Dedicated Source Unit Officer

Derbyshire Constabulary; Waingroves; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Derbyshire Constabulary is seeking a Dedicated Source Unit Officer to collect and analyse information for community safety. You will plan and manage a demanding workload, ensuring compliance with authority conditions within strict deadlines, and prepare accurate electronic documentation under RIPA 2000.

A significant part of the role involves ethically managing and supervising CHIS activities, identifying and mitigating risks while obtaining and submitting detailed information for assessment and

Qualifications

• Must be a Police Constable or Detective Constable and eligible to work in the UK.
• Investigative mind-set with analytical thinking.
• Full UK driving licence required.

Responsibilities

• Tackle criminality and organised crime through CHIS.
• Manage CHIS handling threats and risks in line with guidance.
• Follow NPIA guidance on the management of covert human intelligence sources.

Skills

Police Constable status

Investigative mindset

Driving licence

Job description

Dedicated Source Unit Officer 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.

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 available to all our employees.

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.

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.

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.