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Dorset Police
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Dorset Police jobs
Olivia Hall | Police Now Graduate
The area served by Dorset Police includes the urban centres of Bournemouth, Poole, and Christchurch, as well as the wider Dorset county.
Dorset has over 770,000 residents and over 25 million day visits are made there every year.
With urban and coastal towns, vast rural landscapes and over 140 miles of coastline, this diverse region offers a wide variety of policing challenges and opportunities for those who want to join the force.
Dorset Police
Police Now works in partnership with Dorset Police to attract, train and develop graduates to become police officers who transform communities
- Chief Constable: Amanda Pearson
- Headquarters: Winfrith, Dorchester
- Areas include: Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch, Weymouth, and Portland.
Upile Mtitimila | Police Now Graduate
Dorset Police recruitment
Our focus on diversity and inclusion
Dorset 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.
Why join?
By joining Dorset Police through Police Now’s National Graduate Programme, you’ll benefit from our unique range of support and development features specially designed to develop your career and your impact in policing.
Core requirements
To be eligible to join Dorset Police, you must:
- Have achieved, or be working towards, a 2.2 undergraduate degree 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 (if you don't yet have your licence, you must have your practical driving test booked at the point of application).
Before you apply, make sure you read our full eligibility criteria.
