Police Constable Entry Programme (PCEP)

This route is to join our PCEP programme, it is a two-year long training programme. You will spend the first 23 weeks in our training centre, learning about law and legislation, officer safety training, investigative skills, safeguarding vulnerable people, operational skills and power, community and partnership working, IT systems and undertaking a job-related fitness test. As you leave the training centre, you will then go on to your allocated station. You will spend ten weeks with a tutor constable who will monitor and assess your progress, then you will go onto independent patrols and continued to be assessed for the remainder of the two-year programme.

After 33 weeks you’ll reach independent patrol status and you’ll be allocated to a station for the remainder of your two-year programme where you will learn ‘on the job’. In Year 2, you will receive a further 5 weeks of classroom-based learning designed to strengthen critical thinking and problem solving in the operational Policing arena. The program will culminate in summative assessments of your knowledge and operational learning and practice, leading to full operational competence and confirmation in rank. You’ll be fully assisted and given everything you need to succeed.

Throughout your training your leave will be pre-booked. If you have any prior holidays or arrangements, throughout this period, we will not be able to accommodate these and will not be able to offer you a place on this cohort.

This route is only available to candidates who hold 2 A levels or a level 3 qualification or in their final year of study.