Excellent. Thank you for sharing, Sir.

i am just about this month to do the assessment center i am nurvis and hope it goes well any advice

Does this include pcso as I've been told you don't do the assessment centre

Hi I have PNC assessment for police staff not police office is it the same thing?

I passed my day one assessment centre. But am stressing about day two assessment centre. Can you make a video on the day two assessment centre?

When coming up with examples where you have demonstrated the 4 competencies, can you make it up on the spot? I am struggling to find good examples that I would feel would score highly for integrity etc.

as a PCSO does anyone know what kinds of competency questions they will ask please?

Just found I failed the online assesment today. Told I could reapply in 3 months but don't see the point. I'm 33 in 4 moths. So by the time I can reapply again, if there's even vacancies, I'll be 33 before I even get to this stage of the application again. 70% of people pass this test and I failed. That's how shit I am at life

Entry requirements are that you must be a paedophile or other type of sexual deviant and be able to look someone in the eye and lie without flinching. Then you're in!!

This is why we have the best police force in the world, truely amazing people, keep up the good work

The written report is actually 2 hours not 40 minutes

This has been incredibly helpful! I have my assessment on the 10th January. Thankyou very much :)

The first Policemen I came across was on video back in the 90s when I was Little Hallingbury Primary School kid. Mr Plod from Noddy. Constable Knapweed from the Herbs. PC Gregory from Ivor the Engine. Policemen from Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. Magistrate's Court Police Sargent in the doc with Mr Toad from The Wind in the Willows 1995 and 1996. The Great Muppet Caper, London Policeman arrests Miss Piggy for a stole Neacklese. Brum and the Airport Adventure. Brum and the King of Thieves on dvd.

Living Peacefully.

Living Safely.

Police of the 21st Century.

Law & Order.

I had 15 questions for stage one lol

This helped me wrap my head around the whole thing massively. Thank you very much!

Hi, would you be able to tell us whether the stage three (written and briefing) exercises need to be done online on the very same day? I understand they are done as separate tasks but i wonder whether it is possible to do them on two separate days.

Would all this still apply for special constable?

I’m doing a Police Constable degree apprenticeship, and I can’t find any videos about that, so I’ve been doing my research on the ordinary application but it’s quite diffident, my stage one was behavioural question where you have to agree or disagree with statements and there was 4 statements to a page and 18 pages, my next stage is the assessment center and I’m really not sure what to expect, have you any advice? Thanks.

Ordinarily you will get an email from the force notifying you roughly sven days in advance of the seven day window for you to complete the exercises. So you may get for example, and email on the 1st, telling you the window for you to complete your exercises will open on the 8th, and that you have until the 15th to complete them. if its any help Justin, we have a course this weekend for £95 on sunday, and with us as always, if you are not happy by half way through with the quality of what you are getting, tell us, we will give you whatever you have paid back, and you owe us nothing. We shake hands as part as friends. You don't have to wait until you have failed before you can get a refund if you are not happy:).

'A woman complaining kids are playing football and disturbing her coronation street'....this is a symptom not of those kids being bored, they are happy playing football, the problem is with the woman that hates children, maybe she should be investigated! Does no one else think that is a problem? What a society we live in. Just because she's an adult doesn't make her right. Children should be allowed to play! He's not said they were actually doing anything wrong. What a terrible example.

They have only given me five days.

Very useful

Bully victims the lot of you. The police have no place or respect from the public because of your bullying tactics and ting ways. I categorically HATE the police. Personal experience. Got arrested for reporting fucking crime then got released with NFA. With no apology. Honestly i have no respect for the police because you all believe that you yourselves are above the law!!!!

If i joined the police i would be sarge in a year just arrest all my mates and sieze al their drugs know exactly where to look. lol

Brilliant video! Got my assessment centre on the 18th bit nervous spent the past 2 years as a special Constable whilst at uni so have had the pressures over competency based interviews Could I use experiences from that within my answers ?

Hi I’ve got mine to do in the next few days, I was just wondering if once you click the link they send you to do this do you have a time period to do the entire thing like e.g. 3 hours to complete it all? And will it all have to be done on that single day? Thank you gigi

Hi MB, thanks for the comment, good luck in the police process!

Informative insight into the CVF, brings it to life in the linkage to the model behaviours. Thanks for sharing!

Good presentation, BUT please change the shadow behind the text. It’s not Dyslexic legible.

great advice thanks... just a pointer, the font with the shadow is a bit hard to read

Hi Jamie, you have the option during the recording of finishing early once you have said what you wanted to say. Of course, you will have used up most of that time, to ensure that you maximise your marks:) You don't want to be finishing after sixty seconds, as that would require what you have said to be pretty exceptional!.

during stage 2 do we have to use the full 5 minutes or can we stop the recording after we believe we have provided and adequate answer ?

Police, suck your mun

Hi! I’ve recently passed the Online NAC for a DHEP detective role and have been told I have a force interview via Skype, Can you give me any idea of what to expect from this interview as I know not all forces do it and I have already been assessed on the competencies during the recruitment process? I am a little confused as to what they are actually interviewing me on, Thanks.

Hi Simba, I wonder here if you applied for a degree apprenticeship entry, for which you may need the points depending on force. You would need to have a look at the eligibility criteria again and see what they were for the scheme you applied for. You don't need UCAS points or A levels for many forces, although for some you do. It depends on the view of the Chief Constable.

Hi Aran, the point here was that in my introduction I (subtly I admit) dropped in the fact that force policy was to PREVENT crime. The question in this case was to see if candidates recognised this point. If they do, they will realise that the aim of the action is to prevent the crime, NOT make an arrest afterwards (although in the real world that may of course happen)

I did the online app . I never went to uni so I answered I don’t have the ucas points . Once completed - I got a generated message that I haven’t met the criteria .. ??? Can anyone help , thought u dident need ucas/ uni points .

In the situational judgement test you said arresting him was the wrong answer.... so are you saying both options of arresting him were incorrect even asking the staff at the shop to call the police and they arrest him would be incorrect? I mean common sense woild say its just a sandwich so you should be able to introduce yourself and explain why he should pay for that but because you didn't give the correct answer I just wanted to ensure im thinking along the right track? Or whether indeed he should be arrested but just not by you..

I was going to delete some of these comments, but on reflection they show what types of people the police service has to deal with. For example, when talking about sub normal people, may be worth while checking your spelling and grammar first. This of course would amount to a failing on the police IQ test.....

This helped and explained the process really well thankyou

Hi I am due to do the last two exercises of the online assessment centre tomorrow. Are we allowed to make notes? For example, when I did my last search assessment centre last year, we could make notes. Whilst I know this wasn't online, I just want to know if we can as I find it useful to write all the competencies down so I can make sure I'm using them in my answers for the written exercise and the briefing?

Hi John, hope you're well. I'd like to apply to the Met London Police in July and have some confusion over the start of a possible job offer. As I have graduated last year, I was going to apply for the two-year degree holder program. From their website, I can see that candidates are able to send their applications, but do you know whether there is a specific starting/closing date for this type of program? I'm asking because I've also looked into the Police.Now route and applications are closed. Thanks a lot for your help. Claudia

I actually found this quite depressing, it's like reading 'Wasting More Police Time', too much focus on PC nonsense and not enough proper policing. As for the example of kids kicking a ball about annoying a householder, does anyone seriously believe that a copper has the time to do all that?! Fantasy. And look at all the job adverts on force (sorry, service) websites, the best paid jobs are always the unnecessary and nonsense jobs; at the moment Suffolk police are looking for a 'Positive Action Recruitment Supervisor', nearly £30,000 to "improve inclusion and diversity through strategic research & planning". Makes you weep really.

Just had an email saying " actually failed on the situational judgement test. We were given 4 answers and had to rate each response as rather "Counter productive" "Inefficient" "Efficient" and "Very Efficient". The answers seemed obvious, but I got a very low score. It was quite challenging, I even had the Competencies framework next to me!" (Apologies cannot seem to reply ). I can only agree how difficult it is. I had a friend who is a 22 year service Inspector who did the Avon and Somerset one a few years ago out of interest, and he only just passed it as well! It is to do with being able to look at the wider picture, and being able to tun off from natural instincts which sometimes are what makes a good police officer. bear in mind there are two types of way situational judgement tests can work. one is as this one was, where you "grade" responses to a situation as being effective, non effective etc. A more simplistic version just asks you to rate the four options as to which one is best. There is a lot of debate on our courses about potential courses of action! Regards John

Hi Matt, if anyone has any topics that they would like to cover, please suggest them and we will do something if there is enough demand. Keep an eye on our facebook page which is where we put videos first.

This is a brilliant mini-series. Thank you.