Stage 1: - Application - We receive your Application Form and short listing questionnaire.

Stage 2: - Shortlisting & Assessment Centre - We will score your short listing questionnaire. Should you reach the pass mark, we will invite you to one of our PCSO Assessment Centres. Here you will encounter a competency-based interview, a role-play exercise and a written exercise so that we can determine if you have the necessary skills to become a PCSO. With the Assessment Centre successfully completed, your application will be placed 'On Hold' until spaces become available on an Intake.

Stage 3: - Pre-employment checks - When an Intake post becomes available we will then invite you to our Force Headquarters in Huntingdon for a medical with our Nurse. We will also start taking up your employment references (going back 5 years) and your security and financial checks including being Counter Terrorist Security cleared (CTC).

Stage 4: - Offering you the position - When we have received all your pre-employment checks (as listed above) and they are deemed to be satisfactory, we will write to you offering you a position as a Police Community Support Officer. (This is subject to there being suitable vacancies at the time. If not, your application will be put on hold until vacancies arise).

Please note:

• The application process can take 18 months.
• (For both Internal and External candidates) - Throughout the whole of the recruitment process, the Recruitment Team will periodically gain your sickness records and references and, if deemed unsatisfactory, your application can be withdrawn from the Recruitment Process at any stage.