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FRONTLINE LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME

The next move for leaders like you

The Police Now Frontline Leadership Programme is a one-year development programme which prepares police officers with high leadership potential for promotion to leadership roles in frontline policing.

The programme is focused on developing your potential regardless of background or career route. It’s a programme for police officers who want to positively change the destiny of communities, leading from the front in ways that build trust and confidence in our police service.

It supports talented police officers from all backgrounds and pays particular attention to the barriers often faced by officers from underrepresented groups.

Lead the change

Prepare yourself for promotion

Achieving promotion is challenging. This programme will give you knowledge and tools you can use to build your skills and develop the mindset you need to achieve promotion. It builds on your existing experience to embed the leadership skills and foundational knowledge you’ll need to be successful in the promotion process. You’ll gain an understanding of how to navigate promotion, working with a Police Now Progression and Development Officer to understand your force-specific promotion process.

With a shortage of sergeants predicted in policing by 2024, this programme offers you the opportunity to move into a prime position to progress your career and fill this shortage with confidence.

You’ll come away with a renewed drive and urgency to continue your own development and progress, inspired to push for change within your force and your communities.

This is your opportunity to take the next step in your journey with Police Now as part of a unique group of officers who joined policing to drive change in the police service and in society. It’s your chance to lead that change at the next level of seniority.

ARE YOU READY TO LEAD THE CHANGE?

It’s the work you put in that makes you right for the job

It takes determination and commitment to lead positive change.

Promotion brings greater responsibility and opportunity to lead change, for your team and for the communities you serve. This programme is designed specifically for police officers who want to positively change the destiny of communities, leading from the front in ways that build trust and confidence in our police service.

We use innovative learning techniques to develop disruptive leaders equipped to tackle current and future policing challenges. Our curriculum teams are made up of educationalists and policing professionals using best practice techniques that build operational confidence.

Evidence-based problem solving and emotional intelligence, particularly empathy, are essential leadership skills in policing for building public confidence, valuing diversity and difference and making sure officers are equipped to deal with the range of emotional situations they will find on the policing frontline. The programme produces leaders who can address long term challenges and lead positive change, building frontline effectiveness and strengthening teams within the police service. It will equip you to tackle current and future policing challenges with the highest level of policing practice and leadership capability.

You’ll be part of a culture of innovation, with a leadership mindset and approach that will serve you for your next promotion opportunity and allow you to succeed and thrive throughout your entire career.

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Since 2015, Police Now has recruited over 1,800 police officers, with 26 officers promoted so far.

You’ll be fully supported with specialist knowledge and resources across the whole one year programme:

Thought leaders in the police: You’ll be exposed to the innovative learning techniques that develop disruptive leaders, equipping you to tackle current and future policing challenges.
Peer support: You’ll be part of a peer group drawn from forces across England and Wales, sharing knowledge, experiences, help and advice with officers in the same position as you.
National networks: As part of the Police Now family you’ll have access to a national network that will serve you with help and advice across your entire career.

"It is an amazing opportunity, once you step into that leadership role, to start to shape the organisation."

Upile Mtitimila | Detective Sergeant, Cheshire Constabulary

Hear from our people

Do you have what it takes to lead the change? Seeking promotion is a big step in your career. Hear why the Frontline Leadership Programme is the next step in your journey.

Shaping policing through equal representation

Upile Mtitimila | Detective Sergeant, Cheshire Constabulary

Leading from the front as a woman

Millie Tanner | Temporary Inspector, Thames Valley Police

Take the next step in your career

Upile Mtitimila | Detective Sergeant, Cheshire Constabulary

Grab the opportunity to lead the change

Millie Tanner | Temporary Inspector, Thames Valley Police

Why Police Now is so unique

Eunice Ansah | Police Now Programme Events Officer

Key components of the Frontline Leadership Programme

Pippa Mildred | Police Now Policing Ambassadors and Communities Manager

Could this be you?

Can you lead from the front and inspire others with your actions? Are you ready to take the next step in your career?

Your ability to take action makes you the leader we need.

Prepare to meet your ambition.

CHANGE REPRESENTATION IN senior ranks

Diversity drives innovation and significantly improves performance on the frontline.

Developing a diverse group of exceptional police officers who are representative of the communities they serve is essential in building public trust and improving effectiveness in frontline policing. Better representation leads to a stronger understanding of the challenges faced by our communities. In turn, this means more effective solutions that are better suited to the needs of our communities.

This programme will increase diversity in operational senior ranks, supporting talented police officers from all backgrounds and paying particular attention to the barriers often faced by officers from underrepresented groups. It’s a way for officers from underrepresented groups to prepare for promotion and to thrive in frontline leadership roles.

Upile Mtitimila | Detective Sergeant, Cheshire Constabulary

“Equal representation is so important in senior ranks because that's where critical decisions are made that shape an entire organisation and institution and a police force."

HAVE AN IMPACT IN COMMUNITIES

The programme focuses on building a culture of leadership and innovation to tackle long-standing policing challenges in communities challenged by crime, building operational effectiveness and strengthening teams within the police service.

So far, we’ve successfully recruited over 1800 high performing police and detective constables leading positive change in their communities.

Communities where our programme participants operate show an 11.7% reduction in recorded anti-social behaviour (compared to 7.2% with no Police Now participant), and a 17% increase in young people’s (16-24-year olds) confidence in the police (compared with 3% increase without a Police Now participant).

This programme will produce sergeants and inspectors who can represent all communities, champion positive change, build trust, and address long-term challenges, so that everyone in society, especially the most vulnerable, has a chance to thrive.

Apply now

The first cohort for the programme will be inducted on 1st September 2021, so please apply as soon as you're ready as places are limited.

We're currently accepting applications from the following forces:

If your force is not participating this time round, please register your interest to stay updated with future cohorts.

Be the leader
you want to see

FRONTLINE LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME

The next move for leaders like you