Dedicated Source Unit Officer

Derbyshire Constabulary; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Part time

Job summary

Derbyshire Constabulary is seeking a Constable to plan and manage CHIS operations, ensuring compliance with RIPA 2000 and NPIA guidance. The role involves ethical supervision of CHIS activities, documenting risks, and delivering detailed information within tight deadlines.

You will work to tackle crime through CHIS, manage associated risks, and ensure CHIS activities align with standards while delivering accurate electronic application documentation.

Qualifications

• Must be a Police Constable or Detective Constable.
• Possesses an investigative mind-set.
• Possess a full UK current driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Tackle criminality and organised crime through CHIS.
• Manage threat, risk and issues related to CHIS handling.
• Handle and manage CHIS in line with NPIA guidance on CHIS management.

Skills

Investigative mindset

Compliance mindset

Education

Police Constable or Detective Constable

Tools

UK driving licence

Job description

Collect and analyse for the safety of our communities

You will be responsible for planning and managing a demanding workload, ensuring compliance with specific authority conditions within strict deadlines, and preparing accurate electronic application documentation in compliance with the RIPA 2000. A significant part of the role will involve you ethically managing and supervising the activities of Covert Human Intelligence Sources ensuring that all risks are identified, documented and mitigated whilst obtaining and submitting detailed information

What You’ll Be Doing

• To tackle criminality and organised crime through the use of CHIS.
• Managing threat, risk and any other issues highlighted associated with CHIS handling
• To handle and manage CHIS in line with NPIA guidance on the management of covert human intelligence sources.

The must haves

• Must be a Police Constable or Detective Constable
• Possesses an investigative mind-set.
• Possess a full UK current driving licence

What’s in it for you?

At Derbyshire Constabulary, we want to create an environment that puts people first, so you feel supported in everything you do. We have a range of reward and benefits available to all our employees.

What’s Next

• To support you with your application we have provided some guidance on our recruitment process.
• Vacancy closes Thursday 12th November at 23:55

Internal Colleagues

• Derbyshire Constabulary: All officers are reminded that their release to advertised roles is subject to final approval; This will be addressed through the Police Officer Deployment Panel, (PODP) to ensure resources are balanced between divisions and departments.
• Derbyshire: The force is currently not supporting applications from detectives, and NIE qualified trainee detectives, for advertised roles that don’t require PIP2 qualification unless the advertisement specifies otherwise. This is due to current resourcing needs in roles that do require PIP2. The force continues to actively monitor this and will review the approach at the start of the next financial year.

All officers are reminded that their release to advertised roles is subject to final approval; This will be addressed through the Police Officer Deployment Panel, (PODP) to ensure resources are balanced between divisions and departments.

Who We Are

Derbyshire Constabulary has a strong and unequivocal commitment to delivering a high-quality policing service for everyone in the county - whether for our one million residents or our ten million visitors to the Peak District. By joining us you'll play a unique role in helping us to keep Derbyshire as one of the safest places to live and work in England.

To understand how you can make Derbyshire safer together visit our careers website.

For part time hours the salary will be calculated on a pro-rata basis, this is based on the number of hours for the vacancy.

We welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds and encourage anyone who has considered a career in policing to apply. We are particularly keen to increase the number of females and candidates from black and minority ethnic communities and candidates from the LGBT community, so that we can truly reflect the communities that we serve in.