**Role Title**: Area Intelligence Researcher - HC616983

**Location**: Southampton, Portsmouth or Basingstoke (with hybrid working opportunities)

**Contract**: Permanent

**Hours**:Full time - 37hrs per week

**Starting salary**: £28,789.00 plus market supplement of £1250 per annum

**Closing Date**:Sunday 16th June 2024 at 23:59hours**

**Do you want to make a difference in keeping Hampshire and the Isle of Wight safe?**:
Our ‘Research & Analysis’ teams are looking for Area Intelligence Researchers to join their busy and important team. These teams are critical in helping Hampshire & IOW Constabulary with their purpose of making ‘You, Your Family, and Our Communities Safer’ by working together with intelligence officers to support the forces’ intelligence capability.

As a researcher, you will work in a busy team with other researchers and analysts, under the management and direction of a lead analyst. The teams are based in our three Police Investigation Centres (Basingstoke, Southampton and Portsmouth) and while you may be asked to travel between these locations on occasion, you will be primarily based at one._**About the Role**:
As an Intelligence Researcher, you will support the identification of vulnerable people and groups as well as potential crime series’. Your part will be to respond to requests for research assistance from the Analysts and Intelligence officers that you work alongside, as well as other stakeholders in the wider organisation, by collating, reviewing, evaluating and then disseminating information from a variety of sources.

You will be looking for trends in daily crime, incidents and intelligence to support the district-level responses to any issues that have the potential to cause harm, and for opportunities to safeguard and protect potential victims. Once you have identified any patterns, you will then produce maps and information summaries to support local and (if needed) force wide operations.

As part of the role, you will liaise with others involved in the intelligence process, including those working across police borders, to share findings and support briefings.

Your duties on any day may include:

- Build and maintain relationships with others in the intelligence department and local district officers, to assist in problem solving and decision-making. Your research will focus on highlighting the key issues and answering the right questions in the most efficient and appropriate way.
- Attend and contribute relevant information to daily district management meetings.

Promote the concept of ‘evidence based policing’ across the organisations and within the Research & Analysis team.For full details of this role, please click here for the role profile.

**About You**:
Do you experience in researching and collating data and have an understanding of research process and techniques?

Do you have good verbal and written communication skills?

Do you have the ability to produce accurate reports?

Are you able to prioritise and manage your time in a busy and fast paced environment?

**If the above sounds like you, then we would love to hear from you**

**How to Apply**:
In addition, you will be asked to provide evidence against the following topics. These areas form part of our police competency and values framework.

We Are Emotionally Aware Level 1

We Take Ownership Level 1

We Are Collaborative Level 1

We Deliver, Support and Inspire Level 1

We Analyse Critically Level 1

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**About Us**:
As an employer, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary also offers a wide range of benefits which include:

- An attractive contributory pension scheme
- Childcare Voucher and Cycle to Work schemes
- Access to Hampshire Police Leisure and Sport (providing a range of family and sporting activities)
- Gym facilities at a number of our buildings
- Access to retail and hospitality benefits via the Blue Light Card (Welcome to Blue Light Card)

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary is an inclusive employer and strives to have a workforce representative of the communities we police and serve. We recognise that we are not fully representative and are working to address this imbalance through a variety of initiatives.

The Disability Confident campaign aims to remove barriers, increase understanding and ensure that people have opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations. We will accommodate requests for reasonable adjustments where possible throughout our recruitment and promotions processes and encourage anyone requiring reasonable adjustments to disclose this at the earliest opportunity.