Investigations Officer X2

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 352299**Salary**:

- £34,350 - £37,500- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer- G(i)**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- SIA - Partnerships and Intervensions - The SIA is the organisation responsible for the regulation of private security. It is an independent, arm’s length body (ALB) of the Home Office, reporting to the Home Secretary, under the terms of the Private Security Industry Act 2001. The SIA’s purpose**Type of role**:

- Investigation**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 2Contents

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- London (region), South East EnglandAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- This role will be reporting to a Regional Investigations Manager, who in turn reports to the Senior Manager of the Compliance and Enforcement team. There are many SIA key contacts from all directorates which include**: Police, Local Authority, Private Security Industry businesses, Members of the public, Regulated individuals, HMRC and other Government agencies and End users of security services**.**

**Job description**:

- Our new investigations officer will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team of home-based investigators, ensuring national and regional SIA compliance and enforcement strategies are implemented**. **We want our future team player to have an interest in** investigations** or already be working in this arena with an interest in taking a next step up the **career ladder**. Given the evolving technologies, it’s vital our new team player is able to keep abreast of developments and changes in **the private security industry** as well as working in a fast-paced, but extremely exciting environment.**Person specification**:

- ** Risk Management** -. Identify, manage, and mitigate threat, risk and harm posed by businesses and people operating in, or impacting on, the regulated private security industry, through intelligence led casework, and through planning and undertaking regional and national inspection activity that supports the SIA strategic priorities.
- ** Casework Management**:

- Lead timely and effective management of complex case work and investigations into suspected non-compliance with the Private Security Industry Act (PSIA), identifying and implementing appropriate support and compliance strategies which deliver SIA regulatory outcomes. Plan, manage and conduct PACE (or equivalent) compliant interviews with regulated persons and suspects, identifying and dealing with any alleged PSIA criminal offending using own judgement and with autonomy to dispose of offences via a set framework of regulatory warnings, improvement notices and letters.
- ** Partnership Management** - Develop and lead effective strategically important, and tactical, relationships with law enforcement partners for the purpose of delivering regulatory outcomes, and the wider Government and policing public safety agenda. Work with those law enforcement and local authority partners and the regulated industry to improve standards of service delivery and public safety by raising awareness of good practice in the fields of counter terrorism, Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, Modern Day slavery and Human Trafficking.
- ** Compliance Assurance** - Ensure compliance at high risk, high footfall events through proactive engagement with Safety Advisory Groups, enforcement partners, event organisers and security providers, to deliver the objectives and aims of the organisation’s Events strategy. Where compliance strategies have been exhausted, compile accurate paperwork, and evidence and refer for consideration for prosecution. Present clear and articulate witness evidence in the relevant courts where required.
- ** Intelligence** **Handling** - Proactively contribute to the intelligence collection cycle through; the identification and submission of information and intelligence, by encouraging partner intelligence exchange, and providing guidance to the industry to increase submissions.
- ** Knowledge -** Through CPD maintain an expert level of knowledge of the Private Security Industry Act and other relevant legislation including but not limited to PACE, CPIA, relevant Licensing Acts. Proficient knowledge, understanding and autonomy to exercise personal regulatory powers provided under the PSIA s19, and the associated personal criminal offence of unauthorised disclosure.

**What skills are we looking for?**
- Hold or ability to work towards achieving the Professionalising Investigative Practice Qualification.
- Experience of complex case management with the ability to make autonomous and effective decisions that are supported by accurate records.
- Excellent problem identification and solving skills, with an analytical ability for volumes of data and intelligence and a solution focus.
- Ability to plan and prioritise competing demands to