Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) - March 2026 Intake

Job description

Salary: £27,204 rising to £29,859 per annum + Excellent Benefits including Government Pension

Location: Exeter Police Station, Axminster, Barnstaple, Bideford, Bodmin, Camborne, Crediton, Dartmouth, Exmouth Road, Devonport, Plymouth, Falmouth, Helston, Honiton, Ilfracombe, Ivybridge, Launceston, Newquay, Newton Abbot, Okehampton, Ottery St Mary, Penzance, Plymouth, Charles Cross, Plymouth, Crownhill, Saltash, Seaton, South Molton, St Austell, Tavistock, Tiverton, Torpoint, Torquay, Totnes, Truro

Closing Date: 04/01/2026, 23:55pm

Hours per week: This role is 37 hours per week. However, we welcome applications from individuals wishing to work on a part-time basis and we are willing to consider flexible working patterns subject to business need.

About the role:

The primary role of a PCSO in Devon and Cornwall is to provide a regular and effective presence to their local community and to prioritise their demands and resources to ensure effective and efficient proportionate delivery of a neighbourhood policing service. They need to prevent, reduce and detect low-level problems within their community whilst also providing high levels of engagement with them. In addition, the role also requires them to:

• Manage the intelligence led identification of community concerns and prompt effective targeted action against those concerns, by the application of the force community engagement policy.
• Ensure joint action and problem solving with communities and other local partners – to improve the local environment and quality of life within communities.
• Ensure a consistent presence of dedicated Neighbourhood Policing Teams (NPTs) capable of working with the community to establish and maintain control – to be visible, accessible, skilled, knowledgeable and familiar to the community.
• Contribute to the policing of neighbourhoods, primarily through highly visible uniformed cycle or foot patrol, with the purpose of engaging and reassuring the public, increasing orderliness in public places and being accessible to communities and partner agencies, through joint working at local level. Thereby supporting the delivery of the strategic aims of ensuring that our communities are ‘listened to, understood, informed, protected and safe’.

PCSOs form an integral part of NPTs across the force and will help deliver the objectives of the team within the framework of the PCSO Deployment Policy, and Neighbourhood Policing role requirement.

Want to know more about this role?

Please click on the 'Apply' button to be taken to the vacancy on our website for further information about the role including the role profile. For a conversation regarding the role, once you have viewed the full details on our website, please contact:

Hiring Line Manager: Sophie Godbold - Resourcing Officer

Email Address: DCP-uniformedrecruitment@devonandcornwall.pnn.police.uk

Telephone Number: 01202 223825

PLEASE NOTE: Should you decide to apply for this role, when you are asked to state how you found out about this vacancy, please remember to select LinkedIn.

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Exeter

Type of Contract

Casual / Part Time Jobs

Published at

17-12-2025

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English