The Police Now Frontline Leadership Programme is a one-year leadership development programme which prepares police officers with high potential for promotion to leadership roles. The programme is open to all eligible officers from our partner forces who are aiming to progress from constable to sergeant rank.
The programme consists of five in-person taught days, with online learning modules between each taught day designed to consolidate and implement your learning, with support from your dedicated Progression and Development Officer throughout.
The taught days are designed to progressively build your skillset to help you achieve promotion, improve your operational competence, and prepare you to become an outstanding policing leader of the future.
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.
We partner with police forces across England and Wales. Participating forces will select a senior sponsor who’s committed to the success of the Frontline Leadership Programme and will work with Police Now to enable you succeed on the programme. They’ll set the expectation in force that police officers taking part in the programme are expected to apply for promotion at the earliest opportunity.
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?
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.
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.
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.
"I joined the Frontline Leadership Programme because I wanted to utilise the network, learning material, and development opportunities available. What really sold the programme to me was the mock board interview practice, as from previous experience going in front of the board, I knew this was an area I wanted to develop my confidence in.
I think it’s important to take the support that’s offered to you and always strive to learn new skills and develop existing ones, in order to get where you want to be and start affecting real change as a leader in policing."
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.
So far, we’ve successfully recruited over 2,000 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.
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