Case Owner

We are currently recruiting for a Case Owner to work within the Criminal Justice Team at Camborne Police Station for Devon and Cornwall Police.

This is a full-time temporary position working 37 hours a week and will be based in the office at Camborne Police Station.

**Principal Responsibility**

To support the delivery of an effective Criminal Justice system by ensuring prosecution files are complete; by inputting and maintaining police data systems (paper and electronic) and liaising with other agencies to secure the delivery of the crime fileto the Crown Prosecution Service and interested parties to the required standard and timescale. In particular to: -- Complete an administrative check on the contents of the case file received from the Officer in Charge, ensuring completeness to Force policy and CPS requirements.
- Request and gather information from a variety of sources, including partner agencies and other external agencies, so as to ensure the completeness of the case file.
- Ensure high quality prosecution files by correctly inputting, maintaining and, where appropriate, monitoring data on the police database in a timely manner and having regard to Force policy and legislative requirements and further, ensuring such informationis correctly relayed to partner agencies and their database systems.
- Prioritise and manage a workload, ensuring that timelines are followed for each case, allowing time for other agencies such as CPS, sufficient time to deal with their responsibilities.
- Effectively communicate either by telephone or electronic means all tasks/information allocated to or received from the OIC or police personnel, CPS and other agencies and provide advice/guidance when required.
- Support colleagues, especially new staff, by providing instruction, guidance and advice where necessary.

**Role-Specific Training and CPD to be undertaken.**
- Appropriate Force and CJS IT systems (Currently Storm, Unifi Crime, PNC, Unifi Case Prep, Unifi Custody, LIBRA, PENT and Xhibit.)
- Maintain knowledge of Criminal Justice Unit working practices and how their role contributes to the criminal justice system.

**Essential experience and specialist skills and knowledge**
- Demonstrable ability to use bespoke, complex databases
- Proven ability to write clearly, concisely and unambiguously so as to aid well structured file and data entry
- Demonstrable ability to communicate verbally with a diverse variety of partner agencies, police officers and staff all of whom may have particular needs
- Proven ability to challenge robustly others' entrenched positions
- Demonstrable emotional resilience to help deal with difficult information on crime files
- A basic understanding of the criminal justice system (CJS) and the relationship between the CPS, court systems, victim/witness care units & defence solicitors

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