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Police Now signs the Sustainable Recruitment Alliance

We’re extremely proud to be one of the early signatories of the Sustainable Recruitment Alliance, where we’ll be joining Clifford Chance, Blackbridge, and a number of other organisations who have signed a pledge committing to attracting candidates in a sustainable way. What does this mean for us? Organisations who sign up to the pledge are […]

Congratulations to our latest Police Now ambassadors

Congratulations to our National Graduate Leadership Programme participants, who joined us in 2018, on their graduation. […]

Neighbourhood Policing During Lockdown

We managed to catch up with PC Maggie Ashton to get some insight into what life has been like policing during lockdown…. […]

Happy Pride Month

For Pride month, we heard from Joshua Lumsden who after serving in Northumbria Police for six years, recently joined Police Now…. […]

Why I became a Detective with Police Now

“I support Police Now’s aspiration to create a diverse workforce.” Tary Kufa on why she became a detective with the National Detective Programme […]

Why is Police Now’s mission so important right now?

“The mission for Police Now is very timely.” Larry Brown, Trainee Detective Constable, National Detective Programme participant… […]

Why did I want to become a detective?

“Police Now is very diverse in terms of recruitment…” Chris Fanibe talks about his experience so far on the National Detective Programme…. […]

Do you notice?

Do you notice what others don’t?… […]

Transforming communities as a performance athlete

Recently we caught up with Molly who is a neighbourhood police officer for Queens Park, Kilburn…. […]

The Experience of a Stream Manager

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Police Now ‘highest climber’ in The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers

We are delighted to announce Police Now has been voted the ‘highest-climbing employer’ in The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers 2019-20. Over 19,700 university finalists leaving university this summer were asked which employers they thought offered the best graduate opportunities. […]

Join the Police | Be a Force For All

Police: Police Now supporting Home Office in national campaign to recruit graduate leaders into policing • Police Now is working with government, the Home Office and police forces across England and Wales on how to support the uplift in police officers committed to over the next three years, via the Join the Police campaign • […]

Breaking Boundaries – Police Now Impact Conference 2019

At our third annual Impact Conference, Police Now participants and colleagues from across the policing sector heard from and interacted with a variety of speakers on our topic of Breaking Boundaries: Transforming Communities. The event was chaired by Mark Easton, the BBC’s Home News Editor. […]

Divisional Commendation for Police Now officer

PC Karina Puttock, a neighbourhood officer with Sussex Police, has recently been awarded a Divisional Commendation for her work on anti-social behaviour (ASB), crime reduction and prevention. […]

Police Now Board Member Simon Woolley knighted

Earlier this week I was delighted to hear that Simon Woolley, Operation Black Vote’s Director and a member of Police Now’s Board of Trustees, is to be knighted. […]

Winners! The Best Diversity & Inclusion Strategy!

We picked up the TARGETjobs National Graduate Recruitment Award for the best diversity and Inclusion strategy last night! […]

Policing with a disability

This week we hear from PC Rees, a Police Now participant with Hertfordshire Constabulary. PC Rees shares his experience as an officer with a hidden disability. […]

Police Now’s National Detective Programme launch

Police Now’s National Detective Programme launched in March 2019. Police Now’s CEO David Spencer introduces the mission and requirements behind the new Programme. […]

Emma Williams: Teaching and learning at Police Now

I recently attended and presented at two separate one day ‘Evidence Based Policing’ (EBP) masterclasses for Police Now. […]

A day in the life of a Leadership Development Officer

Hi, my name’s Andy and I’m a Leadership Development Officer at Police Now. I’m adding the finishing touches to this blog while on the train heading back home from work. I wanted to take you on a journey into what my life looks like in this role on a day-to-day basis. […]

Results from our poll with Inspector French

If you were a Neighbourhood Police Officer, what would you do? Over recent weeks, a growing number of houses across your local community have been targeted by burglars. The offenders appear to be committing these crimes late at night and have been able to gain access to the properties through insecure patio doors. […]

Veterans Aid and Police Now: the benefits of secondments

During the second year of training with Police Now, participants can apply for an external secondment with one of our partner organisations, or an internal attachment with a specialist unit in their force. […]

Meet our officers – Sophie Duffree

Why did you want to join Police Now? I’ve always wanted to join the police. The programme meant I could do this but also make a difference to a community and have a lasting impact too. […]

Meet our officers – Nadeem Patel

Were you nervous when you first started? How do you feel now? Really nervous. I wasn’t sure what to expect or what my team were going to be like. However, all my fears disappeared pretty quickly. […]

Meet our officers – Jess Cooper

Why did you want to join Police Now? I didn’t like the idea of a desk job and wanted a challenging job with variety. I also liked the opportunity to make a difference that the programme offers by being based in the most deprived areas of the community. […]

Meet our officers – Christopher Brown

Why did you want to join Police Now? I’ve always been intrigued by investigation and problem solving, which is why I chose to do a degree in Forensic Biology. […]

Meet our officers – Antonia Moran

At the time of applying for Police Now I was a Researcher & Teaching Assistant at Newcastle University and I was working towards my PhD. I was interested in applying for Police Now as I saw the opportunity to start a career in policing in one of the most challenging areas with the added structure of the development programme to help me progress. […]

Mini Police need you!

Nick Healey and Graeme Ironside from the Volunteer Police Cadets (VPC) would like to hear from any Police Now participants who would be willing to be involved with the Mini Police. Nick’s blog below provides some information for any Police Now participant interested in social action and future opportunities to engage with the VPC. Mini […]

Engaging young people to break the cycle of knife crime.

Recent crime figures for England and Wales released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that knife crime has risen to record levels. […]

Slipping through the net: Why neighbourhood policing matters

I joined Police Now’s programme last year and wanted to share my experience of how community policing can make a difference. […]

More funding for Police Now recruits

Police Now are delighted to have been awarded further funding to recruit more Police Constables and Trainee Detective Constables. […]

Police Now partnership with The University of Huddersfield

Police Now are pleased to announce a collaborative partnership with the University of Huddersfield, to co-deliver a Graduate Diploma in Professional Policing Practice. […]

Police Now Reflection Event

Police Now’s Reflection Event was the first time Cohort 4 had all been reunited since finishing the Summer Academy a few months ago. […]

Our 2019 Implementation and Best Practice Event: A snap shot

This year we hosted our 2019 partner forces to share best practice and learn more about implementing the Police Now programme next year. […]

Take:90

Police Now has brought together businesses and charities including Calm, London First, The Prince’s Trust, the National Literacy Trust, British Transport Police, Westfield, Facebook, Next, Vice, UNILAD, Mulberry Schools Trust and CBI to launch Take:90. […]

Police Now Annual Impact Conference 2018

Police Now’s second annual Impact Conference brought over 1,000 police officers and supporters together to celebrate Police Now’s impact within and across some of the country’s most deprived communities. […]

Visiting the frontline with Police Now participant PC Brough

Luke Collet-Fenson, Transform Project Manager. I’m currently on secondment to the Transform Alliance from the Civil Service Fast Stream. The Transform Alliance coordinates the actions of five frontline public sector organisations with a shared purpose (Teach First, Unlocked Graduates, Think Ahead, Frontlineand Police Now) where their interests align to create a benefit not possible alone. […]

My first six months in the job – PC Poppy Goldman

What I’ve learnt through my first six months is that policing is a job you simply have to learn through doing. […]

Unconferencing with the Transform Alliance

Dame Julia Cleverdon, Chair of the Transform Alliance, shares her reflections on the inaugural Transform Unconference. […]

Spring Induction 2018

We recently hosted our fourth Spring Induction for the next generation of Police Now officers who will begin their training later this year. […]

The Transform Alliance

Police Now is proud to be part of the Transform alliance of charities committed to delivering systemic change through collective action. […]

Reflections on our independent evaluation

The London Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) has recently completed its evaluation of Police Now’s first cohort in the Met, from July 2015 to July 2017. […]

My day recruiting with Police Now

Hi there – I am James Main and a Sergeant in the Early Intervention Team in Scunthorpe, Humberside Police. We became a partner force with Police Now for the first time in 2017 and have recently had 10 Police Now participants join the force. […]

Police Now programme wins CIPD award

Police Now has recently been put back in the spotlight as its Leadership Development programme beat over 70 entries to win the Best Learning and Development Initiative in the Public & Third Sector at the CIPD People Management Awards. […]

Police Now officers making a difference

At a recent Hundred Day Impact event, Met officer PC Surr, based in Kilburn High Road, presented his work on reducing the anti-social behaviour (ASB) at his neighbourhood’s crime hotspot: a chain restaurant. […]

The Police Transformation Fund

A message from Detective Chief Inspector David Spencer, CEO and co-founder of Police Now. Last week the Home Office announced that Police Now was being awarded a grant from the Police Transformation Fund. The announcement has led to lots of questions, which we’re keen to answer. First, some headline facts: The Police Transformation Fund awarded […]

What it’s really like to work with a Police Now participant

It was early in 2015 when I was first approached and told that a new recruit was being posted to my neighbourhood. […]

Tackling gang crime from a different perspective

PC Nelena Paparisva makes a return appearance on our blog. This time, she writes about her two weeks interning at Accenture, one of Police Now’s partners and her experience tackling gang crime from inside the corporate world. […]

My first three weeks as a police officer

Daniela Pretelt-Harries is a brand new police officer. She started the Police Now Summer Academy three weeks ago. Here she tells us about the parts of the Summer Academy that have impacted her the most. […]

Just another day on the job

PC Joanna Powell is a member of the Police Now 2015 Cohort. Here she provides us with a snapshot into her life as a dedicated ward officer […]

My day on patrol with a teacher-turned-police officer

Brett Wigdortz, Founder and CEO of Teach First, joins one of our officers, PC Bem Jordan on the beat in Forest Gate, London […]

First day nerves and building confidence

PC Ed Horley is the latest of our contributors to the Police Now blog who are members of the 2015 cohort […]

An introduction to evidence based policing and community policing

We’ve spent the last week at the Police Now Assessment Centre starting to identify which of our 1,248 applicants are going to join us next summer as members the first Police Now cohort. […]

The assessment centres

We’ve spent the last week at the Police Now Assessment Centre starting to identify which of our 1,248 applicants are going to join us next summer as members the first Police Now cohort. […]