Departments

Core Responsibilities

• Respond to emergency and priority incidents.
• Protect life, preserve scenes and secure evidence.
• Conduct proactive patrols and community reassurance.
• Make arrests, complete initial investigations and prepare reports.

Typical Duties

• Domestic incidents, public disturbances and welfare checks.
• Missing-person enquiries and crime-scene management.
• Stop and search, suspect detention and prisoner transport.
• Supporting specialist units during major incidents.

Skills and Standards

Officers need calm decision-making, strong communication, sound knowledge of police powers, accurate report writing and the ability to work effectively under pressure.

Development

ERPT provides broad operational experience and a route into supervisory roles or specialist departments such as CID, RPU and ARU.

Core Responsibilities

• Respond to firearms incidents and high-risk threats.
• Provide armed support to planned operations.
• Contain dangerous suspects and protect the public.
• Apply tactical command instructions and strict use-of-force rules.

Typical Duties

• Armed vehicle patrols and rapid-response deployments.
• High-risk arrests, building containment and vehicle interceptions.
• Protection duties and support at critical incidents.
• Regular weapons, tactics and scenario training.

Skills and Standards

ARU officers require exceptional discipline, judgement, teamwork, communication and threat assessment. All decisions must be necessary, proportionate and accountable.

Development

Selection normally requires strong operational performance, firearms assessments, tactical training and continual qualification to remain deployable.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead serious, complex and sensitive investigations.
• Interview victims, witnesses and suspects.
• Build investigation plans and manage lines of enquiry.
• Prepare evidential case files and work with prosecutors.

Typical Duties

• Reviewing statements, CCTV, digital evidence and intelligence.
• Planning searches, arrests and suspect interviews.
• Managing exhibits, disclosure and investigation records.
• Supporting victims and coordinating specialist resources.

Skills and Standards

Investigators need attention to detail, integrity, analytical thinking, interview skills, evidence management and clear written communication.

Development

Officers develop through investigation training, supervised casework and experience managing increasingly complex enquiries.

Core Responsibilities

• Deliver recruit induction and foundational police training.
• Teach law, policy, communication and operational procedure.
• Assess knowledge, practical skills and professional conduct.
• Maintain training records and development plans.

Training Programme

• Police powers, ethics and standards of behaviour.
• Radio use, incident response and report writing.
• Arrest, search, custody and evidence procedures.
• Scenario exercises, mentoring and final assessments.

Skills and Standards

Academy staff require subject knowledge, patience, consistency, coaching ability and fair assessment. Recruits must demonstrate professionalism and competence.

Development

Successful recruits progress into supervised frontline duties. Experienced officers may return as instructors, assessors or mentors.

Core Responsibilities

• Set priorities, policy and operational expectations.
• Oversee departments, staffing and service performance.
• Provide command for critical and major incidents.
• Manage risk, discipline and organisational accountability.

Typical Duties

• Operational briefings and leadership meetings.
• Reviewing performance, complaints and significant incidents.
• Authorising resources and specialist deployments.
• Communicating decisions and maintaining service standards.

Skills and Standards

Command members need leadership, impartial judgement, strategic thinking, risk management and clear accountability for their decisions.

Development

Command roles are reached through sustained performance, leadership experience, promotion processes and a strong record of professional conduct.

Core Responsibilities

• Enforce road traffic law and promote safer roads.
• Target dangerous, impaired and uninsured drivers.
• Respond to collisions, pursuits and vehicle crime.
• Provide specialist traffic advice and operational support.

Typical Duties

• Proactive traffic patrols and vehicle stops.
• Collision scene protection and initial investigation.
• Pursuit support, tactical vehicle stops and road closures.
• Vehicle examinations and traffic offence reporting.

Skills and Standards

RPU officers require advanced driving awareness, strong legal knowledge, accurate observation, evidence gathering and disciplined risk assessment.

Development

Officers progress through roads-policing law, advanced driving, pursuit and collision-investigation training according to role requirements.