Police jobs: join the police service through our partner forces
Police Now currently works in partnership with over 30 police forces across England and Wales to attract, train and develop outstanding graduates to become inspirational police officers. Through our attraction, recruitment and innovative training programmes, graduates join our partner police forces to support them in achieving a positive impact on their local communities.
At the start of your journey with Police Now you are asked to indicate the forces you are interested in joining. If you successfully secure a place at our Assessment Centre we will discuss your options with you before you attend.
Applications are now open for our 2020 National Graduate Leadership Programme with the following forces:
• Cambridgeshire Constabulary
• Essex Police
• Hertfordshire Constabulary
• Humberside Police
• Greater Manchester Police
• Lancashire Constabulary
• Metropolitan Police Service
• North Yorkshire Police
• Northumbria Police
• South Yorkshire Police
• Staffordshire Police
• Surrey Police
• Sussex Police
• West Mercia Police
• West Midlands Police
Our partner forces
Headquarters: Hitchingbrooke, Huntingdon
Population: approx. 1,000,000
Area: 1,309 square miles
Local policing teams: 1,383 police officers and 111 police community support officers across 12 police stations
Cambridgeshire Constabulary
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Headquarters: Welwyn Garden City
Population: approx. 1,100,000
Area: 727 square miles
Local policing teams: 3,900 officers and staff across 21 police stations in Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire Police
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Headquarters: Weston Road, Stafford
Population: approx. 1,062,500
Area: over 1,000 square miles
Local policing teams: eleven
Staffordshire Police
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Am I training with Police Now or with a police force?
You will be a participant on a Police Now national graduate programme, working with a specific police force alongside other serving officers from this force. You’ll participate in the Police Now programme, whilst working in your chosen police force, for the duration of the two-year programme. And at the end of the two years, when you successfully complete the programme and your probation, you’ll have the opportunity to consider continuing as a police officer with this police force.
Am I training alongside other Police Now participants?
Successful applicants start their Police Now programme with a multi-week residential academy, alongside other Police Now particpants who will later be joining other police forces. While completing the Police Now Academy, you’ll be introduced to your chosen force, giving you the chance to meet key contacts and complete elements of your training. After completing your academy you will spend the remainder of your two-year Police Now programme with your force. At this point you’ll be assigned to a specific community within your chosen forces jurisdiction, completing your training alongside police mentors and serving police officers from that force.
Your Police Now Leadership Development Officer will work with you over the entire two-year programme to mentor and develop your leadership skills. They will help you set achievable but challenging objectives for the work you’ll do over each 100 day period, which culminates with an Impact Event where you will share examples of you work and hear about other participants experiences. You’ll work day-to-day with police mentors from your force and alongside serving police officers who will also help you to achieve your impact objectives.
Which force should I choose?
We are partnered with over 30 police forces across England and Wales. Each police force has a different requirement for the number of Police Now participants they need and places are offered on a first come first serve basis, which means you should complete your application, online assessment and assessment centre as soon as you’re able to.
Some of our participants select a force based on a region they’re familiar with, the area where they grew-up, or the city where they went to university. Equally, many relocate to new areas to join a force based on the communities they’d like to be involved with over the two-year programme. Whatever your decision on force location you will be joining our programme alongside other Police Now participants in the same position as you as well as other police staff based in your chosen force.