Volunteering assignment 1
1: The importance of Volunteering
My chosen services are; Police Cadets and The Police Service.
In the Police service, there are many volunteering opportunities that give people the chance to be involved with the Police service. It is important in the Police Service to have volunteers due to the cuts happening in the service. As the table below shows between 2011 and 2015 over 213 officers have been made redundant.
Cheshire Police. (2009). Police Authority Publishes Budget Considerations.http://www.cheshirepa.police.uk/news?edid=4560 Last accessed 13/11/2014 at 14:33pm. One of the many volunteer opportunities in the police service includes the Special Constables. The Special Constables have the same duties as Police Constable but they do not get paid for the work they do, whilst being a Special Constable, they will also have a part time job. The service stands to gain a various range of experience and skills when having volunteers in the service. For example; some Special Constables may have experience within the Police force whereas other Specials may have little or no experience within the Police force. The force would gain a wide vary of skills from the recruits in which this could be shared with each other.
Another volunteer opportunity within the police force in which I volunteer with is the Police cadets. There are benefits that are gained whilst volunteering as a Police cadet, whilst completing the scheme, new life skills will be gained for example a bigger feeling of responsibility and the knowledge on how to make the right decisions later on in life.
The first organisation I will evaluate is the Police’s Special Constables. There are many advantages of which being a volunteer Special Constable would bring to many sectors. The community, government, service and the volunteer would all be advantaged of the Special Constables. The advantages of Specials in the community include; a decrease of crime in their community due to the volunteers giving up
My chosen services are; Police Cadets and The Police Service.
In the Police service, there are many volunteering opportunities that give people the chance to be involved with the Police service. It is important in the Police Service to have volunteers due to the cuts happening in the service. As the table below shows between 2011 and 2015 over 213 officers have been made redundant.
Cheshire Police. (2009). Police Authority Publishes Budget Considerations.http://www.cheshirepa.police.uk/news?edid=4560 Last accessed 13/11/2014 at 14:33pm. One of the many volunteer opportunities in the police service includes the Special Constables. The Special Constables have the same duties as Police Constable but they do not get paid for the work they do, whilst being a Special Constable, they will also have a part time job. The service stands to gain a various range of experience and skills when having volunteers in the service. For example; some Special Constables may have experience within the Police force whereas other Specials may have little or no experience within the Police force. The force would gain a wide vary of skills from the recruits in which this could be shared with each other.
Another volunteer opportunity within the police force in which I volunteer with is the Police cadets. There are benefits that are gained whilst volunteering as a Police cadet, whilst completing the scheme, new life skills will be gained for example a bigger feeling of responsibility and the knowledge on how to make the right decisions later on in life.
The first organisation I will evaluate is the Police’s Special Constables. There are many advantages of which being a volunteer Special Constable would bring to many sectors. The community, government, service and the volunteer would all be advantaged of the Special Constables. The advantages of Specials in the community include; a decrease of crime in their community due to the volunteers giving up