Police Community Support Officer - Surrey, United Kingdom - Surrey Police

Surrey Police
Surrey Police
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Surrey, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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We're hiring more Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) and we want you to join us.

As the key link with communities across Surrey, our PCSOs play a critical and visible role in helping keep our communities' safe, identifying and protecting the most vulnerable and preventing harm.

In return, we promise you a good starting salary, great training experiences - and the pride that comes from helping others.

You will also be working towards a professional qualification - a Level 4 Diploma in Community Policing Practice.

The Role

  • We currently have vacancies in the following boroughs:


  • North Division

  • Spelthorne and Elmbridge


  • West Division

  • Guildford, Surrey Heath, Woking and Waverley
  • Our PCSOs play a vital part in keeping Surrey safe.
  • Being a PCSO offers a challenging, yet incredibly rewarding career. Working alongside our Safer Neighbourhood Teams to prevent and tackle local issues; you'll be out and about on the streets of Surrey, building relationships and winning the trust of the public.
  • You will encounter a range of situations. From dealing with antisocial behaviour, taking statements from victims of crimes to providing reassurance and helping resolve community challenges. You'll be the face of local policing for the community, ensuring we meet our policing priorities.
Some of the duties you could find yourself doing include:

  • Conducting high visability patrols on foot, pedal cycle and cars.
  • Reassuring the public after minor crimes or antisocial behaviour.
  • Building relationships with community, religious and business leaders.
  • Working with young people and local schools.
  • Making house visits to gather intelligence.
  • Collecting CCTV evidence.
  • Carrying out missing person enquiries.
  • Protecting crime scenes until police officers arrive.
  • Providing crime prevention and personal safety advice.
  • Offering support at large public gatherings, such as sports events and public demonstrations.


While PCSOs do not have powers of arrest and cannot interview or process prisoners, they do have the power for a wide range of situations including issuing fixed penalty notices, requiring contact details and seizing drugs.


  • By successfully completing the recruitment process, you will join Surrey Police as a PCSO through our 12month apprenticeship programme. This will give you the best possible training and, upon successful completion, you will achieve a Level 4 Diploma in Community Policing Practice.
Eligibility


As the first point of contact for the community, you'll need to be a great communicator; calm, confident and compassionate.

You'll need to be able to listen carefully, think through challenges and find solutions. Above all, you'll simply care about the community and want to do what you can to keep it safe.
It's a challenging role, but also incredibly rewarding.
If you want to help keep your community safe, then join us now and help make a difference, together.

Have a full UK manual driving licence, by time of appointment.
Have leave to enter or leave to remain and work in the UK for an indefinite period.
Not have six penalty points or more
Not be a member of the British National Party (BNP) or other relevant organisations
Not have tattoos which could cause offence
Not have served a prison sentence.

What we offer you

  • For PCSOs the pay and holiday benefits are as follows:
  • Starting salary of £26,109 plus an unsocial hours allowance of £1,675 per annum.


  • Fullyfunded professional qualification

  • Level 4 Diploma in Community Policing Practice.
  • 25 days per year annual leave, rising to 29 days depending on your length of service.
  • A competitive benefits package including pension, flexible benefits, employee assistance programme for advice and counselling, access to discounts / savings /cashback rewards.
  • A progressive approach to flexible working, enhanced maternity and paternity leave and potential for a career break (after two years' service).
  • Opportunities to join various support networks, staff associations and sports clubs. unsocial hours allowance is paid upon successful completion of your training.
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Additional Information

You will commence employment on a fixed-term contract for the length of your apprenticeship. On successful completion of the apprenticeship, you will be moved to a permanent contract.
In addition to standard vetting requirements, this requires the post-holder to successfully pass biometric vetting.

Successful applicants who receive a conditional offer of employment for this role will be required to provide fingerprint and DNA samples by consent.

A speculative search against local and national databases will take place prior to appointment and any final offer of employment will be conditional upon the results meeting the required vetting standard.

Upon appointment the fingerprint and DNA profile for the post-holder will be added and retained on the respective Police Elimination Database (PEDb), to be used for eli
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