Police Officer - Detective Constable Entry Programme

As a Detective, you will be involved in handling serious and complex investigations, motivated by the desire to do the right thing and bring justice to victims. Your work will be demanding but rewarding, requiring strong problem-solving skills, effective communication, patience, attention to detail, and a commitment to serving the community and ensuring public safety. Most importantly, teamwork will be a key part of your day-to-day job, working collaboratively with social care, health teams and schools, working alongside your uniformed colleagues to build the strongest cases. Programme outline: Year one: A blended learning programme delivered by TVP with six months initial learning based at our Training Centre in Sulhamstead near Reading or Kidlington. This is followed by 16 weeks with an Incident and Crime Response Team (ICR), in uniform and working the ICR shift pattern, during which time you will be partnered with a tutor constable. Following this, student officers will go straight
into a detective role within their designated investigation team (Priority Crime Team, Criminal Investigation Department or Domestic Abuse Investigation Unit) where further tutoring and operational work-based learning will take place. In year one, operational training will include officer safety training, making an arrest and how to conduct a stop and search, amongst other things. During year one, student DC's will also apply for and take the National Investigators' Exam (NIE). Year two: During the second year of the programme you will undertake two further periods of training: - Serious and Complex Crime Interviewing (SACCI): a two-week course which delivers the foundations to empower participants to understand the theory and develop the practical skills to undertake witness & suspect interviews for serious and complex criminal investigations. - Investigators' Development Programme (IDP): a four-week course which equips investigators with the knowledge, skills and processes
associated with serious and complex investigations. Following these courses you will begin working towards the completion of your Level 2 Professionalising Investigation Programme qualification (PIP2 Portfolio). Having completed the DCEP programme and requisite portfolios you become an accredited DC and a whole world of roles and opportunities opens up within some of our specialist investigative teams.