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 & First Repsonder employees
- Government staff associated with resilience/public safety
- Volunteers of bona fide Public Safety & First Responder organisations
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Public Safety & First Responder Organisations
British APCO has members representing, amongst others, the following agencies - and we are always looking for more representatives from across the user community...
| Police |
Ambulance |
Martitime and Coastguard Agency |
| Fire |
Government |
Highways |
| Utilities |
Military |
Volunteer Organisations (e.g. British Red Cross) |
On occassion, we are asked to define who we include within “Public Safety & First Responder Organisations” - for British APCO, this means those agencies or departments of central or local government, which provide services concerned with:
- Emergency call handling
- Law enforcement
- Fire and emergency rescue
- Medical and ambulance services
- Civil resilience responders
- Emergency management and related activities that provide services to the public in an emergency or disaster situation
- Bona fide volunteer aid organisations recognised as such with support or endorsement by central or local government
Academic Membership
Academic Membership is also free for those studying degrees or researching in fields such as:
- Public Safety & Security
- Policing & Criminal Justice Studies
- Police Sciences
- Criminology & Police Studies
- Degree programmes and research areas that include elements of Public Safety or Technology (e.g. Computer Science, Sociology, Geography, etc)
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.
Commercial Membership
If you are employed in consultancy, IT advisory, or are a contractor to the public sector (including government departments) then we respectfully ask that you 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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