Intelligence Officer

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Job Title: Intelligence Officer (various teams available).
 

We are currently recruiting for Intelligence Officers to work in a variety of roles across the Intelligence department, this is an exciting opportunity to join a fast paced dynamic department, joining a team of over 400 experienced officers and staff.

The role of an Intelligence Officer is fundamental to policing. It is used to understand crime and disorder issues, to investigate criminal incidents and to support the development of knowledge in increasingly diverse specialist areas. Within the Intelligence teams you can be working on a variety of subject matters from some of the UK’s most serious and organised crime networks, to the criminals and networks that are causing day-to-day policing challenges in terms of acquisitive crime and low level disorder. 

The Intelligence Officer develops and evaluates intelligence, making an assessment of the threat, risk, harm, vulnerabilities and opportunities which exist and identifying gaps. They manage the dissemination of the assessment or intelligence product, support reactive, proactive and/or crimes in action and provide advice on appropriate tactical options to support policing priorities. 

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Evaluate information to determine its intelligence potential

• Interrogate appropriate Force and National databases and systems to develop intelligence and conduct open source research in accordance with NCPP guidelines. 

• Receive and develop intelligence working with the relevant supervisor to initiate action appropriate to the threat and risk presented

• Identify intelligence gaps and make recommendations for directed intelligence gathering activities

• To assess the necessity and proportionality of targeting Intelligence collection through Covert assets

• Develop and research information and intelligence reporting findings in order to support investigations

• Contribute to the preparation of Strategic and Tactical Assessments and identifying key crime and vulnerability threats which will inform assessment and drive Force Executive Strategy and Policy decisions

• Identity, develop and escalate threat in real-time to support critical incident management

• Proactively and reactively identify hotspots and crime series

• Prepare Intelligence products including those contributing to intelligence summaries and subject packages in support of investigations

• Prepare and inform the Firearms risk assessment process through the production of appropriate Intelligence products

• Provide critical incident intelligence support as directed by the Intelligence Supervisor

• Provide intelligence cell support to overt/covert critical / major incidents. 

• Provide intelligence submission to DMM as directed by the Intelligence Supervisor. 

• To track and review the use of Covert Intelligence Tactics in support of Investigative strategy

• Live time monitoring of incidents making fast time decisions on prioritisation of logs for further Intelligence development based on Threat, Risk, Harm and Force Priorities.

Essential criteria

• A minimum of 2 years  experience in an Intelligence environment or from a recognised research background (e.g. Academia)

• Experience of identifying Intelligence gaps with demonstrable ability to prioritise, evidencing research skills with the ability to problem solve

• Awareness of Overt and Covert police tactics 

• Potential to undertake sensitive enquiries and therefore exhibit high standards of integrity, confidentiality and professionalism. 

• Knowledge of the National Intelligence Model (NIM) and the College of Policing APP Guidance on the Management of Police Information (MOPI) and Intelligence Management

• Demonstrate ability to prioritise and manage competing demands

• Effective interpersonal communication skills: including verbal and written. The post holder will be articulate, methodical, conscientious and concise

• Ability to build positive relationships with colleagues, internal and external partners

• Experience of and ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative, effectively planning and organising activities and resources to meet objectives 

 Desirable:

• Knowledge of investigation techniques

• Evidence of preparing and delivering presentations

• Practical knowledge of police intelligence systems. 

Hours of Work

Roles may require the need to work on a shift pattern which could encompass early mornings, late evening, night shifts and weekends. There is a requirement to work flexibly at all times with due regard to prevailing workloads and priorities. There may be a requirement at times to travel to other locations within the region and nationally. Due to the nature of this role it is essential that intelligence officers are flexible in terms of their working location and are prepared to work temporarily at other locations. The ability to locate within the force area at short notice. 

Posts Available

1. I24 (4 posts) - Based at C3 working full shifts (2 x Earlies, 2 x Lates, 2 x Nights, 4 rest days) THIS POST ATTRACTS 33.39% SHIFT ALLOWANCE)

    

2. County Lines Task Force (1 post) – Based at Centro House, Birmingham working primarily Monday to Friday day hours with expectation to remain on duty to cover OPS room deployments NO SHIFT ALLOWANCE

    

3. Central Intelligence Team Threat Desk (1 post) – Based at Lloyd House working Monday to Friday NO SHIFT ALLOWANCE

    

Vetting

Successful applicants will be required to pass Management Vetting (MV) scrutiny prior to commencing their role, this will include a full background & financial disclosure as part of the vetting process.  For those working on I24 or County lines, Security Clearance (SC) vetting is needed in addition to MV.

Medical

 

Appointment to this role may be dependent upon successfully completing medical checks, which may include a drugs test and if required a fitness test.

 

West Midlands Police is a Disability Confident Leader - the highest level an organisation can achieve under the scheme run by the Department of Work and Pensions.  As part of our commitment we operate a ‘Disability Confident Interview Scheme’ - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be offered an interview. 

It is important to note that there may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people who meet the essential criteria for the job. For example: in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. In these circumstances, the employer could select the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job, as they would do for non-disabled applicants.

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