We’re offering applications for Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs).
As a Police Community Support Officer, you can make a direct contribution to your local community. Our PCSOs play a vital role in offering a reassuring presence to the public, helping to fight crime and anti-social behaviour, and forging stronger relationships within the communities we serve.
PCSOs work in Neighbourhood Policing Teams to improve the quality of life for residents and make their area safer, by proactively tackling crime and anti-social behaviour (ASB).
Being a Police Community Support Officer is both exciting and rewarding. It calls for strong powers of observation, communication, judgment and problem-solving.
The role involves evening and weekend shift work, including working some weekends and evenings to 11pm, and you may be required to work at various locations across the county.
Becoming a PCSO offers a full or part time opportunity with the flexibility to fit around you, however the hours requested will need to fit in with operational requirements.
The starting salary including shift allowance for all new recruits is £31,749 for individuals working full time (37 hours per week) and working the full shift pattern.
The salary, with shift allowance, will increase to a maximum of £38,169 based on length of service and performance related pay.
You will be eligible to join the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS). This is a contributory Career Average Revalued Earnings (CARE) scheme to which the Constabulary as the employer contributes to as well.
As a full time PCSO, we’ll offer you a minimum of 178 hours of annual leave (24 days), with the potential to increase up to 222 hours (30 days), dependent on your hours of work and length of service. You will also receive eight days of public holidays. Your annual leave entitlement will be confirmed when you begin your role.
To enable us to deliver outstanding policing for everyone, we need people from all backgrounds with a range of professional and life experiences so that we are truly representative of our communities.
All applicants are required to have at least 3 years residency in the UK.
If you are a current serving PCSO in another force and are interested in transferring over to Hertfordshire, please email recruitment@bch.police.uk and we can review this request, you will still need to apply under this advert.
Additional Information
All internal applicants must have successfully completed their probationary period to apply for this role.
This vacancy is live to those at risk of redundancy and will remain open to redeployees until the conditional offer stage throughout the recruitment process. Redeployees will take priority over other applicants at any point during the recruitment process up until conditional offer. If a redeployee is successful and accepts an offer, they will remain on their home force’s terms and conditions.
As a Disability Confident leader, we take personal responsibility to help create an inclusive workplace, where police officers and staff respect one another, feel valued for their differences and can be themselves. We are committed to providing workplace adjustments, wherever needed so everyone feels welcome and can flourish. If you have a disability and you meet the minimum criteria for the position you are applying for, you will be entitled to an interview under the ‘Offer an Interview Scheme’.
Applicants must hold a full UK manual driving licence at the time of application. This is a mandatory requirement for all Police Community Support Officers
We are unable to accept applications without these main entry requirements.
Please note: This role has been identified as high-risk in relation to potential DNA and fingerprint contamination within forensic processes. As such, successful candidates will be required to provide a DNA and Fingerprint elimination sample as part of their pre-employment checks.
The sample will be used to conduct a speculative search against our database and then solely for contamination elimination purposes and held on a secure elimination database in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and GDPR.
Provision of this sample is a condition of employment for roles identified as high-risk.
It is recommended that you download and store a copy of the role profile as this will no longer be available once the advert has closed.
This advert will close on Sunday 31st May 2026 at 23:55pm
