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Police Support Volunteers

Steered by the Neighbourhood Policing Programme, we aim to promote the use of volunteers across the UK's police services by sharing best practice.

These webpages provide a framework for volunteering in the police service and an overview of the issues that need to be considered when developing a volunteer programme. They bring together good practice and incorporate learning from forces that have established programmes of police support volunteer activity. 

We aim to:

  • Ensure that police volunteers are managed effectively, and are used to add value to, rather than replace, the work carried out by paid staff and officers.
  • Increase the numbers of people volunteering with the police, and the range of activities that they do.
  • Encourage, through volunteering, greater engagement with all of the diverse communities that the police serve.
  • Improve the service that the police provides to the public through effective use of volunteers, reducing the fear of crime through greater community involvement.
  • Ensure that police volunteers are valued and recognised as an important part of the extended police family.

We want to promote and share your best practice ideas and would welcome the submission of documents relating to volunteer programmes. Please send your documents to the PSV mailbox.

Latest News

graphic image of yellow figure holding arm up in volunterring gestureVolunteering Conference

The Police Support Volunteers Conference was held on Friday 11-12 September 2009 at NPIA Ryton. David Hanson MP, Minister of State for Policing, Crime and Counter Terrorism provided a pre-recorded video message as the opening speech.

The conference was well attended with representatives from a wide range of forces across England and Wales, read more about the conference.