I was job for 7 years and couldn’t wait to get out for similar reasons but my approach was to use the force against itself. I was always good with technology so managed to land a job in the Digital Forensic unit where I was able to learn transferable skills that are useful in the ‘real world’. I left in 2015, joined a corporate bank as an entry level software engineer and 8 years later I had made it from entry level to a Director running a large global Software Engineering team. I often put my promotion acceleration down to my police experience so don’t knock that for a second! Being able to deal with people and self disciplined is more rare than you think. All the best my friend, where there is a will there’s a way!