Volunteer Policing Week on PTV

Dr Iain Britton talks to Bernard about how police volunteers play a crucial role in policing organizations worldwide, engaging in a wide range of activities and they introduce Policing TV's Volunteering week starting the 26th August

Over the last 3 months we have recorded interviews and attended conferences and symposiumns around the world pulling together some great insight and amazing contributions form 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 !

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.

Keywords
police volunteers, policing organizations, activities, police reserves, auxiliaries, special constables, crime prevention, community safety, victim support, offenders, specialist skills, international community

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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