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Extra staff helping with recruitment drive

16 September 2020

The Force is currently managing almost 1,000 applications a month for student officer roles as the Government’s plans to recruit 20,000 more officers across England and Wales gather momentum.

The recruitment drive has led to extra staff being taken on speed up processes and get successful applicants started on their training programmes.

Nicola Price, the Force’s director of people and organisation development, admits it has been a case of stepping things up to enable the Force to cope with the increased number of applications.

“In July, we welcomed 234 new student officers to West Midlands Police, which is the most we have ever recruited in one month and actually more than we recruited in the whole year in 2017. We are attracting a significant amount of people, and have really reduced the amount of time it takes from someone applying to receiving an offer,” she explains.

“The current volume is significantly different to the volume of hires over the last few years. The nature of applications is also very different than it has been in previous years. Prior to Covid, it was a very candidate driven market, we were seeing candidates applying for multiple roles in various organisations, so the way we communicate with them has had to change and we have had to move much quicker to engage them and keep them interested in a policing career.

“We have seen a huge increase in the numbers of applications for our roles in June and July this year, which is really good for us as people are interested in joining. We are managing almost 1,000 applications per month just for student officers at the moment.”

• Nicola Price was interviewed for our Federation magazine and more details will be published in the October/November edition which will be available from the start of October.

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