Police Community Support Officer - November 2026

Job description

Police Community Support Officer - November 2026

Employing Force

Devon & Cornwall

Role Type

PCSO

Contract Type

Permanent

Location

Exeter Police Station, Axminster, Barnstaple, Bodmin, Brixham, Crediton, Cullompton, Devonport Police Station, Fore Street, Exmouth (Devon), Falmouth, Helston, Ivybridge, Kingsbridge, Launceston, Liskeard, Newquay, Newton Abbot, Ottery St Mary, Penzance, Plymouth, Crownhill, Plympton, Sidmouth, St Ives, Tiverton, Torbay Business Park, Paignton, Truro

Grade / Scale

Grade 4

Staff Salary range

Starts at £27,204 rising by yearly increments to a maximum of £29,859 per annum

Number of positions

13

Hours per week

37

Full time / part time

Full Time

Published role profile/ job description

Job Advert Description

The primary role of a PCSO in Devon and Cornwall is to provide a regular and effective presence to their local community and to prioritise their demands and resources to ensure effective and efficient proportionate delivery of a neighbourhood policing service. They need to prevent, reduce and detect low-level problems within their community whilst also providing high levels of engagement with them. In addition, the role also requires them to:

• Manage the intelligence led identification of community concerns and prompt effective targeted action against those concerns, by the application of the force community engagement policy.
• Ensure joint action and problem solving with communities and other local partners - to improve the local environment and quality of life within communities.
• Ensure a consistent presence of dedicated Neighbourhood Policing Teams (NPTs) capable of working with the community to establish and maintain control - to be visible, accessible, skilled, knowledgeable and familiar to the community.
• Contribute to the policing of neighbourhoods, primarily through highly visible uniformed cycle or foot patrol, with the purpose of engaging and reassuring the public, increasing orderliness in public places and being accessible to communities and partner agencies, through joint working at local level. Thereby supporting the delivery of the strategic aims of ensuring that our communities are 'listened to, understood, informed, protected and safe'.

PCSOs form an integral part of NPTs across the force and will help deliver the objectives of the team within the framework of the PCSO Deployment Policy, and Neighbourhood Policing role requirement.

The Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) recruitment process is being run to support a number of planned intake dates with the Force. The current available start dates are:

• 12 October 2026
• 02 November 2026
• 07 December 2026
• 11 January 2027
• 08 February 2027
• 08 March 2027

As part of the recruitment process, candidates will be considered for the earliest suitable intake date based on their progress through each stage of the process and the successful completion of all pre-employment checks. We understand that individual circumstances and availability may vary, and we will work with candidates wherever possible to identify the most appropriate intake date from those available.

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