Surveillance Planning & Briefing Officer – Police Staff – Intelligence – CTPWM

Counter Terrorism Policing; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A law enforcement agency is seeking a Surveillance Planning & Briefing Officer in Birmingham. In this role, you'll coordinate between departments to prepare operational briefings and review surveillance evidence to ensure compliance with national standards. Responsibilities include liaising for documentation, managing records, and handling sensitive information with utmost care. The ideal candidate will demonstrate attention to detail and strong communication skills. This position offers a full-time, permanent contract in a vital intelligence role.

Responsibilities

• Liaising with intelligence departments for documentation before deployment.
• Preparing briefings, ensuring sensitive information is handled correctly.
• Reviewing surveillance evidence daily for accuracy and evidential standards.
• Proofreading surveillance logs for accuracy and planning comments.
• Assessing covert imagery from surveillance deployments.
• Managing records of evidential documents in departmental spreadsheets.
• Processing physical exhibits according to national policy.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Research skills

Ability to process and evaluate information

Job description

Surveillance Planning & Briefing Officer – Police Staff – Intelligence – CTPWM

Location: CTU, Birmingham, West Midland, B4 6NQ, GB

Contract type – Full Time, Permanent

Grade 6

Information about the role

As a Surveillance Planning and Briefing Officer, you’ll be the interface between CTU departments and the Surveillance teams, producing necessary documentation required for deployments. You’ll liaise with Senior Investigating Officers and partners and develop sufficient understanding of the intelligence picture, to ensure the operational briefing document is current and relevant.

Delivering Operational briefings to surveillance operatives, you’ll work alongside the Operational Intelligence Management Unit (OIMU) to assess threat, harm and risk matters, community impact and operational awareness and communicate these in support of the briefing and information sharing protocols.

You’ll be required to evidentially process, list and store all product obtained from the deployment, including summarising material to support the investigation and meet disclosure obligations. You’ll be responsible for proof reading the surveillance record and processing imagery, disseminating material obtained during deployments to support other evidential and identification objectives.

Responsibilities

• Liaising with intelligence departments to request, collate and research all documentation required prior to a covert deployment.
• Preparing and delivering operational briefings, ensuring all sensitive information is handled in accordance with Departmental, Force and National Guidelines, including importing images from various overt and covert sources, editing, enhancing and annotating images to populate any operational briefing.
• Reviewing and processing all surveillance evidence produced on a daily basis, ensuring the accuracy and evidential standard as required by the Investigating Officers.
• Proof reading all surveillance logs and viewing records to ensure accuracy and offer surveillance planning advice/comments within the current National Security Surveillance Report (NSSR).
• Viewing and providing first line assessment of all covert imagery obtained during a surveillance deployment.
• Creating accurate records of all accountable evidential surveillance documents within departmental spreadsheets in accordance with national standards. Managing retention and destruction of all surveillance product in line with national guidelines.
• Ensuring all physical exhibits are processed in accordance with national policy.
• Ensuring compliance with Force Policy on Equality and Diversity matters and that all best practices in covert criminal investigations are explored.

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