2025 - Chief Inspector Promotion Boards

Gloucestershire is a largely rural county with two large urban conurbations including the City of Gloucester and Cheltenham Spa. We are home to two Royal Households and a number of significant events attracting national attention throughout the year, including the National Hunt Festival at Cheltenham Racecourse and the Royal International Air Tattoo in Fairford. There is a strong military presence in the county as well as an important Government footprint.

Gloucestershire Constabulary is launching a rapid improvement plan to drive fast paced change to achieve ‘excellence in the basics’. Under the leadership of T/CC Maggie Blyth and DCC Katy Barrow-Grint, the plan will focus our efforts on four clear priorities: investigating crime, safer communities, an efficient organisation, and ethical leadership. The role offers an exciting opportunity to be part of transformative change: bringing tangible benefits to victims of crime, the wider public, and colleagues within the Constabulary.

We are seeking candidates who have an ability to:

Demonstrate strong supportive leadership and management skills, instil confidence and trust in officers, teams, partners and the wider community.
Ensure they fully understand the performance of their teams at all times, intervening and prompting activity where required. To embed that culture within their teams.
Respond to the challenges of emerging crime, vulnerability and public safety issues.
Readily accept personal accountability while retaining the trust of communities.
Be open to challenge and quick to adapt.
Demonstrate resilience in responding to high pressure and complex situations.
Deliver organisational efficiency and improvement, understanding and exploiting the benefits of technology and good business practice.
Develop and sustain partnerships with a wide range of stakeholders to ensure the best possible service delivery to the community.
Empower, trust and support every individual to succeed among their peers, within their teams and across their partners.
Value difference, diversity and inclusion.
Deliver Wellbeing as an integral element of business as usual.

Applications are invited from both substantive chief inspectors and inspectors on promotion to chief inspector.