Pete Jones

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Diversity and police recruitment: We have a ‘once in a generation’ opportunity to finally get this right

27th August 2019

Pete Jones - Chartered Psychologist, Shire Professional Chartered Psychologists

Opinion: Police recruitment methods have failed to deliver on diversity. With 20,000 new police officers about to join the service, Chartered Psychologist Dr Pete Jones, who specialises in implicit bias around recruitment selection and assessment, warns the service not to squander this 'once in a generation' opportunity to get it right.

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Dr Pete Jones is a Chartered Psychologist and Chartered Scientist specialising in the impact of implicit bias, particularly around selection and assessment. Pete is the author of the workplace bias test ‘Implicitly’® developed after the secret Policeman documentary in 2003. He wrote the sections on recruiting in the 2018 British Psychological Society book ‘The Psychology of Ethnicity in Organisations’. He has delivered training and consultancy services to a number of UK police forces, many private sector organisations across sectors, as well as central Governments departments, universities and agencies of the European Union.