Working at Merseyside Police

Merseyside Police serves a population of around 1.5 million people, covering an area of 647 square kilometres. With a workforce just over 7,000 we are one of the largest employers in Merseyside.

We currently employ approximately 4,211 Police Officers, 2,479 Police Staff, 197 Police Community Support Officers and 128 Special Constables.
Across the Force, we actively recruit people who reflect the communities we serve; people of diverse backgrounds, experience, and career aspirations.
- We believe that diversity of human experiences and viewpoints in our teams strengthen the service that we provide to our communities.

Merseyside Police pay competitive salaries and generous leave entitlement, rising with length of service.

We are very proud to promote healthy work-life balance policies, such as hybrid working, flexible working hours, flexitime, part-time opportunities, career breaks and flexible retirement, we also provide a Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions; generally regarded as one of the best schemes in the public sector. Wider employee benefits can be found on our careers pages.

Jobs in policing are like no other – they are founded in the trust we place in each other and the pride we take in serving our communities.

We stand by our ‘ONE Team’ ethos at Merseyside Police, making us a better, more effective force, working together in a culture of inclusivity and respect.

Across the Force, we actively recruit people who reflect the communities we serve; people of diverse backgrounds and experience, with different career aspirations.

- We believe that diversity of human experiences and viewpoints strengthens the service that we provide to our communities.

Merseyside Police is one of the best performing forces in the country and it takes people from all sorts of different backgrounds with a wide range of skills and experience to achieve this.