Devon and Cornwall Police
Police Community Support Officer - August 2026
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Salary: £27,204 rising to £29,859 per annum + Excellent Benefits including Government Pension Location: Exeter Police Station, Barnstaple, Bodmin, Brixham, Devonport Police Station, Fore Street, Exmouth (Devon), Falmouth, Helston, Ivybridge, Kingsbridge, Launceston, Liskeard, Newquay, Newton Abbot, Penzance, Plymouth, Crownhill, Plympton, St Ives, Torbay Business Park, Paignton, Truro Closing Date: 05/08/2026, Midday 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:
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- 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.
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