PolicingTV in honour of the many thousands of men and women serving as Volunteer Police Officers around the world have created a Volunteers Week beginning Aug 26th.

Over the last 3 months we have recorded interviews and attended conferences and symposiums around the world pulling together some great insight and amazing contributions from volunteers from across the world

We hear about how volunteers are helping with cold cases, serving along side police officers and even can get paid!

Hosted by the world’s leading expert in Police Volunteering, Dr Iain Britton, we see how Police volunteers play a crucial role in policing organizations worldwide, engaging in a wide range of activities.

These activities include serving as police reserves, auxiliaries, and special constables, working alongside paid police officers. Additionally, volunteers contribute to crime prevention, community safety, victim support, and working with offenders.

There is also a growing trend of volunteers bringing their specialist skills, such as in cyber and digital crime or economic crime, to supplement the paid workforce.

The international community is starting to recognize the value of sharing knowledge and learning from different volunteer models across countries.

We will be seeing the International Volunteering Symposium, hear from the Women In Volunteering Conference as well as interviews with leading advocates and volunteers from around the world.

Takeaways

• Police volunteers are engaged in a wide range of activities in policing organizations worldwide.
• Volunteers serve as police reserves, auxiliaries, and special constables, working alongside paid police officers. They contribute to crime prevention, community safety, victim support, and working with offenders.
• There is a growing trend of volunteers bringing their specialist skills to supplement the paid workforce.
• The international community is recognizing the value of sharing knowledge and learning from different volunteer models across countries.

Sound Bites

• “Volunteers serve essentially as an equivalence of police officers as police reserve, auxiliaries, Special Constables, assistant police, where they serve in uniform as volunteers on the streets as visible policing.”
• “There are lots of roles emerging now with people bringing their specialist skills, whether that’s in the cyber and digital world, whether it’s in economic crime and accountancy, but a wide range of different specialist roles.”
• “This whole volunteering activity is literally hundreds of thousands of people worldwide in many, many countries.”

Chapters

00:00. The Range of Activities of Police Volunteers Worldwide

02:40. The Role of Specialist Skills in Police Volunteer Work

04:36. International Collaboration in Police Volunteer Programs

08:18. Enhancing Diversity and Representation through Volunteer Policing

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