To foster connections and collaboration amongst our ambassadors to share knowledge, expertise, and ongoing support. Police Now actively facilitate the conditions for ambassadors to innovate, improve, develop, and adopt new ways of working which strive to break the link between crime and deprivation.
Police Now’s Ambassador Network is a group of self-organising individuals with a range of experience, skills, knowledge, and backgrounds who are united by their motivation to achieve Police Now’s mission. Lead Ambassadors are leaders amongst peers and ‘co-authors’ of the Police Now Ambassador Network. It is their role to galvanise other ambassadors in our collective work towards achieving Police Now’s vision in the long term.
To date, 17 Lead Ambassadors have been trained and onboarded across ten of our partner forces, with these numbers set to grow in the coming months. Together, Police Now’s Lead Ambassadors have started to create their own mentoring groups, begun to expand the Police Now Affinity Networks, and are aiming to organise a diversity and inclusion forum.
The development of Innovation activity later this year serves to ‘spark the art of the possible’ for Police Now’s ambassadors. We are supporting ambassadors to think creatively about some of the most deeply entrenched problems within both the communities they serve and the police service itself. Where appropriate, the highest potential mission-aligned ideas may be supported by Police Now.
To provide tailored support to increase the number of ambassadors who are successful in gaining substantive promotion to Sergeant or a place on the Fast Track Programme.
The Promotion Support Pathway has been created for current and previous Police Now officers and Syndicate Leads applying to move up the ranks within policing. It is designed to give these individuals the confidence, support, and tools they need to perform well in their promotion applications, interviews, and exams. We also support them to be effective in role through ongoing development.
Supporting our participants and ambassadors into more senior roles in policing will continue the drive to transform communities and policing. We are committed to contributing to increasing the diversity of those in leadership positions within policing and are developing a comprehensive positive action strategy to support this. This year we are supporting over 50 ambassadors to join the College of Policing’s Fast Track Programme and become substantive Sergeants.
To actively support alumni to develop their professional skills throughout their career to maximise their effectiveness in role.
The Professional Development Pathway will support officers to maximise their effectiveness in role and their impact within the force and communities they serve. Police Now’s aim is to offer a clear map of where our ambassadors can go in order to access existing professional development resources within the sector, as well as creating specific opportunities in response to the needs of our ambassadors.