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A vacancy has arisen for an Operations Performance Analyst working within the Operations Tasking, Performance and ANPR department. The successful candidate will become an integral member of the Operations Intelligence & Tasking Department, leading on research for Safer Travel.
Safer Travel is committed to creating a Safer Transport Network in the West Midlands. Together, West Midlands Police, British Transport Police and Transport for West Midlands make up the Safer Travel Partnership and work to identify areas of the network vulnerable to crime, anti-social and nuisance behaviour. The team is intelligence led, drawn from a number of sources such as the officers, transport operators and reports from the public. The team also have access to over 1400 CCTV cameras, which are staffed 24/7 to identify and respond to incidents which are located in Bus, Rail and Metro stations. The team focus on intelligence led operations, with the aim of preventing and reducing crime on the bus/train/tram network.
As part of the Operations Tasking, Performance and ANPR Team the role also involves providing accountability and scrutiny to Operations Senior Leadership Team by researching and evaluating the Operations departments activity and outcomes and providing detailed research for the Operations monthly Performance Meeting as well as to the Force Performance Meeting.
You will join a team of analysts and researchers and become competent in the use of Business Insights, working together to provide analysis for WMP Operations. Successful applicants will be dynamic, motivated and enthusiastic individuals who seek a challenging and rewarding role. You must be able to demonstrate sound decision-making skills and the ability to manage a demanding workload.
You will experience competing demands and be expected to prioritise your workload according to Threat, Harm and Risk. You may experience conflict in the workplace from internal and external customers and must be able to communicate in a clear, rational and professional manner at all times. Managing people’s expectations and service delivery are at the forefront of everything we do.
This is a permanent contract and the successful candidate will be located at Roads Policing HQ, Thornbridge Avenue, Perry Barr, Birmingham, B42 2AG. There will be a requirement to travel to the Safer Travel Partnership based at the Safer Travel Command Centre, Centro House, Summer Lane, Birmingham and WMP Operations, C3, Park Lane, Aston B6 5DD on an ad hoc basis. The hours of this role are between 0800 and 1800 as per the police staff flexi time policy.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide analysis for a performance framework and outcomes for Operations to ensure accountability and scrutiny including Investigation data
- Support Safer Travel officers and colleagues by developing the strategic and tactical assessment and problem / subject profiles
- Provide a performance framework and outcomes for Operations to ensure accountability and scrutiny. This covers performance reporting on all Operations teams, including: Firearms, Drones, Dogs, OSU, Roads Policing, Safer Travel and more
- Monthly reporting to the Operations Performance meeting and to the Safer Travel performance meeting
- Use ANPR tools such as convoy analysis to identify people and vehicles of interest to the police
- Reporting and Documentation: Prepare detailed reports and documentation for Force Operations
- To produce reports on analytical findings in a coherent form, including the use of graphs and statistics
- Update and maintain external and internal website pages with new items of interest
- To comply with the National Decision Making Model , Management of Police Information (MOPI), Data Quality Principles, Data Protection and Intelligence Service policies and procedures
- Any other tasks commensurate with the role
Knowledge & Experience
Essential:
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Professionalism, integrity, deliver on promises, personal responsibility and commitment, resilience, energy and drive to get things done
• Must have the ability to work under pressure to specific deadlines, where necessary exhibiting both adaptability and flexibility
• Enjoy working and positively contributing as part of a team to meet both individual and team goals
• Sound decision making skills and demonstrate a proven methodology
• Effective time management
• Excellent IT Skills including the use of MS Office applications (specifically Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
• Potential to undertake sensitive enquiries with limited supervision and therefore exhibit high standards of integrity and professionalism.
• Understand and comply with the National Intelligence Model (NIM), Management of Police Information (MOPI), Data Quality principles, Data Protection and the Intelligence Service policies and procedures, including Government Security Classification (GSC) and Security Policy Framework (SPF)
• The candidate must be willing to be MV Vetted and pass this process prior to joining the department
Desirable:
• Previous analytical experience. Having attained a basic analyst practitioner qualification from a law enforcement agency.
• Be able to use the following West Midlands police systems – Business Insights / ANPR (NAS) / Command & Control (Control Works) / Insight / Police National Computer (PNC)
Vetting: Successful applicants will be required to pass Management Vetting and Counter Terrorism Clearance scrutiny prior to commencing their role, this will include a full background & financial disclosure as part of the vetting process.
Contact: For further information, please contact Richard Davin at 07741 816415
Interviews: TBC
Probation Policy - Under the Probation Policy, if you are currently in your probation period, “during your probationary period you will not be permitted to apply for alternative police staff roles within the Force unless there are exceptional circumstances. In such cases, you would require the support of your line manager prior to applying for alternative roles, and if successful, your probationary period will start over.”
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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