Intelligence Support Officer

Location of Role: Northfleet / Chelmsford 

Advert Closing Date: 25/12/2025 

Starting Salary: £27, pro-rata for part-time vacancies)

Part/Full Time: Full Time 

Contract Type: Permanent 

Working Pattern: Other (see advert text) 

Weekend/Evening Working: Yes 

Applications are invited for the position of SCD Intelligence Support Officer within the Intelligence Bureau at Chelmsford Police Station, Essex or Northfleet, Kent.  This is a home-based role with a requirement to attend the office roughly once per week.

This is a versatile role focused on assessing threat, harm, and risk through intelligence, while also identifying opportunities for proactive policing.

The work may be fast-paced in response to live incidents or conducted over longer periods. It demands meticulous attention to detail to ensure the accuracy and quality of intelligence, as well as effective linking and research of reports

The role supports partner agencies such as Probation and there is a requirement to complete in depth research for intelligence requests from these agencies.

At shortlisting we will be looking for essential evidence of:

Your ability to make informed decisions, ensuring tasks are completed to high standards and service delivery is maintained.  Openness and positivity to changing ideas, perceptions, and ways of working. Reflects on own way of working and seeks feedback to improve performance.Personal motivation and drive, excellent interpersonal skills, as well as the ability to form strong working relationships with colleagues.Understanding of the importance for data quality and takes a pro-active approach to recording and maintaining accurate records.

In addition, good IT Skills are desirable, as the role requires the use of various IT applications.

The full-time post holder will be required to work a shift pattern Monday to Friday between and on alternating weeks) and weekends and bank holidays on a rota basis.

For further details of the role please contact the Intelligence Coordinators at

Kent Police offer incremental increases within this salary band, therefore the salary for this position will rise to a maximum of £31,731.00.

For the full Kent job description please click here.

For the full Essex job description please click here.

Kent Police and Essex Police have separate salary grading systems therefore the salary for this position will be dependent on which home office force you are appointed to. This will be discussed with the successful applicant before a final offer is made.

Your application for this role will be shortlisted on the content you provide within the "reason for application" question, within the application form itself. CV's, covering letters or attachments are not included in the shortlist. Within your "reason for application" answer, please refer to any experience, skills, and abilities you feel you have that will make you suitable for this role, based on the role criteria stated in the job advert or job description. Please provide as much detail as possible as insufficient content may mean you do not meet the shortlisting criteria, however please note this question is limited to 9000 characters and this system will count spaces and blank lines as characters. This count may differ from the Microsoft Word word count function therefore you may wish to use a different online character counter to check the characters used.

All of our posts require a level of vetting and security clearance.  During the recruitment process you will be sent vetting information forms to complete. 

Kent Police and Essex Police welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, sex, or employment status.

Please let us know if you require extra support at any stage of the application process, or for further information regarding this position, please email us at stating 'Application Support and Adjustments' in the title of your email. Alternatively, you can call us on Where appropriate we will make adjustments to the selection process, working arrangements and/or the working environment provided it is reasonable in all the circumstances to do so.

If you're not from the UK, you must be a resident in the UK and have lived here continuously for the last three years. You must also be free from restrictions with indefinite leave to remain. If you're from the UK you must have lived here continuously for the last three years. This doesn't apply to those serving abroad in the British Armed Forces.

 Essex Police is a Disability Confident Leader, we:

have subjected our Disability Confident self-assessment to external challenge and validationare taking an active leadership role in encouraging and helping other employers on their journey to becoming Disability Confident.

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion are central to the values of our organisation. At Essex Police we value and embrace the unique experiences, identities and abilities that each of us bring to our roles. We strive to empower everyone to bring their authentic self openly and safely to work.

Through the dedicated commitment of our support networks, DE&I team and wider HR departments, we are on a journey to embed our DE&I commitments, ensuring Essex Police is an employer of choice; where everyone feels included.

Essex Police and Kent Police are an equal opportunities employer. Communications may be recorded for monitoring purposes.

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