In the present communication photoconductivity has been studied in Safranine-T dye doped solid state polymer photoelectrochemical cell (PEC). The cell contains a blend made of Safranine-T dispersed in polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), polyethylene oxide (PEO) complexed with ammonium perchlorate (NH1ClO4), ethylene carbonate (EC) and propylene carbonate (PC). A thin layer of this blend is sandwiched between two ITO coated glass plate electrodes. The photoresponse is observed in our system illuminated by a tungsten lamp in presence of an external bias voltage. Photocurrent changes with the applied bias voltage and the typical change is about 1.68 muA for a device area of 0.64 cm(2) at a bias voltage of 1.5 V and at an incident intensity of about 40 mW/cm(2) which indicates a sensitivity of 0.66 x 10(-4) A/W. In the present work the dark current-voltage (I-V) characteristic and the variation of the photocurrent with time have been investigated. At low operating voltage the I-V characteristic is ohmic while at high bias voltage an exponential distribution of trap centers gives a good fit to the dark I-V characteristic. The experimental results show a non-exponential growth and decay of photocurrent with rich structure which may indicate a dispersive transport in such disordered amorphous systems. The dispersive transport model has been applied to explain qualitatively the experimental findings of this non-exponential photocurrent behaviour. The experimental data are fitted with a power law function as I-ph (t) proportional to t(alpha) for photocurrent growth and I-ph(t) proportional to t(-beta) for decay where I-ph (t) is photocurrent and alpha and beta are some constants at a particular bias voltage. The observed slow response speed of the device may be due to slow diffusion of ions as well as the immobilization of charge carriers at deep traps. The present investigation will be helpful to understand the performance of the device and the charge transport mechanism in dye doped solid state polymer electrolyte cell. (C) 2003 Kluwer Academic Publishers.