A NATIONAL effort to recruit 20,000 additional police officers by 2023 is being supported by the University of Cumbria and a special public sector partnership. University of Cumbria and three other institutions with top tier police education expertise formed the Police Education Consortium to deliver policing apprenticeships and DHEPs to new recruits joining three forces across south east England – Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire. From day one and based in their force area, recruits receive on-the-job training from their constabulary and become full students of their partner university. This is done in waves across the forces and Police Education Consortium universities. National entry requirements for the role of police officer changed in January 2020. All new officers now need a degree-level qualification.
DORSET Police have responded to claims its force under-represents diverse communities amid the recruitment of new officers. Figures from the Home Office reveal Dorset Police recruited 45 new officers in the nine months to the end of 2020, but of the 44 new recruits who declared their ethnicity, just two were Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Groups. It leaves Dorset Police with 22 BAME officers overall, accounting for 1.8 percent of the 1,224 officers whose ethnicity was recorded. A Dorset Police spokesman said: The national Police Uplift Programme has provided the force with an opportunity to recruit 50 additional officers to its normal recruitment schedule by the end of March 2021 and further additional officers by March 2022 - this is a once in a generation opportunity to enable greater representation.
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