Job Title: Communications Data Investigator SPOC - Complex Crime
Location: Cobalt Square - Vauxhall, 1 South Lambeth Road, London, SW8 1SU
Contract: Permanent - Full time
Band/rank: Band D
Salary: The starting salary is £45,208, which includes allowances totalling £7,698.
The salary is broken down as a £37,510 starting basic salary (rising annually to £40,141), plus a location allowance of £2,009, a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000, and a shift disturbance allowance (SDA) equivalent to 12.5% of the basic salary.
Working hours: This is full a time position - 36 hours per week. Successful applicants will be required to work a combination of Early and Late shifts as part of a rolling roster. The ability to adapt to operational requirements is essential. As you will be required to work shifts, this role is awarded with a shift disturbance allowance (SDA).
The Role:
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Digital function within Met Intelligence of the Metropolitan Police.
Are you interested in providing critical intelligence in a hostage crisis?
Could you support operational teams that take down county drug line dealers
All of these jobs rely heavily on communications data to achieve a successful outcome
Could you be the one that helps crack these?
The Digital CIU Complex Crime Team SPoC acts as a subject matter expert in the acquisition, analysis, and secure handling of communications data, ensuring legal compliance and providing tactical advice to investigators in support of serious and complex crime investigations.
The role holder will deliver timely and accurate digital intelligence in high-risk operational environments, safeguarding life and underpinning successful prosecutions.
The role also provides operational support to critical incidents, including representing CIU within the C3000 Kidnap Suite ensuring fast-time tactical advice and lawful data acquisition.
Working for the Met doesn’t have to mean patrolling the streets. Just as important as our uniformed officers is our 14,000-strong team of professional and support staff working behind the scenes. It’s these skilled people who provide the organisational capability to police London.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide specialist advice pertaining to communications data in support of proactive and reactive investigations and crimes in action, to ensure that investigations are conducted with due consideration of expertise and best practice in this area.
- Review and quality assure communications data applications and engage with applicants to ensure necessity, proportionality and collateral intrusion comply with relevant legislation and associated codes of practice.
- Advise and give recommendations to designated persons (DP) before and during their review of applications for authorisation, to aid the effective implementation and their understanding of the application process.
- Identify and acquire communications data from communication service providers (CSPs) to support investigations and crime prevention activity.
- Evaluate acquired data to ensure compliance with the notice/authorisation issued.
- Identify reportable and recordable errors and take appropriate action under codes of practice so that information is accurate and properly supports crime prevention activities
- Engage proactively with the investigator or analyst, using your policing background and expert knowledge to assist investigators by using meaningful and effective tactics to exploit communications data.
- Share knowledge, advice and guidance with the wider organisation, where relevant so that others can benefit, learn, and develop.
- Engage and maintain relationships with CSPs to generate smoother joint working practices, and to allow more efficient and effective transfer of data between organisations.
- Comply with all relevant legislation, such as CPIA, RIPA, DPA, IPA.
- Provide MPS primary support to critical incidents, life at risk, kidnaps, MTFA’s, C3000 and Lambeth SOR deployments
- Successful applicants will be required to undertake an initial CIU training programme, which will include working with different CIU teams, initially including some outside of the SCCT.
- Successful applicants may be required to work on different workstreams within the SCCT according to business need.
Essential Skills and Experience:
- In-depth knowledge of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, Communications Data Codes of Practice, and associated legal frameworks (CPIA, ECHR, Data Protection Act).
- Understanding of communications data acquisition processes and systems, including OPTICA and mapping tools.
- Understanding of disclosure and evidential frameworks including CPIA, ECHR, and Data Protection Act
- Experience applying communications data in serious and complex criminal investigations.
- Ability to critically assess and apply legislative thresholds in complex operational scenarios.
- Proficient in digital data analysis and mapping to derive actionable intelligence.
- Demonstrated ability to work under pressure in high-risk, time-critical situations.
- Experience in handling and securing sensitive digital intelligence for evidential use.
- High attention to detail to ensure legal compliance, data accuracy, and audit traceability.
Qualifications:
- Accredited SPoCs who are up to date with CPD
- You will be provided full training by the dedicated CIU training team. This training will teach you the core foundations of how to use our systems.
Additional Requirements:
- This role is primarily a Monday – Friday role working a mixture of early and late shifts.
- Applicants from policing, intelligence, regulatory, or comparable law enforcement backgrounds are welcome.
- Achieve or maintain Intelligence Professionalisation Programme Certification throughout MO2 tenure.
- Vetting requirement: minimum Security Check (SC) and Management Vetting (MV).
How to apply
To begin your career at the Met, please click the "apply button “. The application process requires a comprehensive CV, a Personal Statement, and an online application form. In your Personal Statement, you should explain your interest in the position and illustrate how your skills and experiences make you a suitable candidate. Please note that you should not submit two copies of your CV and ensure that your documents are saved in either PDF or Word format, clearly labelled as CV and/or Personal Statement.
Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 26 July 2026.
