ROCU- Digital Media Investigator-Constable Birmingham, England
Job description
Job Title: ROCU Digital Media Investigator-Constable
Rank: Constable
Closing Date: 24/02/23
About the Role:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Digital Media Investigator to join the Regional Economic Crime Unit.
The department is expanding to include a new Development, Assessment and Review Team (DART) that will service the RECU (Regional Economic Crime Unit) and wider ROCU (Regional Organised Crime Unit). A skilled DMI is needed to support this team.
The successful candidate will support on all matters related to communications data, digital forensics, and open source capabilities. They will highlight potential digital opportunities, identify available capabilities, streamline requests, and provide objective based advice. They will also lead on utilising digital opportunities to map the threat of fraud and money launder OCGs. All activity will be driven by the ROCU control strategy and force vision.
There will be opportunities for successful candidates to complete additional training and accreditations to assist the role. A desire to learn and adapt to this area of business, and disseminate your knowledge to others is essential.
Essential criteria:
- Competent investigative skills with a sound understanding of investigative and prosecution processes and presentation of evidence for CPS and court.
- Ability to develop clear, concise and articulate technology and data strategies
- Ability to present, influence and communicate information and rationale clearly to all levels of the organisation (both written and verbal).
- Provide tactical guidance to support planning of strategy for digitally enabled crime to ensure planned actions are proportionate, necessary and lawful.
- Understands legislation in practice to guide the acquisition of Communication Data and other digital media
- Ability to build strong working relationships with other teams and departments e.g. Digital Forensics, CDIU, ROCU, CAB.
- Understand the fundamentals of the internet, networking technologies, conceptsand how cellular networks work
- Ability to plan and prioritise high workloads with the added ability to multi-task multiple inputs from different sources and stakeholders
- Data analysis skills (incl Excel) to provide preliminary information to an investigation
- Access specialist technical support for investigations requiring actions beyond own level of skills, knowledge or authority
Desirable criteria:
- Successful completion of Initial DMI Training Course
- Awareness of digital forensic principles, tools and techniques to ensure devices are appropriately examined and data is not overlooked.
- Trained to a minimum of Level 2 for internet investigations (open source research) and has a good understanding of the other levels and who in force can assist and how and when they can be deployed
- An awareness of Covert tactics to identify opportunities
- Ability to liaise confidently with covert teams and SIOs
- A strong interest in existing and emerging digital technologies and be able to exploit new opportunities and if appropriate, help them to become mainstream investigative techniques.
- An understanding of ANPR, Telematics and CCTV strategies to identify opportunities
Vetting
Successful applicants will be required to pass Management Vetting and Security Clearance scrutiny prior to commencing their role, this will include a full background & financial disclosure as part of the vetting process.
Additional Information:
- The post holder will be required to obtain SC Vetting.
- The hours are predominantly Monday to Friday 8-4, but there may be a requirement to work beyond these core hours.
Contact:
For any wider queries in relation to the role please contact:
DS Jon Green [email protected] 07557 290 772 or
DS Matthew Leach [email protected] 07557 241 383.
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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