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For Police officer applications submitted to South Wales Police, make sure you:
You will be asked to provide the following as part of your Police officer application. It is therefore important you have ready:
Please be aware, once you have submitted your application if any issues are found with the above documents our Recruitment team will make contact to clarify information or request updated documents. This will cause a delay to the processing of your application.
While you are able to submit simultaneous applications to other forces for the role of Police Officer and other policing roles, it is South Wales Police policy to ask you to make a decision as to which force you wish to proceed with if you are successful at the national assessment centre, we appreciate your co-operation with this.
If you have a Police Officer application in with another Force you must declare this when submitting an application to South Wales Police, regardless of what stage of the recruitment process you are at with that application.
If you make a new Police Officer application to another Force, or are invited to an assessment centre, whilst your application to South Wales Police is still being processed you must inform our Recruitment team.
If you have attended a national assessment centre within the 24month months prior to submitting your application, and have achieved a pass across all competencies, you can request to transfer this score to a South Wales Police recruitment campaign. We will need an electronic copy of your feedback report from the College of Policing in order to evidence this request. Please note that we are only able to consider requests to transfer a score during a live recruitment campaign, transfer requests will not be accepted outside of this window of opportunity.
If you require any information on transferring scores, or if you have sat an assessment centre but are not in possession of the proof of pass, please contact us for further advice in advance of your application.
You will only be able to sit a maximum of two national Police Officer assessment centres within a 12 month period, for unsuccessful candidates there is a mandatory three month period before you can re-sit the online assessment centre. The online assessment centre is currently hosted externally by the College of Policing as a virtual assessment centre. Any issues encountered during the assessment process should be directed to them as we do not have access to this platform.
If successful in your application to South Wales Police, applicants should be aware that they may be posted to any Local Policing unit across the South Wales force area.
Our Establishment team will consider a range of information when deciding on your posting, but the principle determining factor will be organisational requirement.
Applicants will be given at least four weeks’ notice of their appointment date and should be prepared to give their current employer the same. If you are required to give an extended period of notice, you should inform the recruitment team as soon as you have successfully completed your assessment centre.
To support your application you will need to provide a minimum of two references covering a three year period at the point of submission. These should include your most recent employer and any previous employers. In the case you have not had any previous employment you can use an academic reference or a character reference – though a character reference should not be a family member or a serving Police Officer.
As an organisation we actively encourage the use of Welsh internally, to increase opportunities to see, hear and use the language when conducting our business. While you can apply to join the force with no Welsh ability, it is expected that all Police Officer recruits will achieve level 2 Welsh by the end of their probation. Support will be provided for applicants to achieve this once in post, but applicants are welcome to begin learning Welsh before applying.
The Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 replaced the Welsh Language Act 1993 and as part of the new legislation, in Wales the Welsh language has equal legal status with English and must not be treated less favourably. Public bodies no longer need to develop and implement Welsh language schemes but instead now must comply with a set of national Welsh language standards.
Everyone who joins South Wales Police will need to complete a security vetting process. It is useful to begin collecting the following as they will be required as part of this process:
Collate your family/friends/associates details, i.e:
Collate details of any previous contact with the police, e.g: