Career Pathways in policing
Response policing
Response policing is the area of policing that primarily responds to emergency and non-emergency calls from members of the public. Response policing teams are made up of constables and a sergeant with a response inspector overseeing a number of teams.
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Neighbourhood policing
Neighbourhood policing is used to describe the teams of police officers, police staff and PCSOs that police or support policing within the local community.
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Roads policing
Often referred to as ‘traffic’, roads policing describes the job family that are responsible for policing the road network.
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Intelligence
Intelligence is making use of information from a variety of sources to support local and national crime investigations. Information can come from members of the public, victims, witnesses, suspects, community sources and specialist police intelligence operatives to build a picture of criminal activity.
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Investigation
The investigation job family covers people who may be warranted detective officers and can also include civilian investigators. Whilst all officers will conduct some investigations, those in this job family will conduct serious and complex criminal investigations.
This document provides information about the potential career options within the Investigation job family.
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