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Before submitting your application form, you need to check that you are eligible to apply. Please note that there are other factors which may prevent you from joining the City of London Police Reserve. All appointments are at the Commissioner’s discretion. Please look at the following questions. If your answer to any of the questions in this section is ‘Yes’, then ordinarily you will be unable to join as a Volunteer Police Officer or Policing Volunteer.
You do not need any formal qualifications to apply to join the City of London Police Reserve but you must be able to speak, read and write English competently. Volunteer Police Officers and some Policing Volunteer roles will need to pass the Police Initial Recruitment Test.
Before submitting your application form, you need to check that you are eligible to apply. Please note that there are other factors which may prevent you from joining the City of London Special Constabulary. All appointments are at the Commissioner’s discretion. Further information is available in the candidate information pack.
In order to become a Volunteer Police Officer and some Policing Volunteer roles with designated police powers, you must be in good health, of sound constitution and able both physically and mentally to perform your duties once appointed. Candidates to whom we intend to make a conditional offer will be asked prior to appointment to fill in a medical questionnaire and undertake a medical examination which will also include an eyesight test. Failure to meet the medical and eyesight standards will mean an individual cannot be appointed. If you are currently using illegal drugs you will not be able to apply and you will be tested for such use.
The standard you need to meet either with or without spectacles or contact lenses is:
6/12 or better with either your right or left eye
6/6 with both eyes together
If you wear spectacles or contact lenses you also need to reach
6/36 without your spectacles or lenses.
6/9 with both eyes together (aided).
The use of colour-correcting lenses is not acceptable. Severe colour vision deficiencies (monochromacy) are not acceptable. Mild anomalous trichromacy is acceptable. Severe anomalous dichromacy or trichromacy is also acceptable but you will need to be aware of the deficiency and make appropriate adjustments.
Further details on medical standards are available here.
Further details on eyesight requirements are available here.
Please email [email protected] to request an application form. You can use the same form for applying for a Volunteer Police Officer or Policing Volunteer role. You will also be sent an information pack.