ERSOU ROCU South Investigation Team - Detective Inspector Ref:11403

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Applications are invited from Substantive Detective Inspectors to join the Eastern Regional Special Operations Unit (ERSOU) for a vacancy on the Southern Investigation Team (SIT).

This advert is open to officers within the region from Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Kent, Suffolk and Norfolk.

The ERSOU SIT conduct proactive and reactive investigations into serious and complex crimes under the Eastern Region Control Strategy utilising covert methods and tactics. The team is made up of multi-skilled investigators and surveillance operatives. The team is based in central Hertfordshire.

The post is open to substantive Detective Inspectors who have a proven track record in dealing leading serious and complex criminal investigations as Senior Investigative Officer.

Applicants outside of the Eastern Region would need to resign from their home force and transfer to one of the 7 Forces before being seconded back to ERSOU.

Applicants must hold or be prepared to undergo Management Vetting (5 years residency criteria) and Security Clearance (5 years residency criteria) before taking up the post. Please be aware the Police Corporate Vetting Unit will undertake security vetting on successful candidates, their family and others that live at their home address, which will include financial checks. Due to the sensitive nature of these checks, we are not able to supply feedback should clearance be declined.

Essential Skills/Attributes are:

• Surveillance experience or knowledge of Covert Policing/Tactics
• Previous experience of working in covert policing arena.
• Demonstrate ability to undertake serious crime/complex case conferences with CPS at Senior Level

Desirable –

• PIP3
• CLEM
• Experience of leading investigations as SIO on armed operations

You will be expected to provide written evidence around the following competencies and the minimum entry requirements from the role profile:

• We take ownership
• Analyse critically
• We Deliver, Support and Inspire
• Entry Requirements

Please note there is a 500 words limit for each competency.

The closing date is Saturday the 10th of December 2022 and applications will marked against the role profile and questions asked.

All applicants must print off a copy of the ROCU application approval form and pass this onto their line manager and head of department for authorisation. As this is a PDF document this will need to be wet signed. We will accept an audit trail of emails from your line manager and Head of Department if a wet signature is not achievable.

The completed approval form needs to be returned to ersou.recruitment@herts.pnn.police.uk as close to the closing date as possible.  Application forms will not be progressed to the shortlisting stage until the recruitment team has received a completed approval form.

Kent officers will need to have their approval form signed by their 1st line manager and then sent to hr.resource.planning@kent.essex.pnn.police.uk to be authorised by Chief Officers.

Interviews and applications will be competency based and marked against the policing professional framework and will require you to provide examples (ideally in the STAR format).

If you would like to arrange an informal chat with the vacancy manager for this role or for further information about the mileage from your home address to the working location or please contact: ersou.recruitment@herts.pnn.police.uk

For more information around operations that ERSOU have carried out please go to the following web site www.ersou.police.uk

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