Surveillance Officer

**Job Title**: Surveillance Officer - Police Staff
**Type**: Police Staff - Grade 6
**Salary**: £34,968 - £ 40,950
**Employment Type**: Permanent
**Closing Date**: Wednesday 29th November 2023

The job of a Surveillance Officer is like no other. Every day offers a variety of exciting challenges and exceptional opportunities played out across the West Midlands Police Force area.

You’ll work to become part of a newly created first class team utilising the latest surveillance techniques to help tackle those causing the communities of the West Midlands the most harm.

As a Surveillance Officer, you’ll need to display the highest levels of integrity, personal commitment and flexibility as you’ll be operationally focused around individuals and crime groups that pose the greatest threat, risk and harm to the public across the force area.

**MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

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- To support investigations in tackling crime, including serious & organised crime, by being an essential member of the surveillance team on their daily deployment/s.
- To be aware of and understand covert authorities and their support/parameters to/on deployments.
- In support of the surveillance function; Record and maintain a daily surveillance log of all such activity; Prepare accurate daily intelligence summaries to determine the extent and nature of criminal activity and to allow for future tasking; Provide statements of evidence in support of any criminal prosecution.
- To be aware of road traffic exemptions, before each deployment.
- To monitor the road worthiness of any vehicle used, and to take immediate steps necessary to remedy any issues which arise.
- To be responsible for own equipment
- To have a knowledge of photography and video capture methods, which could assist the evidence gathering process.
- Contribute to Surveillance Briefing/debriefing to ensure effective deployments and operational learning across the department.
- Promote equality, diversity and Human Rights in working practices by developing and maintaining positive working relationships, ensuring that colleagues are treated fairly and contributing to developing equality of opportunity in working practices.
- Maintain standards of professional practice - Ensure your behaviour complies with West Midlands Police values and organise your own work effectively to meet the demands of your role. Identify, implement and monitor development activities to enhance your own performance.
- Comply with Health and Safety legislation - Ensure that you show a duty of care and take appropriate action to comply with Health and Safety requirements at all times.
- If operational necessity requires it, to arrest person(s) committing crime.

**ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

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- Hold a valid or recently expired Q1 licence from the College of Policing
- To have a valid DVLA driving licence
- To hold/be working towards a current and valid advanced driving car authority. To be able to provide certification of these passes.
- Be available for a duty rota which the team operates, including working earlies, lates and into the night and weekends according to the task at hand.
- Flexibility within the role.
- Demonstrate by example a working knowledge of the National Intelligence Model and Regional Tasking processes in order to understand threat, risk and harm across the West Midlands Policing area.
- Demonstrate a broad understanding of legislation and procedure associated with the investigation of Serious and Organised crime i.e. RIPA, PACE, CPIA, DPA, IPA.
- Demonstrate an ability to communicate confidently to a variety of audiences.
- Work effectively as part of a team and develop relationships across the organisation and with external partners, stakeholders and relevant bodies.
- Demonstrate an ability to work with limited supervision; planning and prioritising own workload.
- Maintain a tactful and professional approach and ensure that working practices are consistent.
- Demonstrate a knowledge of the Government Agency Intelligence Network.

**DESIRABLE CRITERIA:

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- Police covert surveillance Motorcycle licence.
- Log keeping qualification
- Knowledge of current developments/advancements in surveillance technology and techniques.
- Covert Rural Officer

**Vetting**: Successful applicants will be required to pass Management Vetting and Security Clearance scrutiny prior to commencing their role, this will include a full background & financial disclosure as part of the vetting process.

**Medical**:Appointment to this role will be dependent upon successfully medical checks, which may include a drugs test and if required a fitness test.

**Interviews**: To be confirmed.

**About Us**

West Midlands Police is England’s second largest police force. Together we serve the 2.9 million people who call the region home - one of the youngest and most diverse populations in Europe.

The shared vision of our 12,500 officers, staff and volunteers is to be recognised as a police service that i