Vacancy Information
Would you like to be part of your local policing team and help build positive relationships with your communities by providing reassurance and reducing the fear of crime?
Our Safer Neighbourhood Teams (SNT) are looking for volunteers to join them to help keep local communities informed of policing activity through positive and regular engagement. If you are able to spare four hours a week (or more!) to support our policing teams, we would love to hear from you!
Vacancies are currently available in the boroughs of Elmbridge, Runnymede, Epsom & Ewell, Tandridge and Mole Valley.
The Role
As a Safer Neighbourhood Volunteer you will have the opportunity to:
• Join a proactive policing team and work alongside police officers and staff
• Gain an understanding of neighbourhood policing
• Build relationships within Surrey Police across policing teams
• Interact with the public and other emergency services, community groups, public sector and charitable organisations
• Learn new transferable skills and gain valuable volunteering experience
Key Responsibilities
Your main responsibility as a Safer Neighbourhood Volunteer will be to engage with local communities to help build positive relationships and breakdown perceptions around policing.
Your volunteering activity will include:
• Supporting Safer Neighbourhood Team activity to target specific issues within communities
• Using online systems and social media channels to promote the work of the SNT
• Coordinating local events such as drop-in centres, beat surgeries and partnership days
• Assisting designing out crime officers with the communication of crime prevention advice
• Participating in specific community initiatives such as school engagement programmes
• Connecting with local watch schemes, providing information and support when required
• Assisting with the extraction and review of local crime information and presenting this in community updates
Skills & Experience
As a Safer Neighbourhood Volunteer, engagement will be a large part of your role so you will need to have great communication skills and be able to use different channels including social media.
Working as part of a team, you will need to be well-organised and be able to plan and coordinate key tasks/events within local communities.
Your volunteering role will involve the use of Microsoft Office programmes and our
incident recording system, so you will need to be competent and confident in the use of IT systems.
Contact Details
For further information please see the attached role profile at the bottom of this advert.
If you have any specific questions, please contact our Volunteering Team via email volunteer@surrey.pnn.police.uk.
Additional Information
Following submission of your application you will receive a confirmation email with a copy of your application attached. Occasionally emails from this address can fall into spam/junk folders so please ensure this is checked regularly. You may wish to consider adding noreply@surreysussexpolice.as.recruitmail.com to your address/contact list to ensure you receive all communications.
Diversity Statement
We are only as good as our people. It's really important that our officers and staff can be themselves in the workplace and we know that as an organisation we'll grow from the variety of thinking, approach and skills that diversity brings; all of which help us to deliver a better policing service. We strive to ensure how we deliver our services, provide information and how we recruit is open and accessible to all.
We have multiple staff support groups who help to improve our understanding of minority issues and ensure they are reflected in our work. We are proud members of the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index and Disability Confident, a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and aligned with the Armed Forces Covenant and the HeForShe movement.
We value the differences that people bring from all backgrounds and communities. Regardless of age, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, disability, social status or religious belief, we would love to hear from you.
Please use the following links to find out more on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Surrey Police and Sussex Police
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