Police Staff Investigator

?????

Our mission is simple… to help the world Love Mondays.

Every week, thousands of people across the UK start a new job – and it’s our job to help them get there.

REED is a specialist provider of permanent, contract, temporary and outsourced recruitment solutions.

We are recruiting for an experienced former police detective to support a local police force on an ongoing police operation.

This role is based in Netley, Hampshire.

As an accredited PIP1 or PIP 2 Police Staff Investigator, you will utilise a range of appropriate investigative approaches to gather material, placing the victim at the centre of all actions and decisions, to safely and effectively investigate serious and complex crimes with a view to achieving an appropriate outcome for that investigation.

Key Responsibilities include (not exhaustive)

• Liaise and work with other investigators, specialists and managers to establish and use appropriate methods for gathering material and to develop procedures to turn material into intelligence or evidence as part of the investigation into serious and complex investigations.
• Collect and gather material, intelligence and evidence from a range of sources that are appropriate to the serious and complex nature of the investigation, record and retain evidence in a format that is evidentially admissible to support the investigative process.
• Identify and plan own investigative actions, taking into account resources at force, regional or national levels including other agencies, priorities, and proportionality to achieve investigatory objectives.
• Assess threat, harm and risk in order to develop and implement plans and strategies to investigate serious and complex crime.
• Interview witnesses and suspects and gather all required information, intelligence and evidence in relation to serious and complex investigations in accordance with PIP investigative standards also generating further lines of enquiry where required to bring offenders to justice.

Essential requirements

• Professionalising Investigations Programme (PIP) 1 or 2 accredited
• Experience of conducting police or criminal investigations within the last 5 years
• Experience of using HOLMES
• Experience of crown court cases and trials

This is temporary role is for an initial 5-6 months, working full-time, paying an initial £15.96 ph PAYE (PIP1) or £17.58 per hour PAYE (PIP2). Hybrid working arrangements are in place for this role.

Please apply now and join us in loving Mondays!

All roles are subject to strict police vetting and right to work checks.

18% of the business is owned by the Reed Foundation, which supports good causes around the world. Set up by Sir Alec Reed in 1985, it’s the driving force behind all of REED’s philanthropic activities.