At Suffolk Constabulary, we are proud to serve our communities and committed to our mission of ‘Keeping Suffolk Safe’. We are seeking exceptional leaders from within Suffolk Constabulary and across UK policing, including substantive Chief Inspectors seeking promotion and substantive Superintendents seeking a level transfer. We want this process to provide an equal opportunity for talented internal and external candidates to demonstrate what they can bring to senior leadership in Suffolk.
We welcome applications from leaders who share our commitment to serving communities, supporting colleagues and making Suffolk a safer place to live, work, travel and invest. We are looking for people who embody our values of being courageous, professional, community-focused and compassionate, and who can turn those values into visible leadership, strong performance and excellent public service.
As a Superintendent, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of policing across Suffolk. Our emerging performance framework asks six simple but stretching questions: are we preventing crime and protecting those most at risk; responding effectively when the public needs us; investigating crime well and providing a good service to victims; bringing offenders to justice; delivering effective neighbourhood policing and improving public confidence; and maintaining the organisational health, capability and resilience needed to deliver effective policing. As a senior leader, you will help turn those questions into better outcomes for our communities and our workforce.
What We’re Looking For:
Lead with integrity, authenticity and humility, setting clear standards, demonstrating personal accountability and taking responsibility for performance.
Think strategically while maintaining a strong operational focus, understanding risk, demand and the experience of the public, and translating strategic priorities into effective delivery.
Use evidence, insight and professional judgement to drive performance, identifying what needs to improve and turning that understanding into clear action and better outcomes.
Inspire, support and develop others, building capability, talent and resilience while championing inclusion, wellbeing and a positive workforce culture.
Build strong partnerships and collaborative relationships, working across organisational boundaries to prevent harm, protect vulnerable people and achieve better outcomes.
Lead innovation, productivity, transformation and continuous improvement, challenging existing approaches and identifying opportunities to deliver better and more effective services.
Place communities, victims, fairness and public confidence at the heart of decision-making, ensuring policing remains responsive, inclusive and focused on those it serves.
Successful candidates will join a force committed to ‘Keeping Suffolk Safe’, with the opportunity to lead across the full breadth of our policing mission: prevention and protection; contact and response; investigations and victim service; bringing offenders to justice; neighbourhood policing and public confidence; and organisational health and capability. We are looking for leaders who are curious about performance, ambitious for improvement and able to create the conditions in which our people can deliver their best work.
Appointments are to the rank of Superintendent rather than to a specific post, with substantive roles allocated following the process. We expect opportunities across both detective and uniformed portfolios. In Suffolk, however, Superintendent leadership is deliberately broad: colleagues should expect to serve beyond the boundaries of a substantive posting, contribute to force-wide portfolios and undertake relevant command and rota responsibilities. Our detective and uniformed leaders work as one senior operational cadre, and it is not unusual for detective Superintendents to develop and maintain wider command capabilities, including Strategic Firearms Commander or public order/public safety command, where appropriate.
