford
Director, Operation Black Vote
Lydia Wong
Police Now participant, Metropolitan Police Service
DCC Louisa Rolfe OBE
Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Service