south wales police assessment centre

Written exericse

Introduction

circumstances

options

actions

Interview

Openness to change

Service delivery

Decision making

Situational Judgement Test

key priorities

REDUCE AND PREVENT CRIME AND ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR TO KEEP PEOPLE SAFE IN THEIR HOMES AND COMMUNITIES

IMPROVE THE WAY IN WHICH WE CONNECT WITH, INVOLVE AND
INFORM OUR COMMUNITIES

WORK TO PROTECT THE MOST VULNERABLE IN OUR COMMUNITIES

SPEND YOUR MONEY WISELY TO PROTECT POLICING IN YOUR COMMUNITY

MAKE SURE THAT THE LOCAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM WORKS EFFECTIVELY AND EFFICIENTLY, MEETING THE NEEDS OF VICTIMS AND CHALLENGING OFFENDERS

MAKE OUR CONTRIBUTION TO THE STRATEGIC POLICING REQUIREMENT AND SUCCESSFULLY POLICE MAJOR EVENTS

Peter Vaughan
Chief Constable

Vision

THE SOUTH WALES
POLICE VISION IS CLEAR
– TO BE THE BEST AT
UNDERSTANDING AND
RESPONDING TO OUR
COMMUNITIES’ NEEDS.

Alun Michaels
PCC

Changing cricumstances
regarding Nigel and
pers struggling to cope

Situation
Family problems hindering there productivity

Task
Consider how to get the dept involved
Had to avoid demotivating them
Had to adapt to a different way of working
manage my responsibilities and my own workload
Consider how the dept would view extra workload

Community policing

The power of the
police comes from
the common consent
of the public

Positives

Public

Police

  1. Increases confidence
  2. Addresses problems
  3. Influence decisions made
  1. Improved Partnership working
  2. Positive perception of Police
  3. Good practice
  4. Manages expectations

How to do it?

Community networks

Charities and support groups

Social investigative agencies

Partnership agencies

Samaritans

Neighbourhood watch

Bernardos

Pubwatch schemes

Barriers to community policing

Problem solving models

EPAT

Problem solving cycle

PAT

only 1 officer to every 1000 people in south wales

Funding

Lack of cohesion between police and communities

Action
Shared worklaod
Task other members of the dept
Stressed the benefits of the approach
. I ensured that I kept myself calm and arranged weekly meetings to check the progress and offer support to the department.

Result
Made the deadline
Remained calm
Monthly book looks to track progress
Improved on what the previous HOD did and dept welcomed the change

Task
The student was behind due to missing large chunks of the year and also they had found elements of the subject too difficult.
I had to consider their confidence.
I had to consider how their Parents would view the decision

Action
arranged a meeting to discuss her underperformance
made her aware that it was only half GCSE
stressed the benefits of this.
explained that she'd get higher grade
less stress
could perform in other subject better
eased her fears of her parents being upset by personally getting in touch

Situation
I had to tell a student that they were underperforming in a subject and i felt that they should sit a short course qualification rather than higher . They disagreed and felt they could improve in time

Result
Student achieved a n A at short course
Parents thanked me for my swift response
She was happier in lessons (student voice questionnaire )
I learnt important to trust my judgement
I learnt if you act in the best interests of someone and give sound reasoning 99% of the time the result is positive