Avon and Somerset Police jobs
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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 employment schemes, which offer support, mentorship, and personal career development opportunities throughout the two-year programme.
Society needs police officers as diverse as the communities they serve across the Avon and Somerset region, 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 Avon and Somerset to communities challenged by crime.
Avon and Somerset Police careers
Avon and Somerset Police as we know it today formed in 1974 from the merger of the former Somerset and Bath Constabulary with the Bristol police force and the Staple Hill division of Gloucestershire Constabulary.
Avon and Somerset Police has a growing and diversifying population, and serves 1,855 square miles – a mix of urban and rural landscapes including moorland, farmland, coastline, holiday resorts, market towns and cities including Bristol, one of England’s eight core cities.
Glastonbury Festival, Europe’s largest music festival and Badminton Horse Trials are two of the Constabulary’s most notable policing events.
A diverse, multi-cultural population swelled by a large student population and tourists, brings challenges in policing, with pockets of substantial wealth contrasting deprived localities and communities.
You could be posted anywhere within Avon and Somerset, depending on force needs. By the time you start the programme, you’ll be expected to reside within 30 miles, or with a travelling time of up to 45 minutes, from your posting.
AVON AND SOMERSET
Through our partnership with Avon and Somerset Police, we have recruited, trained and developed 80 graduates to become police officers and detectives on our national graduate programmes since 2017.
- Chief Constable: Sarah Crew
- Headquarters: Valley Road, Portishead, Bristol
- Areas include: Bath & North East Somerset, Bristol, South Gloucestershire, North Somerset, Somerset
Why join Avon and Somerset Police with Police Now?
By joining Avon and Somerset 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.
Avon and Somerset Police recruitment
Our focus on diversity and inclusion
Avon and Somerset Police are committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Our mission is to serve our communities. The most effective way we can do this is if the people who work for us are representative of our communities.
We are working hard to increase diversity and inclusion where communities are currently under-represented.
We want to encourage people of diverse backgrounds, experience and beliefs, who share our value of caring and want to make a difference in the community, to work for us.
Country feels with city crimes
Having completed an English degree at the University of Birmingham and fresh from travelling around the world, Detective Constable Elisabeth Dane wanted a career that would challenge her and decided to join Avon and Somerset Police through Police Now.
‘It might be a cliché but I enjoy the countryside and the lifestyle, plus being near the coast works for me for the things I like doing in my spare time’
Find out why Elisabeth decided to join the police, her advice for Police Now applicants, and what it’s like being a detective in Bristol’s Bridgwater ward.
Core requirements
To be eligible to join Avon and Somerset 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 Avon and Somerset Police and all the steps you’ll go through in becoming a police officer with Police Now.
