Drug Liaison Officer / Drugs Expert Witness (PC/DC)

Job Title Drug Liaison Officer / Drugs Expert Witness - PC/DC
Salary - Current
Contract Type Permanent

Staffordshire Police is continually striving to deliver the best possible service for the county’s residents, businesses and visitors. It is a fast-paced organisation, adaptive to modern policing needs and open to continual improvement.

Everyone who works for the force has an important role to play in shaping the future of Staffordshire Police. The force seeks people who will champion new ways of working, be collaborative and agile and represent in a fair and ethical manner those that Staffordshire Police serves.

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About the Opportunity

Staffordshire Police Forensic Services is continually striving to deliver the best possible service for the communities of Staffordshire. Everyone who works for Forensic Services has an important role to play in shaping the future of how Forensics is delivered within Staffordshire Police. The department seeks people who will champion new ways of working, be collaborative and agile and represent in a fair and ethical manner those that Staffordshire Police services.

As a member of the Forensic Services Team the role of a Drugs Liaison Officer plays a key part in providing drug evidence and drug evaluation interpretation to investigating officers. The position provides departments and partner agencies with a focused, directed and co-ordinated approach. A key requirement of this role is to communicate written summaries of findings for investigating officers to review and to make informed decisions in order to progress enquires. In addition, to DLO’s provide evidential reports for the purpose of presenting evidence to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Court.

Role Specifics:

Provide Expert Witness Evidence, Drug Evaluation and Interpretation statements for the purposes of investigation, intelligence and case progression through to trial at court.
Provide advice support and guidance on managing offences and investigations involving drugs, researching national and international drugs trends as necessary.
Provide weight, identification, valuation and commentary in relation to seizures of controlled drugs in the absence of laboratory availability, for investigations meeting “urgent” criteria (remand cases).
Maintain close partnership working with agencies involved with controlled drugs i.e. Healthcare Commission, Primary care trusts, Home office Drugs, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, General Medical Council, and Medicines & Healthcare Regulatory Authority

Further details of the key tasks, responsibilities can be found within the role profile.

Please upload your CV to the CV section covering the requirements of the role that are available on the role profile.

Closing date: Thursday 22nd May 2025 at Midday

In addition to your salary, you will have access to a range of benefits including:

Pension Scheme - Employers Pension contribution 21.5% Staffordshire Pension Fund - Staffordshire Pension Fund - Home (staffspf.org.uk)
Generous holiday entitlement, plus Bank Holidays.
Flexible / Agile Working
Sick pay scheme
Fostering friendly policy
Family friendly policies – maternity, paternity, parental leave, adoption, disability leave and carers leave
Access to health and wellbeing support
Eye care vouchers
On site Gyms
Staff associations
Reward and Recognition
Blue light Card
Flexible working options
Training and development opportunities
Car lease scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Free Parking at selected sites
Onsite catering facilities
Access to Staff Networks
Union support
Financial products and services

Staffordshire Police is fully supportive of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and strives to employ a workforce that represents the community we serve.

Our vacancies are open to everyone and all appointments are made based on merit. We encourage and welcome applications from all underrepresented groups which include: Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, female, people who have a disability, those who are neurodivergent and persons of the LGBTQ+ community.

We use positive action to encourage potential candidates from underrepresented groups through targeted step-In support and advice sessions. If you have the skills, experience and values, that here in Staffordshire Police we pride ourselves on, then we would welcome you to apply.

For more information on Positive Action please email the team on positive.action@staffordshire.police.uk

For any Recruitment queries please email hrrecruitment.team@staffordshire.police.uk

Please note if you are successful at interview and commence pre-employment checks this will include vetting, please see what this involves and the process via the below link:

Police vetting process | Join The Police (joiningthepolice.co.uk)