Times Top 100 Graduate Employer Police Now has published its 10-year impact report – ‘A Decade of Transformation’ – evidencing ten years of driving diversity and innovation within policing and its lasting social and economic value for communities.
Over the last ten years, Police Now has been at the forefront of innovating police recruitment and training to bring new talent, perspectives and difference into policing – pioneering direct-entry pathways into neighbourhood policing, detective, counter terrorism and economic crime specialisms.
It has recruited over 3,400 officers to 37 forces across England and Wales via its National Graduate Programme – whilst being 2.8 times more cost-effective than traditional police recruitment methods, according to independent analysis.
On average, Police Now officers also contribute 400 more community hours during their two-year training compared to peers on other entry routes; spending more time on the frontline with the public they serve.
Based on societal cost savings linked to crime reduction, recruitment and community impact, Police Now has generated £13.77 value of return for every £1 invested in the organisation.
Gavin Stephens QPM, Chair of National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) said: “Police Now is a welcome source of innovation for policing in England and Wales. Over the last ten years, I have seen first-hand the quality and difference of many of the new officers that they and their partner forces have recruited together. It’s an initiative that I and the NPCC remain pleased to support.”
While being more cost-effective, Police Now has also been more successful in attracting diverse talent to the frontline than forces nationally – with more women and individuals from ethnic minority backgrounds consistently recruited at higher rates to Police Now’s programme compared to national police recruitment efforts.
Of those recruited to Police Now’s 2025 cohort, 21% of participants are from an ethnic minority background and 60% are female – compared to 10% and 38% of those recruited into policing respectively via other routes between March 2024 and April 2025.
Police Now vows to continue to play a part in driving much needed culture change in policing, by bringing in more of the right people. People who work with courage and integrity. People the organisation can support to uphold standards, challenge effectively, and role model the behaviour that is rightly expected of frontline leaders. People who always put victims and the public at the heart of what they do.
Reflecting on the past decade, Kurtis Christoforides, Police Now’s Chief Executive Officer, said: “The policing landscape, and arguably the social landscape, is more challenging than it was a decade ago. The mission isn’t complete. There’s much more still to do, and greater need than ever for brilliant people to do it. But I couldn’t feel prouder of the start that we have made.”
Read the organisation’s full report – A Decade of Transformation – which includes further analysis, insights and quotes from partners and officers who were recruited and trained on the national programme.
