PS/415/B - Scale 5/SO1 - Triage Technician - Digital Forensic Team - Corporate & Intelligence

Police Staff
Corporate & Intelligence
Bedfordshire Police Force
Headquarters, Kempston, Beds
Digital Forensic Team
Permanent
SC5-SO1
£22,668 - £31,995
Full Time
No
NA
**Please note that this vacancy has now closed and is available to redeployees only; it will not be checked on a regular basis by the recruitment team. It is therefore essential that if you apply for this role, you e-mail BCHCareers@herts.pnn.police.uk to notify us that you have submitted an application. We will then process it for shortlisting. If you do not notify us by e-mail that you have submitted an application, it will not be picked up. Please also ensure that you notify your allocated Change Advisor of any redeployee applications that you have submitted.
Redeployees who apply will be given priority over any other internal applicants for permanent roles up until the point that an offer has been accepted either verbally or in writing.
If a role is not filled by an internal candidate and is advertised externally, redeployees will continue to get priority over external applicants until a successful candidate has received a final offer of employment.**


Applications are invited from motivated, enthusiastic hardworking individuals for the post of Triage Technician based at Bedfordshire Police Headquarters in Kempston within the Digital Forensic Unit.

Bedfordshire Police is a forward thinking force which has invested in its digital forensic unit over the last few years and continues to do so. It has accreditation to ISO17025 along with its partner labs in Cambridgeshire and ERSOU. Bedfordshire provides technical support at a local and regional level, contributing resources to tackling the increasing threat of cyber and digitally supported criminality.

As a Triage Technician you will be disassembling computers, laptops and other digital devices to access their storage drives. You will use digital forensic software to carry out initial triage of exhibits to establish of the device contains evidential data. You will acquire storage drives to an evidential standard in compliance with ISO 17025, relevant legislation, policy, protocols and codes of practice.

It should be known that successful candidates will be in an environment which is exposed to indecent images of children.

All applicants should be able to evidence and demonstrate experience and knowledge in using and understanding the workings of different operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac and Linux.
It is desirable that applicants will hold a relevant computing degree, with an insight to computer forensics.

Experience in the use of any forensic tools such as FTK, Encase, IEF or Axiom are also desirable, but training will be provided.

For the purposes of the application you will be expected to provide evidence against the four personal qualities below and the entry requirements:

- We take ownership
- We deliver, support and inspire
- We analyse critically
- We are innovative and open-minded

There is a word count limit of 500 words per section.

Selection will be by paper sift and interview, all based on skill categories, essential, desirable and advanced criteria.

For further details about this role please contact Simon House at the following email address simon.house@bedfordshire.pnn.police.uk

* All applications must be submitted through our online recruitment website by clicking the apply button below.

** All internal applicants must have successfully completed their probationary period in order to apply for this role.

*** Please note that this advert will be live to redeployees throughout the recruitment of this advert. Any redeployee that applies will only need to evidence against the minimum entry requirements of the role profile. To do this if you are a redeployee, write ‘Redeployee’ in the other competency boxes and just complete your evidence against the minimum entry requirements in the relevant box. Redeployees will take priority over other candidates at any point during the recruitment process up until a final offer is produced and you will be notified if this happens.
8 September 2019

This opportunity is closed to applications.