A poor relation to the Metropolitan Police.
The Met gets the better candidates as the pay is a lot better and is close by and the work is rich and varied.
TVP end up with unmotivated staff who dislike the public but have to do something after dropping out or failing from their chosen vocations.
My experience of them has been in domestic incidents and on the streets. I have found them to be very aggresive and performance targets related.
Don't look for sympathy from them, they are motivated only by issuing fines, PNDs, warnings, tickets of any sorts and a policy of "Positive Intervention", which means if there is a report of a domestic incident, the man is automatically arrested and spends 12 hours in a police cell, even if he has done nothing wrong.
Other then that they declair dodgy overtime and drive around in expensive motors meeting the ethnic minorities and doing bugger all else wise. read more