Detective Sergeant

**Department**:Intelligence
**Location**:Near Junction 12 of the M4
**Closing date**:02/07/2023

Applications are invited from Sergeants and Constables suitably qualified and supported for promotion, for the role of Detective Sergeant within the CTPSE Fixed Intelligence Management Unit (FIMU).

CTPSE is a specialist regional unit consisting of officers and staff from our five regional forces. We work with a range of partners to protect the public and national security by preventing, deterring and investigating terrorist activity. Our Intelligence Team assesses and develops partnership intelligence to support each area of our business, at a local and national level.

This role is a wide ranging one, providing opportunity to work with our UKIC partners developing and managing intelligence of significant risk. We manage risk on behalf of our forces and CTSIOs in order to meet our CONTEST objectives. There is great variety in this role which provides the opportunity to support operational activity across the CT network when a terrorist incident occurs, and there are many opportunities to become involved in regional and national work too.

In this role you will be privy to sensitive intelligence and tactics, and your expertise and that of your teams is crucial in enhancing operational activity and terrorist investigations. The role holder will be responsible for supervising the development of intelligence to manage threat and risk in relation to matters within the CT remit.

**Additional Information**

**Responsibilities**
- Supervise and lead the Intelligence Management Unit and other identified intelligence roles. Provide supervision and direction to ensure effective security measures exist for all secure IT and communication systems utilised within CTPSE as well as operating locations in accordance with national and partner standards.
- Monitor, assess, and manage new intelligence received into CTPSE undertaking joint assessments of threat and risk with partner agencies ensuring risks are identified, managed and allocated appropriately. Develop and manage professional working relationships with appropriate partners (local, regional, national), in order to maximise the exchange of information and intelligence.
- Supervise and drive forward intelligence development ensuring the use of tactical opportunities, overt and covert investigative techniques, and sensitive/confidential material is maximised.
- Control, manage, risk assess and quality assure all intelligence generated and disseminated by CT resources ensuring compliance with legislation, procedures, policies and standards.
- Ensure indexing is managed and progressed in a timely manner in accordance with national standards, providing supervision and quality assurance as required. In addition, ensure data owned by CTPSE is managed, reviewed, retained and disposed regularly and effectively in accordance with national standards and policies.
- Act as a point of guidance and reference to others within Force in relation to the post’s specialist knowledge and service provided by the department. This may include providing and delivering briefings and presentations to internal departments, partner law enforcement agencies and other stakeholders. In addition, represent CTPSE at intelligence and operational meetings within the department and across both forces as appropriate to the rank and role and as directed by line management.
- Provide operational resilience and support as appropriate to the rank and as directed by line management and provide support to spontaneous, critical and major incidents or events as directed.
- Conduct all responsibilities in strict adherence with all relevant legislation, codes of practice, standards, protocols, procedures and guidelines.

**Essential role based training**

To be provided once in post.
- National NCIA Assessor course.
- IPP - Intelligence Professionalisation Programme.
- Training to provide access to Surrey & Sussex SmartSTORM.
- Training to provide access to Surrey & Sussex Niche.

**Required knowledge/skills**
Essential
- Experience in the broad field of intelligence supervision including risk assessment, intelligence development and quality assurance. Proven and well evidenced experience of intelligence systems and procedures and associated legislation and procedures.
- Proven ability to lead and supervise a team ensuring workload is prioritised efficiently and effectively. Exceptional leadership skills with the ability to task intelligence actions and manage expectations across all ranks
- Demonstrates the ability to assimilate and assess large volumes of information, making sound operational and administrative decisions and the ability to deal with several complex tasks simultaneously.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and a proven ability to communicate information effectively at strategic and tactical levels and produce written reports.
- Highly motivated to perform the role with little super