Special Constabulary
Dyfed-Powys Police service, through late 2010 and early 2011 has been re-structuring its Special Constabulary; The Special Constabulary is the part-time volunteer section. Its officers are known as Special Constables (all hold the office of Constable no matter what their rank) or informally as Specials. It has become known to many organisations as well as the police that volunteers are best managed by volunteers, so this new command and rank structure has been designed with that in mind, to boost the effectiveness of the Special Constabulary.
With this re-structuring, there have been many new appointments, these include the following:
- Special Constabulary Lead - Superintendent
- Special Constabulary Co-Ordinator
and then we go on to the Specials themselves:
- Special Constabulary, Chief Officer
- Special Constabulary, Inspectors; x4 Inspectors, one per Basic Command Unit (BCU)
- Special Constabulary, Sergeants; formerly Section Officers
With this restructuring, Dyfed-Powys Police is the first Police service in Wales to adopt the National Policing Improvement Agencies(NPIA)National Recruitment Standards for Special Constables. Also the training for Special Constables has improved and now is similar to that of a regular Police Constable in its structure and time frame.
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