InView Police and PCSO Recruitment

Only one in seven applicants successfully negotiates the police assessment centre and interview - our training course will significantly increase your chances of success!

InView provide specialist one day courses.

InView have 30 years police experience covering training, recruitment and police assessment procedures. How InView can help:

• How can we help you into the Police
• Advantages of a InView Course
• Role-Playing
• Letter Writing
• Report Writing
• Structured Interview

InView are dedicated to getting YOU a career in the Police Service. You will need to know what type of assessment process a prospective police officer will go through. You will be provided with:

• A description of the type of skills and abilities that the service is looking for
• Some specific advice on completing application forms (including the difficult questions such as dealing with conflict and racism)
• Some general advice on the verbal and numerical exercises contained within the recruitment process

This overview explains the benefits to you of attending one of our courses. InView will help you prepare, plan and most importantly give you confidence to pass your assessment centre and interview. Nationally, only one person in seven succeeds in their application. To find out how we can help you to be that one person, have a look at the following information.

We believe that the most effective training is done with people who know the assessment process. You will undergo your police assessment centre training with experienced trainers who know the assessment process.

Why Use InView?

How can we help you into the Police?

All forces are adopting the National Recruitment Model for assessing potential recruits. This consists of role-playing exercises, report and letter writing exercises, a structured interview, and verbal and numerical reasoning exercising. InView courses explain each of these in detail in order that the candidate is able to perform with confidence on their assessment day.

Attending a InView course will give you the advantage of:

• Experienced trainers with up to date knowledge
• Being the candidate in TWO mock role-plays together with preparation
• A proven model showing how to deal with scenarios and how to prepare them
• Examples and tuition on the letter writing and report writing exercises
• In depth discussions of typical interview topics and themes
• An explanation of how to demonstrate your commitment to positive action against racism, homophobia and sexism

Advantages of a InView Course

Our courses are one full day, and are held on regular dates in regions across the country. They are designed specifically to cover the recruitment centre in depth.

InView one-day course consists of the following elements:

Role-Playing
This is an important part of the police process. It is designed to test your ability to take responsibility, ask relevant questions and make decisions in a fair and impartial manner. We spend a full half day firstly showing you how to utilise your five-minute preparation time effectively.

By the end of the session, you will understand how to plan your meeting with the role actor in a concise manner. Consequently, you will have a prepared plan, split into the sections you need to address with the role actor, highlighting what issues and questions you need to raise, and outlining what actions you may need to take.

The second part of the session covers the principles of dealing with the actual role-play itself. You will learn to avoid coming across as weak, indecisive or lacking in basic policing skills.

The most valuable part of the day will be the chance you will have to actually practice the role-plays, along with the required preparation.

Letter Writing
You will learn the basic principles involved in taking responsibility and portraying a fair overview of a given situation, you will also learn how to offer a solution, and how to take responsibility for solving a potentially difficult situation.

Report Writing
In this part of the course, you will understand how to combine a number of sources of information into a logical, balanced summary for a reader with no knowledge of the subject you are writing about. By the end of it, you will have a model to use for any report you may be asked to write.

Structured Interview
On your assessment day, you will be given four questions and allowed five minutes to speak on them. We will provide you with a logical way to give an evidenced answer. In this way, you will avoid becoming tongue tied or running out of things to say.

We also look at common questions and themes, and explore in depth the concepts of professional and ethnical standards, thereby giving you the confidence to perform well in your interview.

We have just taken you through the complete Police Assessment process for recruits. This course WILL give you the confidence to deal with this process.