If you pass the initial application stage of recruitment, you will be invited to participate in stage two: the assessment centre.
During the assessment, you will undertake an interview, a numerical test and a logical reasoning test.
The Interview
This will be 30 minutes in total. You will be asked four questions based on how you have dealt with specific situations in the past, and you must answer each during a timed five minute period.
The timing will be monitored by the interviewer, who will stop you if you run over the five minutes allocated.
The questions will relate to the key competencies needed to be a successful police community support officer; for example, good communication skills.
The Numerical and Logic tests
In the numerical reasoning test, you will be asked to answer 25 multiple choice questions which will measure your ability to solve numerical problems accurately. You will have 12 minutes to complete the test.
In the verbal logical reasoning test, you must answer 31 multiple choice questions in 25 minutes, which will measure your ability to reason logically when given facts about events.