Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship

You'll build on everything you learn, working in a number of different policing roles, from responding to emergency calls from the public to policing London's neighbourhoods and working directly with communities. Each role will help you advance your skill set, enhance your knowledge and help you gain valuable experience. You'll also be required to complete operational and academic assessments from time to time, including exams, essays and presentations.

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Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship
- Metropolitan Police Careers Training to be provided Your initial training will consist of 17 weeks at Hendon, including a 4 day introduction to the Met. The initial learning at Hendon will include:

• policing, the law and police powers
• protection, vulnerability and public protection
• policing communities, response policing and investigating crime
• police leadership, coaching and mentoring
• officer safety training
• emergency life support
• safeguarding
• crime investigation and operational policing skills

The first four days you will work 08:00 - 16:00 shifts. From then on the shift pattern at Hendon during your training is alternating weeks of earlies and late shifts. It is Mon
- Fri, 07:00 - 15:00 (early), and 14:00 - 22:00 (late). The next ten weeks you will spend working in a police team, based on a London borough. This will be alongside dedicated experienced police officer's acting as 'tutor constables'. This is called street duties, and is where you can put into practice what you have been taught. The remainder of your three years will be spent building on what you have learnt so far.

You'll enhance your skills, experience and knowledge through a number of different policing roles, including working on teams that respond to emergency calls from the public, and as officers policing London's neighbourhoods working with communities. You'll complete further learning in year two, twice for up to three weeks of learning. In your final year, you'll have the opportunity to undertake research into an area of policing you're particularly interested in.

You'll then present your research by way of an academic poster and short briefing. Throughout your training you will need to complete operational and academic assessments. Academic assessments include exams, essays and presentations. Upon successfully completing your three year programme you'll be a fully qualified police constable and will graduate from your degree., 2

You will be asked to complete an online test, known as the  National Sift . The test is made up of two exercises: the Situational Judgement Test (SJT) a Behavioural Styles Questionnaire (BSQ) The exercises will assess if you have the key behaviours and values to join us as a police constable. No prior policing knowledge is required to complete the national sift exercises.

National sift candidate guidance is available on the College of Policing website You can expect this stage of the process to take about two weeks.

The online assessment is made up of three exercises:

• Competency-based interview: use examples from your work and personal life to answer a series of questions.
• Written assessment: complete an urgent written task whilst assuming the role of a police constable.
• Briefing exercise: read the material and answer questions based on what you have read as if you were a police constable.

You should complete this stage within about three weeks of Step 1. You can expect your results within three weeks of completing the assessment. We'll invite you to our Met recruitment centre in South London for an interview focused on our values. If you pass the interview, you'll then be invited to complete a medical and job related fitness test (JRFT).

You can expect your results within four to…