Police Officer - Pre-join programme for those with a degree in professional policing
Pre-Join
Description - Two-year entry programme that doesn’t require you to study for a degree within your probation, aimed at individuals who have graduated with a Degree in Professional Policing or are in their final year of completing. The Pre-join training includes an element of classroom-based learning at the initial stages of your training, however mainly focuses on practical on-the-job learning enabling you to put the theory you have already learnt within your degree to practice.
University involvement – No
Qualification following completion – None
Detective route – No, this is not a Detective route. Once you have accepted an offer to begin on this route, you are unable to switch to the detective route. However, after successfully completing your initial training and becoming a fully qualified, substantive police officer, you will have the opportunity to apply for the internal detective academy pathway. This will allow you to pursue a career as a detective after gaining the necessary experience and fulfilling your initial obligations as a police officer.
Training – In-house training delivered within WMP classrooms and via on-the job practical learning.
Have you completed your Professional Policing Degree, or are close to graduating? Your next step in your Policing career starts here with West Midlands Police!
Your degree will have taught you plenty about policing but the next step is where we bring that theory to life.
As a Police Officer you'll play a vital role in ensuring that the communities of the West Midlands are kept safe. It isn’t easy, but it is rewarding and can be a career like no other. We want people to join us who have a range of life experiences and backgrounds; it is vitally important that we represent all of the communities that we serve.
You will be at the forefront of maintaining law and order, protecting the vulnerable, and ensuring the safety of our community. Becoming a police officer is a hugely rewarding career, although it can be challenging at times. It opens up opportunities to develop personally and professionally whilst making a positive difference to your community.
About the Pre-Join entry route for graduates of the Professional Policing Degree
This is the right route for you if you have achieved, or are in your final year, of the Degree in Professional Policing that has been licensed and validated by the College of Policing. A full list of the universities offering this programme can be found here; only students or graduates of this course are able to apply for this route.
Your formal training will take place alongside your practical work in one of our many policing teams across the West Midlands. After an initial training period, you’ll get your uniform, join a team, and begin two years of practical learning that will shape your policing career.
You will have already completed the theory of becoming a Police Officer through your degree, now is the chance to put it all into practice. Although some classroom training will be mandatory, we want to ensure you learn how to become a great Officer with ‘on the job’ training.
Ensuring our Police Officers have plenty of development opportunities is high on our agenda; once you have successfully completed the two year probationary period you will be able to consider further opportunities including promotion and specialisms within the Force. You could choose to work within Firearms, with our Dogs, with Complex Investigations, our Drone department or on Roads Policing; the possibilities are limitless!
For more information, check out our website here: Police Officer Recruitment | West Midlands Police (west-midlands.police.uk)
You are not able to progress for more than one entry route; please apply for the route which is most suited to you, this includes both Police Constable and Detective Constable positions.
What’s in it for you?
You will start on £29,907, per annum and this will increase with yearly increments meaning you can earn up to £48,231 within 7 years of starting your training!
You will receive an excellent pension, a generous annual leave allocation, free access to support services, you will qualify for a Blue Light Discount card and be able to access sport and social club facilities.
Are you Eligible?
Qualifications:
- Have achieved a Degree in Professional Policing that has been licensed and validated by the College of Policing
- OR be in the final year of study for your Professional Policing Degree
Only final certificates for the above qualifications will be accepted, and these must be attached to your application.
Medical/Fitness:
When applying for the role candidates must be able/ready to run the bleep test to a level of 5.4
Residency and Nationality:
Candidates are required to be UK resident for the last three years. You must be a British, Irish or EEA National, alternatively you must have no restrictions on your right to live and work in the UK.
Are you ready to put your learning into practice? Submit your application today!
About Us
West Midlands Police is England’s second largest police force. Together we serve the 2.9 million people who call the region home - one of the youngest and most diverse populations in Europe.
Our vision is to be recognised as a police service that is big enough to cope with everything that is asked of us, while showing we are small enough to care about the things that really matter to people.
Together we will fulfil our mission of working in partnership, making communities safer.
Benefits for employees of West Midlands Police Force include:
- The opportunity to work in a wide range of policing departments
- Extensive training and development throughout your career
- Annual leave purchase scheme
- Generous pension scheme
- Family Friendly Employer - Enhanced Maternity/Paternity/Adoption Leave and Childcare Vouchers - save up to £900 a year
- Access to EAP (Employer Assistance Programme)
- Social clubs, sports clubs, and regional events
- Discounts on gym memberships, travel and leisure, homeware and tech
- Blue light card membership eligibility - over 15,000 discounts from large national retailers, including special member events across the UK
- Police Mutual - access to affordable private healthcare, mortgage services and much more
Leave Entitlement - 22 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after five years
West Midlands Police is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
We are committed to delivering a fair and inclusive recruitment process and ensuring that no applicant is disadvantaged because of their disability. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the be made to our recruitment process, please let us know. All information shared will be kept confidential.
Guaranteed Interview Schemes:
As a Disability Confident Leader and we operate a Disability Confident Interview Scheme. All candidates who share with us that they are disabled and meet the essential criteria for the role will be offered an interview*.
As a proud signatory of the Armed Services Covenant and Care Leaver Covenant, West Midlands Police also operate a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for Military Service Leavers and Care Leavers who meet the minimum role requirements.
*There may be times we cannot interview all disabled people who meet the essential criteria for the job. For example, seasonal and high-peak times. In these situations, we may limit the number of interviews offered to disabled and non-disabled people. In these circumstances, we will select the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job.
Prospective officers and staff must be held to a higher standard of behaviour and accountability than members of the public, and that therefore their right to privacy can be fettered in certain circumstances. This is to ensure that members of the police are fully aware and accountable for the unique powers entrusted to them and the standards of professional behaviour they swear to uphold.
Contact – For more information please contact careers@westmidlands.police.uk
Vetting – Successful applicants will be required to pass Recruitment Vetting and Counter Terrorism Clearance scrutiny prior to commencing their role, this will include a full background & financial disclosure as part of the vetting process.
Medical - Appointment to this role will be dependent upon successfully medical checks, which may include a drugs test and if required a fitness test