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Safyaan Javid | Police Now Graduate
The area served by Dyfed-Powys Police includes Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and Powys.
Dyfed-Powys Police serves more than 515,000 people, which rises significantly with tourists each year. Almost half of the total resident population is aged 45 and over, and 22% are aged over 65.
32% of the community can speak Welsh: 18.6% in Powys, 47.4% in Ceredigion, 43.9% in Carmarthenshire and 19.3% in Pembrokeshire.
The area has over one million hectares of agricultural land, more than 350 miles of coastline, and stretches from St David’s in the west to Crickhowell in the east, and up to Welshpool and Machynlleth in the north.
Dyfed-Powys Police
Police Now works in partnership with Dyfed-Powys Police to attract, train and develop graduates to become police officers who transform communities
- Chief Constable: Ifan Charles
- Headquarters: Llangunnor, Carmarthen
- Areas include: Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and Powys.
Caroline Anderson | Police Now Graduate
Dyfed-Powys Police recruitment
Our focus on diversity and inclusion
Dyfed-Powys 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.
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By joining Dyfed-Powys 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.
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Core requirements
To be eligible to join Dyfed-Powys 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 Level 1 Welsh language skills, or be willing and able to reach Level 1 by September 2026. This will be supported by a dedicated Welsh Language trainer with lessons and access to an online course.
- Have a full UK manual driving licence.
Before you apply, make sure you read our full eligibility criteria.
