Police Officer – DHEP DC only

Location: Forcewide – Devon and Cornwall

Salary: £28,551 per annum

The Role

Constables play a critical front-line role in the prevention and detection of crime and the criminal justice system. Constables work in partnership on a day-to-day basis with local communities, stakeholders and colleagues in order to promote law and order, reduce the fear of crime, provide reassurance and build confidence to improve the quality of life for citizens.

This role carries legal powers to enable the maintenance of law and order and bears responsibility for making autonomous decisions in accordance with the National Decision Model and Code of Ethics, exercising professional discretion, as appropriate to the role, in line with legal frameworks and policy guidelines.

Constables are required to meet and maintain the highest professional standards required of their role, by conducting all actions in a legal, balanced, proportionate and justifiable manner to uphold the law and achieve the best outcomes in a wide range of situations/incidents.

Skills and Qualifications

• Typically, a PC is likely to have achieved a Level 3 qualification (or equivalent) prior to entry.
• Completed mandatory assessments on recruitment
• Forces are implementing the new entry routes into policing which require new entrants to work towards and achieve (or to already hold) a Level 6 qualification. This will be via one of the new entry route options: a Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship, Degree-Holder Entry Programme or a Pre-join Professional Policing Degree.
• A version of the IPLDP will remain in place for use by some forces for a short period of time (to mid-2021) as part of the transition to the new entry routes into policing, after which it will be replaced by the three new entry routes only

To Apply

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