Police Officer Recruitment Campaign 2017.



We are opening our recruitment lines for regular Police Officers in early January 2017 - in order to prepare potential candidates for this, the Positive Action Recruitment Team (PART) are holding a series of workshops offering Positive Action Support to candidates through-out the process.

The first workshops which are being held in December, will provide attendees with information about the role of a Police officer and give guidance on preparing and completing their application forms.

The Equality Act states that positive action can be used to address under-representation. Merseyside Police have chosen to utilise positive action provisions to assist our workforce to become more diverse and representative of the society in which we police. As a result of this our Positive Action Recruitment Team is running a series of workshops intended to provide an overview of the Police Officer Recruitment Process.

These workshops are aimed to attract, and offer support to, candidates from all underrepresented groups within Merseyside Police, in particular:-

Ethnic Minority Groups - Asian, Black, Chinese, Polish etc.
Minority Religious groups – Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Buddhism etc.
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual (Sexual Orientation)
Transgender. Intersex ( Gender Identity)
If you are eligible for Positive Action Support, we would like to invite you to attend one of our workshops, please register your interest by emailing

Positive.Action.Team@merseyside.pnn.police.uk

In the meantime if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact the team on Ext 8972 or 8553.

We very much look forward to working with you in the coming months.

Surely the best candidates should be chosen rather than Ethnic Homosexuals and Lesbians.

Surely the best candidates should be chosen rather than Ethnic Homosexuals and Lesbians. If candidates don't know what the role of a Police Officer is they have no right applying.

It is disgraceful to discriminate. Candidates should be chosen on merit.

'Polish' is a nationality, not an ethnicity. Just shows how out of touch the police are.

Should employ people based on their ability to do the job instead of coaching people for an interview and when they 'get the job' they will probably never make the grade.

Merseyside Police are always trying to get people to join from communities that traditionally don't want to be involved in Policing.

It also smacks of conceit. 'These people are too thick to apply on their own merit so we need to help them'.

Originally Posted by duncet

It is disgraceful to discriminate. Candidates should be chosen on merit.

Fire Service are as bad. I applied years ago, partnered up with a Black lad during assessment I passed every test including the ladder leg lock which he couldn't do, he also didn't finish the maths paper. He passed and got accepted, I didn't.

When we were given our results, the failures at one end of the room were all white and bar one girl all male. The successes at the other end of the room looked like the league of nations. When one guy complained we were all ushered out the door!