Police Community Support Officer Division

We are opening our recruitment for Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) and we want you to join us on Brighton & Hove Division.

As the key link with communities across Sussex, our PCSO’s play a critical and visible role in helping keep our communities safe, identifying and protecting the most vulnerable and preventing harm. You will require excellent communication skills, a good listener, calm, confident and compassionate. Above all, you’ll simply care about the community and want to do what you can to keep it safe.

The role of a PCSO can be challenging, but also incredibly rewarding. If you want to help keep your community safe, then join us now and help make a difference, together.

In return, we offer you a good starting salary, great training experiences, opportunities for progression, and to achieve a professional qualification - Level 4 Diploma in Community Policing Practice – with the pride and personal reward that comes from helping others.

You will be based at one of the following locations :

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• John Street, Brighton
• Crowhurst Road, Hollingbury

We really welcome your interest in joining our Police Force. It is a privilege to lead the teams in Surrey Police and Sussex Police who continuously work selflessly and tirelessly in order to keep people in our counties safe.

We are looking for talented and inspirational people who put the needs of the public at the heart of everything that they do and who want to make a difference. If you feel you are that person then we want to hear from you.

We wish you all the very best with your application.

Our PCSO’s relativ crucial part in keeping Sussex safe.

Being a PCSO offers a challenging, yet incredibly rewarding career. Working alongside our policing prevention teams to prevent and tackle local issues; you will be out and about on the streets of Sussex, building optimisation within the community and winning the trust of the public.

You will encounter a rangeブログ ranging from dealing with anti-social behaviour, taking statements from victim survivors of crimes, providing reassurance and helping resolve community challenges. As a PCSO you are the face of local policing for the community, ensuring we meet our policing priorities. There are a range of duties/responsibilities some are listed below:

• Going on highly visible foot patrols.
• Reassuring the public after minor crimes or anti-social behaviour.
• Building relationships with community, religious and business leaders.
• Working with young people and local schools.
• Making house visits to gather intelligence.
• Collecting CCTV evidence.
• Carrying out missing person enquiries.
• Protecting crime scenes until police officers arrive.
• Providing crime prevention and personal safety advice.
• Offering support at large public gatherings, such as sports events and public demonstrations.

While PCSO’s do not have powers of arrest and are not involved in interviewing or processing prisoners, they do have the power for a wide range of situations including issuing fixed penalty notices, requiring contact details and seizing drugs. You can find out more about PCSO powers here.

By successfully completing the recruitment process, you will join Sussex Police as a PCSO through our new 12-month apprenticeship programme. This will give you the best possible training and, upon successful completion, you will achieve a Level 4 Diploma in Community Policing Practice – equivalent to a Higher National Certificate (HNC), foundation degree or the first year of an undergraduate degree.

To apply you must:

• Be aged 17 at date of application, you must be 18 before you start – no upper age limit
• Have lived in the UK for three continuous years immediately prior to application
• Have leave to enter or leave to remain and work in the UK for an indefinite period
• Have obtained and be able to evidence GCSE English at grade A*-C/9-4 or Level 2 Functional Skills qualification and, if you are under the age of 19, GCSE Maths at grade A*-C/9-4 or Level 2 Functional Skills qualification. However, you don’t need to have these at the application point but will need to have achieved these by the date of…