Police Staff jobs

PCSOs

Police Community Support Officers provide a visible uniformed presence in the community, helping the police to tackle anti-social behaviour and offer reassurance to the public.

Forensics Investigations

Staff within Forensic Investigations use the latest scientific techniques and specialist technical skills to investigate crime and provide forensic evidence to support police investigations.

Contact Centre

Our Contact Centre team handle all emergency (999) calls as well as 101 non-emergency calls, emails online crime reports and also deal with social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Contact Centre Officers create incident reports and compile and update crime reports from members of the public and Police Officers, conducting an initial investigation based upon the details provided.

People Services

People Services supports front-line policing by making the best use of our people resources, providing professional guidance and expertise on HR and Learning and Development matters.

Corporate Communications

Corporate Communications produce accessible and timely communications via a range of channels to support the Force’s strategic priorities.

Intelligence and Analysis

This team focuses on providing high quality, relevant and actionable research and analysis support to enable informed decision making and resource deployment to be made.

Finance and Services

This department is responsible for the preparation and control of the Force’s revenue and capital budgets and includes areas such as procurement, supplies and accounting.

Digital, Data and Technology (DDAT)

DDAT are responsible for maintaining our communications systems, applications and networks.

Designated Detention Officers (DDOs)

Detention Officers perform an essential role in the investigation of crime, ensuring that custody processes are beyond reproach. DDOs are responsible for all aspects of detainee care, including security, supervising exercises, facilitating legal visits and providing medication and other entitlements as required by legislation.

Specialist Crime

Specialist Crime utilises covert and overt investigation teams and specialists from Major Crime Team (MCT), Serious Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), Economic Crime Unit (ECU) and Cyber Crime Unit (CCU) to target and disrupt those involved with serious, complex and organised criminality. The command also provides Crime Support and Crime Review team to provide timely advice and guidance for investigations.

Criteria

All employees of Surrey Police are vetted to varying degrees:

• Police Officers
• Police Staff
• Specials
• Volunteers
• Temporary Staff (including Angels)
• Contractors

 

Vetting is just one part of the application process to join Surrey Police as an employee. One part of vetting is the Authentication process.

You must be able to satisfy the following:

• Identity
• Nationality
• Employment eligibility (right to work in the UK)
• Residency qualification

 

The residency qualification means that you must have a 3 year ‘checkable history’ in the UK – ideally this means that you would have been resident in the UK for the last 3 years. If we cannot check, then we cannot vet. There are two examples of when we can waive this rule:

• Where the person has been employed abroad by the British Forces
• Where the person has been employed abroad on official duty of Her Majesty’s Government

 

The different levels of vetting depend upon your job role and what kind of access you are likely to have to our assets, which consist of:

• Buildings
• People
• Information
• IT systems

Vetting Levels

Recruitment Vetting (RV) – applies to all Police Officers, Police Staff, Police Community Support Officers (PCSO) and Special Constables. This is the minimum requirement at the start of your career.

It is a requirement of RV that a Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) is carried out. This is renewable every 10 years.

For specified roles (officers & staff), applicants will be required to provide fingerprint and DNA samples by consent. A speculative search against local and national databases will take place prior to appointment and any offer of employment will be conditional upon the results meeting the required vetting standard.

Non Police Personnel Vetting (NPPV) applies to Contractors and there are three different levels, dependant upon the job role and how much access to our assets you are likely to have.

Subject Access (Data Protection Act) Disclosure

If you have previously requested one of these (they cost £10 and detail if you have any recorded convictions or cautions), please don’t rely on the information you have received when completing the caution and conviction declaration on your vetting form. The national systems searched by the Vetting Team may show other incidents that for various reasons prevent them being disclosed to you under Data Protection legislation.

It cannot be stressed highly enough that honesty is the best policy when completing your vetting forms. Absolute honesty is required and deceit at any stage of the process may have an adverse impact on your application.

Do not attempt to hide or withhold any information. Lying on your application / vetting form, concealing the truth or deliberately withholding information is a very serious matter and a lot of people are rejected at the vetting stage for this reason. If in any doubt, declare the incident and do not be persuaded by any other party to do otherwise.

You will be required to declare:

• Your previous names and any alias names that you have used
• Your address history for the last 5 years
• Your partner and their address history for the last 5 years
• Your parents and your partner’s parents
• Your full, half & step siblings
• Your children (if aged over 10)
• All co-residents at your current address (lodgers, other family etc)
• If you have any cautions or convictions
• If you have ever been arrested
• If you have been involved in an investigation
• If you have any criminal associates and if so, their details

 

If there is a reason that the Vetting Unit need to explore further, then you may be invited to a vetting interview. A degree of sensitivity will be used – this is not an interrogation!

It is the job of the Vetting Unit to display unswerving neutrality and to establish a rapport with you. The purpose of the interview is for you to give a confidential, detailed explanation of an incident or scenario that the Vetting Officer has decided they need to explore further before a decision can be made. 

Family/ Associates with a criminal history

Some of your declared family members may have links to criminality. If this is the case, the Vetting Manager will conduct a risk assessment to quantify:

• How you are linked to them?
• What are the type of offences they may have committed?
• How often and under what circumstances do you see them?
• The risk they may pose to you, as an employee of Surrey Police.

 

The main reasons why people fail the vetting process:

• Non declaration of cautions or convictions – lying or concealing the truth or deliberately withholding information.
• If you have a Caution or Conviction in the last 5 years. This will include a Penalty Notice for Disorder, a Reprimand, a Warning or a Final Warning. This rule will apply unless you are able to give evidence of any exceptionally compelling circumstances.
• Finances - If you have a County Court Judgment, an Individual Voluntary Arrangement, are currently declared Bankrupt or you are subject to a Debt Relief Order. There are no exceptions here.

 

Having a historic Caution or Conviction (particularly if it was when you were a Juvenile), may not necessarily bar you from appointment. Each vetting case will be examined upon its own merits. Points to be considered would generally include your age at the time of the offence, if you ever had repeated offending and the length of time passed since the offence was committed.

Your vetting...

... will be rejected if you have ever been convicted for any of the following offences, at any age (life ban):

• Treason
• Murder
• Rape
• Kidnap
• Incest
• Buggery
• Hostage taking
• Firearms offences
• Racially motivated / homophobic offences
• Domestic violence offences
• Death by reckless driving, or
• You have ever been sentenced to imprisonment for more than 10 years.

 

...would normally be rejected (unless there are exceptionally compelling circumstances) If you have committed:

• A violence related offence (Grevious Bodily Harm (GBH) or Actual Bodily Harm (ABH)
• Possession of fi rearms or offensive weapons
• Going equipped to steal
• An offence under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 – being sentenced up to 10 years imprisonment
• A sexual offence with a child under 18
• Gross indecency
• Acts in which indecency was involved
• Abuse or neglect of children
• A public order offence
• A dishonesty related offence – theft, fraud, deception, burglary
• Interference of the Administration of Justice
• Involvement in Class A drugs, or more than one occasion of Class B drugs
• Supplying drugs of any kind
• Reckless or dangerous driving in the last 10 years
• An offence of drink driving or drug driving in the last 10 years
• More than one time of drink / drug driving or being drunk in charge of a vehicle

 

If you have been cautioned or convicted within the last 5 years of:

• Driving with no insurance
• Failing to stop after an accident
• Driving whilst disqualified
• Receiving more than three endorsable traffic convictions, including fixed penalty notices (speeding, contravening a red traffic light etc)
• 2 or more regulatory offences (no vehicle excise licence etc)

Prison Sentences

Any person who has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment (custodial, suspended or deferred) will be rejected at the vetting stage. If you need any further guidance please call the Recruitment Team on 01273 014444 or email [email protected].

 

UK Policing has a Code of Ethics. Every day officers and staff make critical judgements and decisions and they do so using this Code which covers our professional standards, principles and the way we make our decisions. The 3 principles of the Code of Ethics are:

• Courage – making, communicating and being accountable for decisions, and standing against anything that could bring our profession into disrepute.
• Respect and empathy – encouraging, listening to and understanding the views of others, and seeking to recognise and respond to the physical, mental and emotional challenges that we and other people may face.
• Public service – working in the public interest, fostering public trust and confidence, and taking pride in providing an excellent service to the public.

 Find out more about the Code of Ethics.

To join Surrey Police in any role you will need to prove your right to work in the UK.

Do I have right to work in the UK?

Your right to work in the UK depends on your immigration status - this is also called your ‘leave’. If you don’t have the right to work, you might be able to apply for it.

You automatically have the right to work in the UK if:

• You’re a British or Irish citizen
• You have pre-settled or settled status from the EU Settlement Scheme - or you’ve applied and you’re waiting for a decision
• You have a family permit from the EU Settlement Scheme
• You have indefinite leave to enter or remain in the UK
• You have right of abode in the UK

You might have a right to work in the UK if you have a visa with a time limit. This is called having 'limited leave to enter or remain’. 

If you entered the UK illegally or your leave has ended, you don’t have the right to work in the UK.

 

Proving your right to work in the UK

You might be able to prove your right to work online or by showing your employer certain documents. Any document you show your employer must be:

• Valid - you can’t use a document that’s expired unless it’s a British or Irish passport
• The original document - you can’t use a copy, however you can use a replacement birth certificate if you have lost the original.
• If your document is expiring soon and you’ve applied to extend your leave, you can still prove your right to work. You might need to use a different document or ask your employer to contact the Home Office Employer Checking Service (ECS) - it depends what kind of leave you have.

For further information about Right to work in the UK, please refer to the GOV.UK webpages.