Advertised
INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL APPLICANTS
Branch/Division
Public Protection and Serious Crime Division
Leadership Level
Peer Leader
Advertised Salary
£23,100- ££25,353
Shift Allowances/Enhancements/ Additional Info
Shift Allowance
Weekend Enhancements
Enhanced Vetting Required
Advert
Greater Manchester Police is one of the largest police forces in the UK and is responsible for keeping its diverse population of almost 3 million safe, spread over more than 1,200 sq. km. Manchester in particular has been billed as the most diverse city in Europe with its population speaking at least 200 different languages, leading to the city being named as Britain’s “City of languages”. GMP are committed to ensure that the make-up of our workforce is reflective of the communities we serve and we recognise that having a diverse workforce makes us more approachable and relevant to the public.
The Greater Manchester Police Digital Forensic Investigation Unit (DIU) is one of the largest and continuously expanding digital forensics teams in the UK, striving to become a centre of excellence for digital forensics. Recently the unit have secured a significant investment to further expand the team to 72 staff and officers over the next 2 years, with the initial expansion focusing on a number of key roles within the team. This expansion is a genuine acknowledgement of the crucial and valuable contribution that digital forensics brings to the modern day police investigation.
In addition to the expansion in resources the unit has recently re-located along with colleagues from Forensic Services to a purposely designed facility perfectly located on the outer city M60 ring road, with access to all major routes in and out of Manchester.
The expansion includes a complete re-design of the unit structure, incorporating new management, supervisory, team leader and co-ordination related positions. The uplift also includes increases in technical and investigative positions to further enhance the requirement to support front line policing.
The DIU is looking for driven and motivated candidates to continue this journey and help support policing in an ever-changing technological environment.
In this role you will be responsible for extracting evidence from a wide range of digital devices. This includes examination of mobile devices, cloud acquisitions, and the imaging and triaging of computers. The role will also require you to attend and support police officers at crime scenes and house searches to provide technical assistance and on-scene support.
As a member of a dynamic team, you will work closely with others in the unit with different experience and specialisms, and support cutting-edge research and development. You will respond dynamically to different requests and requirements based on risk assessment of cases.
You will use your knowledge with your communication skills to present evidence to police investigators, prosecutors and the courts, explaining digital evidence in a manner that can be understood by a wide range of audiences.
This post is ideal for candidates at a graduate level or those with technical experience looking to enter the digital forensic arena, this role offers potential to develop and progress to both roles in specialist acquisition and other digital investigator posts within the unit.
This post carries 7.5% irregular hours allowance and 5% weekend enhancement.
This is a 12 month Temporary Contract.
Post based in Chadderton.
Other Information
To apply for this role please upload your CV into the Expression of Interest form. Please find attached CV Guidelines and Suggested Template.
Please refer to the attached Job Description for further details regarding the skills required to do this role. The Job Description has been signposted to indicate at which stage of the process each criteria will be tested.
Due to the Equality Act (2010) the criteria surrounding sickness absence will not be checked until the conditional offer stage of the recruitment process, this is after the interview stage of the full recruitment process. With this in mind all candidates need to ensure that they have a good attendance record for the last 2 years for Staff and officers and for 12 months for apprentices.
The Equality Act 2010 makes it unlawful to discriminate against a disabled person in all areas of employment, including recruitment. The Police Service welcomes people with disabilities and will do its best to make reasonable adjustments to the working arrangements and/ or the working environment providing it is possible to do so.
If you have a disability and you require support with your application, please let us know so we can consider and support you with any reasonable adjustments you may require. If you need any support completing this application please contact [email protected] and the recruitment team will be happy to assist.
Should you require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know during the selection process.
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Policing values are enshrined in the Code of Ethics (a copy of which can be found at https://www.college.police.uk/What-we-do/Ethics/Ethics-home/Documents/Code_of_Ethics.pdf Every person serving with the police service needs to adhere to these standards of professional behaviour. As an applicant to Greater Manchester Police, we expect that you will hold views and attitudes in line with the Code; that if you are successful in your application you will uphold the Code of Ethics by displaying the behaviours that the Code sets out; and that you will report any conduct of others that falls short of those standards. Any failure or apparent failure to uphold the Code of Ethics will be taken seriously. It will be looked into and in cases involving serious and/or repeated failings, criminal and/or misconduct proceedings may follow. With that in mind, you are reminded that you must not share any information relating to the recruitment and assessment process. Sharing of such information could result in criminal and/or misconduct proceedings.
To be eligible for appointment as a member of police staff, you must be a British citizen or a citizen of a country that is a member of the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland. Commonwealth citizens and foreign nationals are also eligible but only if they are resident in the UK free of restrictions.
After 30 June 2021, nationals of the EEA or Switzerland will also need to provide evidence that their stay is free from restrictions.
In the context of EEA nationals, we are content that pre-settled status counts as free from restrictions.
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Minimum Age for Applications
18