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We welcome applications from all backgrounds and ethnicities. You will need to meet some basic eligibility requirements before you can apply.
To be eligible to apply, you must meet all the below criteria at the time of applying:
You must meet at least one of the criteria below relating to your education, experience or language skills.
Please be advised that competence in a second language will be tested throughout the recruitment process.
You can apply at the age of 17, although you won’t be appointed until you are 18.
There is no upper age limit but bear in mind that normal retirement age is 60 and new constables have to complete a two-year probation period.
You may apply without a full UK driving licence but you must be working towards it. A full manual driving licence is essential prior to an offer being made. You must not have 9 or more endorsable points on your licence at the point of applying or at any point throughout the recruitment process.
You must be a UK, EU citizen with EU settled status, a commonwealth citizen or a foreign national with no restrictions on your stay in the UK.
You must have lived in the UK for the past three years from the date of your application. The only exception is British Military Personnel who have served abroad.
Police officers encounter stressful situations, trauma, physical confrontation and work long hours on shifts. You will need to be in good mental and physical health to cope with the demands and pressures of police work.
You must meet the medical standard entry requirements and attend a medical assessment with our Force Physician.
You must ensure that you are physically fit for the role. Endurance will be tested during the selection process.
Details of national recruitment medical standards are published by the Government.
You will have your eyesight examined during the medical assessment stage.
Details of national recruitment medical standards, including eyesight, are published by the Government.
Certain convictions and cautions will lead to automatic rejection unless there are exceptional circumstances. (Each case will be dealt with on an individual basis once an application has been submitted.)
We will consider convictions, cautions, reprimands, warnings and fixed penalty notices on a case by case basis. Whether an application passes depends on the nature and circumstances of the offence.
Police Checks and Security Vetting are carried out on you and your immediate family. The security service will also carry out checks to verify your identity and background.
Further information about the vetting process and what is involved can be found on the Joining the police website.
We will take samples of your DNA and fingerprints and check against outstanding crimes. We do this after we make a provisional offer, but before a final offer to appoint.
You will have your financial status checked. You must not have any wilfully undischarged debts (e.g. County Court Judgements / Bankruptcy). This does not include mortgages, hire purchase, student loans or other loans that you are paying off normally.
Your application will be rejected if you have an active County Court Judgement or Voluntary Agreement. If you have been declared bankrupt you will not be eligible to apply until three years from the date of the Certificate of Satisfaction. If you have discharged bankruptcy debts you will need to provide a Certificate of Satisfaction.
Tattoos are not a bar to appointment. However, some tattoos could potentially offend members of the public or colleagues, or could bring discredit to the police service. It depends on their size, nature and location, and sometimes on the extent.
Members of the public are largely accepting of police officers and staff with visible tattoos. Visible tattoos are unacceptable if they could reasonably be interpreted as discriminatory or offensive and/or indicate attitudes or views inconsistent with Lincolnshire Police’s appearance standards.
Careful consideration will be given by the force to any tattoo on the neck, face or hands in deciding if it is acceptable. This includes considering the size, nature and prominence of the tattoo.
If you are a member of the BNP your application will be rejected. If you have previously been a member of the BNP, you may not be eligible for appointment. Your application will be assessed on an individual basis.
You can apply to any force at any time. If you have previously been unsuccessful at the national sift, you must wait at least three months from the date of notification before taking it again with any force.
Contact the Resource and Succession Planning Team:
Lincolnshire Police Headquarters
PO Box 999
Lincoln
LN5 7PH
Tel: 01522 558235
Email: [email protected]
Hello my name is Mariusz. I'm currently serving as a police constable responsible with Lincolnshire Police at Boston.
Before I started working for the police, I was not really doing anything similar to what I'm doing now - nothing to do with policing. I worked for a transport company mainly driving lorries and big trucks around.
What made me want to join the police? Just the job that they do itself. I just found it very interesting they way they work and it was always in the back of my head.
Working for Lincolnshire Police everything that I do everyday makes me proud, putting on the uniform and working alongside great people. It all makes me makes me proud and makes me enjoy it. Being an officer with a second language, I would definitely say it makes it a little bit easier when you're coming across communities because you can freely have a chat with them and speak to them.
Sometimes people fail to report stuff because they think they are going to struggle with the language, but once they know that someone speaks their language, it makes it easier for them.
I can actually help my colleagues as well when they have got issues or struggle, and we don't have to contact an interpreter so we can save money on that as well.
For someone who's thinking about joining the police, I would definitely say do it because from my perspective it's the best decision I've ever made and is really worth it - so if you're thinking about it, do it.