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ERSOU / ROCU - Staff / Digital Forensic Examiner - Regional Cyber Crime Unit - Ref: 10912

Employer
Hertfordshire Constabulary
Location
UK
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
12 Jul 2022

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Clearance Level
SC, CTC, None / Undisclosed
Sector
Policing, Counter Terrorism
Job Type
Permanent

Job Details

ABOUT ERSOU

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the role of Digital Forensic Examiner within the Regional Cyber Crime Unit (RCCU). ERSOU RCCU conduct proactive and reactive investigations into serious and complex cyber-crime criminality, which could include both cyber enabled or cyber dependent criminality with significant regional or national impact and/or linked to organised crime as tasked nationally. The Digital Forensic Examiner is key to the investigations, working as the expert in dealing with the digital evidence. This role in line with ISO17025 will provide the expert digital evidence required and key for cyber-crime investigations and will involve working with the relevant Detectives to identify and present the relevant evidence as well as attend crime scenes and warrants as required across the region and occasionally nationally.

THE ROLE

Experience & Qualifications:

Ideally applicants will be experienced digital forensic investigators, however applications from staff with basic experience are welcome, but depending on the level of interest, trained and experienced staff would take precedence at paper sift.

Key Responsibilities:

As a Digital Forensic Examiners, you will be key to investigations, helping to forensically secure and critically analyse data from a range of digital sources to assist in ongoing investigations. Within the role you will also at times be required to assist in the onsite securing of digital evidence. The RCCU operate to ISO17025 standards and applicants will be required to work within the ISO17025 framework and guidelines.

Personal Qualities & Attributes:

As a Digital Forensic Examiners, you will be expected to be able to work both autonomously and as part of a wider team. The successful applicant should have good analytic skills and be a confident problem solver. Working to deadlines and managing workloads is essential to being successful within role.

Hours of work:

This is a permanent role based in a Hertfordshire office. As Bedfordshire Police are the lead Force for ERSOU the successful applicant would be employed by Bedfordshire Police on grade SO1 to PO2 (please refer to pay scale tier within the attached role profile). Normal working hours will be Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm.

Travel commitment:

This is a permanent role based in a Hertfordshire office.

Benefits:
  • In addition to a competitive salary there are many other benefits to being a police staff member including:
  • Access to a gymnasium at some sites
  • Member of the Blue light card scheme where you can get discounts of travel, clothing, food and much more
  • Opportunity to join a great local authority scheme
  • Access to an Employee Assist Programme that provide access to a health & wellbeing provision 24 hours a day 7 days a week

VETTING

Applicants must hold or be prepared to undergo Management Vetting (5 years residency criteria) and Security Clearance (5 years residency criteria) or Development vetting, if applicable, before taking up the post. Please be aware the Police Corporate Vetting Unit will undertake security vetting on successful candidates, their family and others that live at their home address, which will include financial checks. Due to the sensitive nature of these checks, we are not able to supply feedback should clearance be declined.

WHAT TO INCLUDE IN YOUR APPLICATION

If you are successful, you will be joining one of the most accomplished policing collaborations in the UK where ERSOU's values of Courageous, Inclusive and Professional are exhibited daily across the full breadth of capabilities and functions we deliver. In your application we will be looking for written evidence around the following competencies and the entry requirements from the attached role profile:
  • We take ownership
  • We are collaborative
  • We deliver, support, and inspire
  • Entry requirements

(500 words limit applies to each competency)

OPEN TO APPLICANTS FROM

ERSOU celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone is valued and respected. We actively encourage applications from underrepresented or minority groups. ERSOU is a Disability Confident employer. Should you require any reasonable adjustments for your application process, please contact the HR Service Centre on 01438 757777. We also offer the guaranteed interview scheme; this means that all candidates with a disability covered by the Equality Act 2010, who meet the minimum entry requirements for the role, will be invited to attend an interview.

ERSOU supports both agile and flexible working requests where operational possible.

Your personal welfare is very important to us and therefore you may be required to attend regular welfare/ psychological meetings.

If you are an internal applicant working within BCH (Bedfordshire Police, Cambridgeshire Constabulary or Hertfordshire Constabulary), please upload either your CV or a completed internal role summary form. This form can be found in the attached documents. Please note you will still be required to evidence against the competencies listed above and the entry requirements as stipulated in the role profile.

This vacancy is live to those at risk of redundancy and will remain open to redeployees until the conditional offer stage throughout the recruitment process. Any redeployee that wishes to apply should apply through the Redeployment Portal and provide a statement no more than 500 words against the entry requirements only. Please see attached role profile for guidance. Redeployees will take priority over other applicants at any point during the recruitment process up until conditional offer.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

For further information about this role Please email; john.woolcott@beds.police.uk

For mileage from your home address to the working location please contact: ersou.recruitment@herts.pnn.police.uk

Company

Round the clock more than 3,600 police officers and police staff work hard to provide a policing service to the public of Hertfordshire, supported by more than 300 Specials.

Together we look at where we can make the most difference to improving the quality of everyone's lives, and creating a safer Hertfordshire.

In our work we put our communities first - we want to be there when victims need us the most and when criminals don't. But, most importantly, we want people to be safe and feel safe whether they are in their homes, on the streets or at work in our county.

 

Company info
Telephone
01438 757 777
Location
Police Headquarters
Stanborough Road
Welwyn Garden City
Hertfordshire
AL8 6XF
GB

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