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About Us
Police Now’s 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.
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 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.
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.
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
Since our inception in 2015 we have won more than 30 awards, from our market-leading diversity and inclusion strategies to our innovative marketing campaigns and recruitment process, through to our two-year training and development programmes. We’re also delighted to share that we were the highest climber in 2019-2020 Times Top 100 Graduate Employers, as voted for by university finalists.
Times Top 100 2023
Top 100 graduate employers
HR Excellence 2022
Best Diversity and Inclusion Strategy
UK 300
Most popular 300 graduate employers
CIPD 2021
Best Learning and Development Initiative (public/third sector) and Best Inclusion and Diversity Initiative
Recruiter Awards 2021
Best Graduate Recruitment Strategy
TARGETjobs National Graduate Recruitment Awards 2021
Rising Star Award
TARGETjobs National Graduate Recruitment Awards 2021
Best Diversity and Inclusion Strategy
Institute of Student Employer (ISE) Awards 2021
Commitment to Improving Diversity through Student Resourcing, Innovation in Attraction and Best Single Purpose Attraction Activation
TARGETjobs
National Graduate Recruitment Awards
EBMA 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
CIPD
People Management Awards
The Drum
Recruitment Business Awards
Recruitment Marketing Awards
Recognising excellence in recruitment marketing
Recruiter Awards 2017
Recognising outstanding achievement in recruitment
EBMA 2017
Employer Brand Management Awards
Commissioner's Excellence
2016
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 leadership team
Kurtis Christoforides
Chief Executive Officer
Clare Power
Recruitment and Marketing Director
Penny Jerrum
Policing and Home Affairs Director
Rachel Kershaw
Programmes Director
Ola Daly
Head of Impact and Insights
Cat Moughton
Head of People
Erik Rivas
Head of Employer Brand and Recruitment Marketing
Vickie Custy
Head of Communications and External Affairs
Rob Murray
Head of the National Graduate Leadership Programme
Kim Halliday
Head of Finance and IT
Katryna Smyth
Head of Recruitment
Shaun Daly
Head of Force Partnerships
Jonathan Hinder
Head of Alumni and Ambassadors
Richard Wood
Head of the National Detective Programme
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 of the Board of Trustees, Police Now
Rhammel Afflick
Consultant and Head of Advocacy and Communications, The British Youth Council
Helen Ball QPM
Former Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Service
James Bowler CB
Permanent Secretary, Her Majesty's Treasury
Jennifer Tsim
Partner, Oliver Wyman
Lord Simon Woolley of Woodford
Principal at Homerton College, Cambridge University
Judith Clegg
CEO and founder, Takeout
Louisa Rolfe OBE
Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Service
Dominic Fry
Former Communications and Investor Relations Director, Marks & Spencer
Amelia Tanner
Detective Inspector, Thames Valley Police
Caitlin Kinsella
Group Director of Employee Engagement, D&I and Responsible Business, Capita
Matthew Cooper
Police Constable, West Midlands Police
Customer Insights,
Futures and Impact Board Committee
Helen Ball (Chair)
Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Service
Louisa Rolfe
Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Service
Gavin Stephens
Chief Constable, Surrey Police
Jason Hogg
Deputy Chief Constable, Thames Valley Police
Phil Cain
Deputy Chief Constable, North Yorkshire Police
Sarah Crew
Temporary Chief Constable, Avon & Somerset Constabulary
Mike O’Hara
Assistant Chief Constable, West Midlands Police
Rhammel Afflick
Freelance consultant
Millie Tanner
Inspector, Thames Valley Police
Upile Mtitimila
Detective Inspector, Cheshire Constabulary
Richard Leicester
Assistant Chief Officer, Kent Police & Essex Police
James Darley
Chief Executive Officer, Transform Society
Joanna Tilley
Neighbourhood police officer
Partner with us
Partner with us and together we’ll have the power to make a sustainable long-term impact on society.
Police Now’s mission is to transform communities by recruiting, developing, and inspiring leaders in policing.