ERSOU ROCU - DC - Regional Investigation Team (South) - Ref 8920

ERSOU celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone is valued and respected. We actively encourage applications from underrepresented or minority groups. ERSOU is a Disability Confident employer. Should you require any reasonable adjustments for your application process, please contact the HR Service Centre on 01438 757777. We also offer the guaranteed interview scheme; this means that all candidates with a disability covered by the Equality Act 2010, who meet the minimum entry requirements for the role, will be invited to attend an interview. Where possible we will also consider flexible working requests.

Applications are invited from Detective and Police Constables / TI’s to join the Eastern Regional Special Operations Unit (ERSOU) for vacancies on the Southern Investigation Team (SIT).

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

At this time this advert is not open to Essex.

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. Officers are based within Mid-Hertfordshire but will need to demonstrate a flexible approach to start times and locations to meet operational objectives.

Successful applicants will be expected to pass an Advanced Driving Course and Surveillance Course. Once trained, there are further opportunities to specialise such as Armed Surveillance and other covert tactics. (Armed Surveillance training is not mandatory)

The post is open to both Detective and Police Constables who have a proven track record in dealing with serious and complex criminal investigations. If the Constable is not a Detective, they will be expected to join and pass the TI process.

Applicants outside of the Eastern Region would need to resign from their home force and transfer to Bedfordshire Police before being seconded back to ERSOU. Should the applicant not be successful on the TI process or Q1 surveillance course then the officer may have to be re-deployed within Bedfordshire.

Applicants must hold or be prepared to undergo Management Vetting (5 years residency criteria) and Security Clearance (5 years residency criteria) or Development vetting, if applicable, 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:

• Authorised Police driver
• Diversity Training
• Unarmed Defence Tactics Training
• Ability to undertake proactive investigations
• Awareness of covert tactics

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

• We take ownership
• We are collaborative
• Analyse critically
• We are innovative and open-minded

There are also two further areas which you will be required to provide evidence –

• Relevant experience and career history
• Investigation of serious and complex crimes

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

The closing date is Sunday the 8th of November 2020 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.ersourocu.org.uk

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