Police Staff Investigator (PIP2)

Adecco; Exeter; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is looking for a Police Staff Investigator (PIP 2) to investigate serious crimes for Devon & Cornwall Police in Exeter. The role involves safeguarding vulnerable individuals, managing complex investigations, and working in partnership with various agencies. Candidates must have PIP Level 2 accreditation, robust interviewing skills, and experience in the criminal justice system. This is an office-based position and offers £18.12 per hour for a full-time schedule of 37 hours per week.

Qualifications

• Must have lived in the UK continuously for the last 5 years.
• Proven ability to deliver to tight timescales.
• Meticulous and thorough approach to tasks.

Responsibilities

• Safeguard and protect vulnerable people while investigating crimes.
• Prepare papers for court and provide clear updates.
• Attend and manage crime scenes, handling evidence.

Skills

Investigative skills

Interviewing suspects, victims, and witnesses

Understanding of the criminal justice system

Risk assessment

Manual handling

Driving

Education

PIP Level 2 Accreditation

Equivalence qualifications, skills, or experience

Job description

Adecco are pleased to be recruiting for a Police Staff Investigator (PIP 2) to join Devon & Cornwall Police at their HQ in Exeter, Middlemoor.

This role is working Monday - Friday, 37 hours. This is an office based role. It is £18.12 per hour.

The police staff investigators role PIP 2 involves investigating serious and complex crimes, dealing with victims, offenders and witnesses for Level 1 and Level 2 crimes. This may include domestic abuse, child abuse, vulnerable adult, missing, acquisitive crime, serious offences, enabled cyber and dependant cyber cases. A significant number of these cases will be heard at Crown Court and will therefore be subject to rigorous scrutiny, the offences will often involve the most serious level of offending and will therefore have the greatest impact on the victim and communities.

Responsibilities

• safeguard and protect vulnerable people, to investigate and detect NIM level 1 and level 2 crime and bring offenders to justice thereby supporting the Force mission, and organisational proprieties, Furthermore, to support the OPCC plan,
• investigate PIP Level 1 and Level 2 crimes, managing victims, interviewing offenders, and conducting a thorough investigation. Preparing papers for court and give a clear rationale and update on UNIFI. PIP2 investigators will deal with the more serious and complex cases and therefore will predominately give evidence at Crown Court,
• complete appropriate risk assessments for victims and offenders. Identifying vulnerability and implementing suitable measures to negate the risks,
• work alongside Partner agencies to manage the risks, working with the victim care unit to support victims,
• disclose material in accordance with the Criminal Procedures and Investigation Act. Maintaining ownership of the investigation post charge including where relevant its progression and hearing at court. Including family, criminal and coroner's court,
• handle intelligence submitting via the Force systems in accordance with NIM and acting on any intelligence when required to do so. Ensuring intelligence pictures are built in order to identify prolific offenders and potential targets,
• support and utilise the National Intelligence Mode (NIM) throughout investigations to ensure that prolific and priority offenders are identified and managed, and intelligence is appropriately gathered, analysed, and disseminated and to identify nominals as potential targets,
• attend and manage crime scenes e.g. rape, serious assault, suicide, sexual offences, search and seize exhibits which may include image analysis focusing on priority areas around children, missing, sexual abuse and modern slavery,
• deal with disturbing material in the form of viewing, listening to interviews and reading material with distressing content,
• work with neighbourhood teams to identify and to reduce risk, harm and vulnerability and work alongside them to problem solves.

In addition, there are some functions that are intrinsic to the role. An employer's duty of care and current legislation allows the Force to establish if a potential applicant could carry them out, either with or without reasonable adjustments. These functions are as follows.

• Manual Handling
• Lone working
• Driving Long Distances
• Working at night
• Work with Disturbing Evidence or Disturbing Circumstances
• Working with Vulnerable People
• Working in Environment with potential for Conflict, Violence (verbal / physical)
• To assist in ensuring applicants would be able to undertake these functions of the role, a medical assessment via a questionnaire will be undertaken and may subsequently require a consultation with the Occupational Health Support Unit.

Criteria

• PIP Level 2 Accreditation (PIP Level 2 Investigator, Supervisor or Manager) or equivalent qualifications, skills or experience as agreed by the Force PIP SPoC or Force PIP Lead on a case-by-case basis.
• Full UK Driving licence, unless prevented by reason of disability
• Demonstrate potential to undertake more complex aspects of the investigative process to meet PIP Level 2 standard.
• A detailed understanding of the criminal justice system.
• A meticulous and thorough approach to undertaking tasks
• Proven ability to deliver to tight timescales.
• Proven experience of interviewing suspects, victims and witnesses.
• Due to Police Criteria you must have lived in the UK continuously for the last 5 years.

If you have the skills for this position, please apply and if your CV is shortlisted one of our Adecco Consultants will be in touch.

Adecco acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. The Adecco Group UK & Ireland is an Equal Opportunities Employer.