Number of Special Constables By Patrol Status

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Dear Warwickshire Police,

Please can you provide me with a breakdown of Special Constable numbers, broken down by their individual patrol status.

For example, the count of current members of your Special Constabulary who are Accompanied Patrol Status (APS), Directed Patrol Status (DPS), Qualified Special Constable (QSC), or Qualified Special Constable - Full (QSC-F).

If you have not adopted the Policing Education Qualifications Framework (PEQF) for your Special Constabulary, please provide the breakdown of officers who have achieved Independent Patrol Status (IPS) and those who have not.

Yours faithfully,

Daniel O'Finn

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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 459-2023 (Number of Special Constables By Patrol Status)

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@ Freedom of Information,

Dear Daniel O’Finn  

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 459-2023

 

I write in connection with your request for information which was received
on 2^nd May 2023 as follows:

 

Please can you provide me with a breakdown of Special Constable numbers,
broken down by their individual patrol status.

 

For example, the count of current members of your Special Constabulary who
are Accompanied Patrol Status (APS), Directed Patrol Status (DPS),
Qualified Special Constable (QSC), or Qualified Special Constable - Full
(QSC-F).

 

If you have not adopted the Policing Education Qualifications Framework
(PEQF) for your Special Constabulary, please provide the breakdown of
officers who have achieved Independent Patrol Status (IPS) and those who
have not.

 

Please find the Warwickshire Police response set out below.

 

Response:  We are currently operating two systems for patrol status, those
who trained before September 2020 and those who have trained afterwards.

 

Warwickshire Police have 46 Special Constables from the old training
programme who have Independent Patrol Status.  Whilst we do not currently
have a final procedure for mapping these Specials across to the new
system, we have offered QSC as CPD to legacy Independent Patrol Status
Special Constables.  Some are working towards QSC.

 

Those Special Constables who were still Non-Independent Patrol Status in
September 2020 were moved across to the new DPS/QSC programme, so we no
longer have any Non-Independent Patrol Status Specials.

 

From those who have trained since September 2020 we have the following
breakdown:

 

APS - 6

DPS – 16

QSC – 6

QSC – Full – 0

 

Total number of Specials – 74

 

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Freedom of Information Officer

Freedom of Information Unit
Warwickshire Police

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Warwickshire

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