Positive Action

Our aim

North Yorkshire Police aim to recruit talented individuals with as diverse a range of skills, perspectives and experience we can, which can make a real difference to all the communities that we serve.

Recruiting from the widest pool of people will mean we recruit individuals who can speak other languages, understand other cultures and minority groups, other lifestyles, religions and beliefs and are willing to use those skills to the benefit of the community and the organisation.

A more diverse workforce will build trust and confidence across communities, will improve engagement and sharing of information and provide both officers and staff with the skills to deliver a more confident, insightful and professional service.

We are currently under-represented by those from ethnic minority backgrounds, from those with a disability, and from women. We are very keen to encourage applications from these groups and to support them through every stage of the process, we have dedicated recruitment and inclusion teams.

Did you know you can get pre-application advice and support from our Inclusion team? Did you know we also do familiarisation sessions, pre-sift/OAC support and pre interview support? So, what’s stopping you?

Contact the team via email - [email protected]. 

Our support networks

We are proud of our Inclusion & Diversity Network and the individual support networks formed, each representing a protected characteristic, to provide support, assistance, information and guidance to Police Officers, Police Staff and their families with both personal and professional issues.

They have a key role in providing ‘lived experience’, insight and perspective to the Organisation to develop our service delivery.  

We have staff support networks covering:

• disability
• race
• religion
• gender
• LGBTQ+
• neurodiversity (including dyslexia, autism etc.)