Overview
South Yorkshire Police - Chief Inspector / Detective Chief Inspector - September 2025
Closing Date – Midnight Friday 17 October 2025
If you have the drive, the vision, and qualities to become a Chief Inspector at South Yorkshire Police, we want to hear from you. The force is seeking applications from substantive Inspectors/Detective Inspectors or substantive Chief Inspectors/Detective Chief Inspectors looking to transfer, to join SYP in delivering the best service ensuring the force continues to improve, delivering the highest quality service for members of the public. The process will be extremely competitive with only the very best candidates aligned to our values being successful.
Please note, Inspectors applying to this role must have 18 months of substantive service (Including NPPF Portfolio)– periods of continuous temporary service will be counted. Your NPPF Portfolio must be completed and signed off.
About The Role
As a Chief Inspector/Detective Chief Inspector, you form part of a local senior leadership team, working collectively with colleagues to deliver excellent policing services.
Responsibilities
On appointment, we will assess successful candidates’ skills and experience, and they will be required to form part of the force cadre responsibilities, performing one or either of the below listed roles following appropriate training and mentoring:
* Force critical incident manager, tactical firearms
* PIP level two manager
* Public order bronze or silver
Unless otherwise exempt from PSU; for uniformed applicants we expect you will be PSU trained to level two and have deployed operationally twice during the last 12 months (exceptional circumstances are considered). If you are not already a trained and accredited bronze commander, be prepared to undertake this challenging role. If you are an existing public bronze commander, be prepared to train as a silver commander.
You will play an intrinsic part in ensuring the public receives the very best service from us, by working proactively and collaboratively with colleagues. The key aims of South Yorkshire Police should always be at the forefront of everything you do.
We Are Looking For Leaders Who Will
* Motivate and inspire staff, engaging with them and implementing change effectively
* Have operational credibility
* Be able to drive, improve and deliver performance outcomes
* Be truly committed and passionate about the service provided to the public of South Yorkshire.
Application Process
The process is now open and will consist of the following:
Step 1: Online Application - Closing Date: Midnight – Friday 17 October 2025
All candidates will be required to register their interest and online application via (Oracle), confirming you meet eligibility criteria. We have produced an application pack that provides further information about our roles here in South Yorkshire Police. To view the application pack, please click here. All candidates who register their application will receive a formal application form via email which will include answering two CVF based questions. Candidates will also need to include written Line Manager comments and sign off from their Chief Superintendent – this can be uploaded to Oracle as an attachment, along with a copy of your last completed PDR (prior to the new Oracle system PDR).
Step 2: Information Events - Register your interest
You may be interested in attending one of our online information events, to help with understanding our application processes and what to expect. These are non-mandatory and hosted by our Talent Team and supported by our Leadership team to provide an insight into South Yorkshire Police and provide recent experiences at this rank.
* 7th October 2025 - 3.00pm-5.00pm - Chief Inspectors Familiarisation Event
* 14th October 2025 - 3.00pm-5.00pm - Chief Inspectors Familiarisation Event
All applications that have been registered will receive an email invite.
If you would like to express your interest in attending an online information event, please email: promotions@southyorks.pnn.police.uk
Step 3: Application Questions & Leadership Support
Your application questions will be emailed to you along with the support templates for your Line Manager and Chief Superintendent to complete. This will be used as part of a shortlisting process to select suitable candidates for interviews. These are assessed by Chief Officers against the Competency and Values Framework (CVF) and scored one to five; successful applications will need to meet the pass mark of three on both questions to be shortlisted. This can be uploaded to your Oracle application when complete, though if you require support with this – you can reach out to promotions@southyorks.pnn.police.uk who can support you with adding this evidence.
For external applicants – we encourage that support is obtained in advance of your application and you include this on your formal application form. Though we appreciate you may not have informed your current force of your intentions. If so, satisfactory support will be required for successful applicants as part of your references, in line with our offer and onboarding processes.
Step 3 (Interview):
Interviews will take place on the following dates: 11th, 18th, 27th November 2025. Panels chaired by the Assistant Chief Constable, with Chief Superintendent, supported by a Police Staff panel member. Any further information required for interview will be shared with successful candidates from the initial shortlisting stage.
Further Information
SYP is running the 2025 Chief Inspector promotion process to fill approximately five vacancies, with deployment expected in Dec 2025/Jan 2026. These include detective and uniformed postings across South Yorkshire. If you are successful at interview, please expect to be posted in accordance with force demand. Consideration will be given to any restrictions on location of deployment where possible, however filling vacancies based on force demand is a priority. After we have met the current force demand, we may utilise a select list to have a pool of candidates who meet the benchmark to be promoted to Chief Inspector rank and will be posted throughout 2026.
South Yorkshire is a culturally diverse area and to ensure that our service is fully representative of the communities we serve we welcome applications from all under-represented groups and individuals wishing to work part time. positiveaction@southyorks.pnn.police.uk
South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
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