New Police Now trainee detectives for Devon and Cornwall Police

Thirteen new trainee detective constables landed in Devon and Cornwall Police on Monday, 26th June, having just completed Police Now’s National Detective Programme academy.
The 13-week residential academy began in March, when almost 230 new officers, who all join their respective forces across England and Wales today, began their intensive training together. They have developed the core policing skills and knowledge required for complex investigative work, in a mix of practical and classroom-based sessions led by experienced sergeants seconded from Police Now’s partner forces. They have also completed field training shifts in their force Response teams and Criminal Investigation Departments. Police Now officers sit the challenging National Investigators’ Exam at the academy and consistently achieve a higher-than-average first-time pass rate. At this year’s detective academy, there was an average first-time pass rate of 75% compared to the national average of 59%. 
They now continue Police Now’s two-year training and development programme in force, where they will play an integral part in solving cases and supporting victims of crime across Devon and Cornwall. Supported by their experienced colleagues and Police Now Performance and Development Coaches, they will be Professionalising Investigation Programme Level 2 (PIP2) certified by the end of the two-year programme. 
Founded in 2014, Police Now is now an independent charitable social enterprise with a mission to transform communities, reduce crime and anti-social behaviour, and increase the public’s confidence in the police service by recruiting, developing and inspiring outstanding and diverse individuals to be leaders in society and on the policing frontline. As a registered charity, they aim to bring improvements to society, and to support police forces to deliver improved outcomes for communities, not to profit as an organisation. All police officers who join the police service via Police Now are warranted members of one of our partner police forces, with the full legal powers and responsibilities of the office of constable.  
Police Now’s two-year National Graduate Leadership Programme and two-year National Detective Programme recruit, train and develop outstanding graduates with a commitment to public service. Participants work as neighbourhood police officers in the most deprived communities in England and Wales or as trainee detective constables supporting victims of crime and bringing offenders to justice.   
Police Now’s new Frontline Leadership Programme is a one-year development programme which prepares police constables with high leadership potential for promotion to sergeant rank.
Police Now has partnered with 36 police forces in England and Wales and are funded by participating police forces and the Home Office. 
Assistant Chief Constable Sharn Basra of Bedfordshire Police delivered a keynote address to the new officers at the academy closing ceremony, in his last ever policing appearance before officially retiring that week. He said: “I look over the room, as I come to the end of my career, and I see the future of policing. You will change policing and you will improve policing for the better. I have no doubt that during your academy training you have worked hard, you have been professional and you have had fun. Continue to do this throughout the next stages of your training and the rest of your policing careers. Policing is tough, you will have some bad days, you will see things that other people won’t see and you will experience things that other people shouldn’t have to experience. But you will change people’s lives and you will save people’s lives. The good days will always overtake the bad, as you support those that need you the most and secure justice for victims.”
Trainee Detective Constable Kellen Moore, who joins Devon and Cornwall Police today via the programme, said: “As someone that has always dreamed of a career as a detective, I could not have been more excited when I learnt about the Police Now programme and the opportunity it could provide me. I was not absolutely certain that I had what it takes, but can honestly say after 13 weeks of constant support, guidance and invaluable transfer of knowledge, I no longer feel this way and cannot wait to get started in force.”
Police Now is a Times Top 100 Graduate Employer and has partnered with a total of 36 forces to recruit and train over 2,680 police officers and detectives nationally.
Applications for the next intake of the National Detective Programme are currently open.
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