Job Title: Police Staff Comms Data Investigator – SpoC - 01
Salary: The starting salary is £40,519, which includes allowances totalling £3,009.
The salary is broken down as £37,510 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £40,141. Plus, a location allowance of £2,009 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.
Location: Vauxhall
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Economic Crime/Emerging Threats Team within Specialist Crime of the Metropolitan Police.
We are looking for Police Staff Investigators to be a single point of contact between law enforcement and communication service providers, to obtain communications data under the Investigatory Powers Act (2016) and to be the guardian and gatekeeper of applications under part 3 of the investigatory powers act
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 and guidance to police officers around the practical use of Communications Data to help them deal with both fast time incidents and reactive investigations.
- Help explain the world of digital investigation to colleagues who often have little practical experience of how to obtain it or use in policing.
- 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
- Comply with all relevant legislation, such as CPIA, DPA, IPA.
Who we're looking for:
- Knowledge of relevant legislation such as CPIA, DPIA, IPA
- Practical experience of criminal investigations and policing
- An understanding of how digital intelligence can support policing
- Experience in effectively and professionally dealing with external partners and internal stakeholders regardless of rank
- Calm under pressure, hardworking, professional and resilient.
- Communications Data SPoC qualified
- Competent in using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) and police digital systems (e.g. CONNECT, IIP) following training.
- No formal experience is required, although if you have knowledge of communications data, it would be useful
- No formal qualifications required. Full training will be provided by the CIU training team. You will be required to attend a national accreditation course run by the college of policing. This is a mandatory course that you must complete before you can fulfil the role.
