All Police Jobs was born out of a visit by our co-director Tina Orr-Munro to the Police Federation of England and Wales Annual Conference in 2007.

A journalist covering the conference for the police press, Tina happened to watch the then Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police Peter Neyroud lament the millions of pounds of public money wasted advertising police jobs and questioned why there wasn’t a national police jobs site.

With her public service background in policing and education, this very much resonated with Tina so she recruited her now co-director Richard Place and IT developer Stephen Chamberlain to develop a website with one mission... save the police service money.

However, the team quickly hit a snag. Police recruitment departments were and are over stretched. They certainly didn't have time to post their jobs to yet another untried and untested job website.

We risked falling at the first hurdle.

Convinced a national police jobsite was still the right way forward, the team sought a way around this.

We developed highly innovative software that automatically collected all live police vacancies from police force websites in England and Wales.

These live jobs were then fed into a dedicated website and All Police Jobs was born.
We were the first, and to our knowledge, are still the only organisation offering this unique approach to public sector recruitment.

Today, we still collect and advertise all police force jobs. Alongside this, however, we also offer tools that allow police forces access to powerful data, and boosting strategies proven to boost applicants to hard-to-fill jobs and meet the requirements of the Angiolini report to increase female recruits into policing.

We are proud to be top of Google for multiple search terms, a position we've held for many years now, as we still remember the excitement when we launched, watching the website creep its way to the top, page by page!

We now receive over a million visitors a year resulting in numerous applicants as well as rich and unique data allowing us to identify patterns in police recruitment which we use to continue to support police recruitment departments.

If you're a police force wishing to boost your applicants including for your hard-to-fill jobs, contact Richard@chestnutmedia.co.uk today.



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