S5-victim Identification Officer

**Role type**
- 1Police Staff

**Contract duration**
- 1Permanent

**Contract type**
- 1Part Time

**Department**
- 1Crime

**Location**
- 1Force Headquarters, Winsford

**Grade/scale**
- 1SC 5

**Salary**

£27,789 - £29,874

Please note, if this is a paid role and the role is part time then the salary quoted will be pro rata based on the hours worked per annum.

**Hours per week**
- 137

**Closing Date**

10/04/2024, 23:55

**Job description**
- 1The Online Child Abuse Investigation Team (OCAIT) investigate referrals relating to the making, possession, and distribution of Indecent Images of Children (IIOC) and online grooming offences and proactively safeguard children through preventing harm and identifying victims.

Traditionally the OCAIT receives referrals in the form of reliable sources of intelligence from law enforcement agencies and partner agencies focussed on child safeguarding.
- We have an exciting opportunity to join the team as a Victim ID officer.
**As a Victim Identification Officer (VIDO) you will**:

- coordinate and assist in identifying child victims and offenders of child sexual exploitation from information contained within digital images and videos;
- provide vital information regarding locations, clothing, distinctive marks, scars, tattoos, equipment used to make the image, age of the image and connections between series of images;
- liaise with Child Exploitation Investigators and other Victim Identification Investigators at Local, Regional, National and International levels (including NCA CEOP, Europol);
- be a specialist user of the National Child Abuse Image Database (CAID) to achieve the safeguarding of victims of child sexual exploitation;
- ensure the immediate safeguarding of children and vulnerable individuals including working with partner agencies to achieve this.

You will receive training to assist you in this specialist role and you will develop skills and experience through the investigations you are involved in.

**This vacancy is a part time vacancy for 4 days.**

Cheshire Constabulary is fully supportive of diversity, equality and inclusion and strives to employ a workforce which is representative of the community it serves.

Applications are welcomed from all underrepresented groups and support will be made available throughout the recruitment process for all applicants. Under-represented groups include:

- People of ethnic minority
- Individuals who identify as having a visible or invisible disability
- Gender in relation to female representation for PC entry routes
- Gender in relation to male representation for Staff entry routes
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender + (LGBT+)