Public Sector & Academic Membership

British APCO is proud to offer FREE MEMBERSHIP for colleagues working in the following areas:

All current and retired Public Safety employees
Government staff associated with resilience/public safety
Volunteers of bona fide Public Safety & First Responder organisations

“Public Safety Organisations” shall mean those agencies or departments of central or local government, which provide services concerned with:

Law enforcement
Fire and emergency rescue
Medical and ambulance services
Emergency call handling
Civil resilience responders
Emergency management and other related activities designed to provide services to the public in an emergency or disaster situation
Bona fide volunteer aid organisations which are recognised as such with support or endorsement by central or local government

We have members representing the following sectors:

Police
Fire
Ambulance
Martitime and Coastguard Agency
Government
Highways
Utilities
Volunteer Organisations (i.e. British Red Cross)
Military

We also have free academic membership for those studying degrees or researching in fields such as:

Public Safety & Security
Policing
Policing & Criminal Justice Studies
Police Sciences
Criminology & Police Studies
Relevant to all degree programmes and research areas with element of Public Safety or Technology (e.g. Computer Science, Sociology, Geography, etc)

As well receiving all of our core member benefits, academic members will benefit from access to British APCO members for academic research. Our membership is made up of over 1500 public safety professionals including emergency services leaders and commercial associates. Academic members will be able to approach the membership for assistance in research projects and advice.

British APCO welcomes the opportunity to provide support for those working in academia – not only through bursaries but assisting with the gathering of information to support and guide your research. If you have a specific request then please send through all of the relevant details, explain the help that you would like from British APCO, and the Board will consider this at their next Board meeting. Successful requests will be communicated to the wider British APCO membership via email and social media – and we will be happy to share the outcomes of any academic work you are doing. Requests should be emailed to support@bapco.org.uk.

We previously assisted BAPCO Academic Member, Deborah Bruce of University of the West of Scotland, with participants for her research for her MSc dissertation.

If you are employed in consultancy, IT advisory, or are a contractor to the public sector (including government departments) please apply for Commercial Membership

We look forward to welcoming you soon! And if you have any queries please contact us at support@bapco.org.uk

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