Key Responsibilities:

• Supervise investigations
• Ability to uphold professional standards of behaviour, acting honestly and ethically, and challenges unprofessional conduct or discriminatory behaviour.
• Able to communicate clearly and concisely in any given situation.
• Able to work effectively in a close working team environment to achieve shared objectives, demonstrating awareness of individual differences and providing support as required.
• Able to manage resources and performance effectively.
• Evaluate threat and risk to public safety when policing and communicate with other police officers to ensure prompt action to risk where appropriate and within tactics and plans. 
• Able to deliver intelligence briefings, taskings and debriefings
• Manage flow of intelligence into County Lines Taskforce
• Ability to clearly present the unit’s performance against the allocated metrics

Essential Skills

• Ability to demonstrate leadership skills within the role of a Sergeant.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely to all levels, written and verbally in any given situation.
• Works in partnership with other agencies to deliver the best possible overall service to the public.
• Ability to manage and prioritise multiple tasks.
• Understanding of the use of police intelligence
• Knowledge and experience of supervising investigations requiring telecommunications data as evidence
• Ability to problem solve and make decisions in line with the National Decision Making Model (NDM) and the THRIVE + risk assessment framework.
• Able to understand and apply general policing legislation.
• To undertake any training commensurate with the role.

Desirable Attributes:

• Proactive approach supervising the investigation crime
• Proven experience of working collaboratively with other departments and agencies.
• Knowledge, understanding and experience of applying for and obtaining search warrants. 
• Awareness of the appropriate legislating to obtain warrants.
• Experience in the use of covert tactics

For Police Sergeants, the opportunity to become ISDP accredited will be available and encouraged.

We will be running a discovery day on Wednesday 12th May via Skype for anyone who wishes to speak to the current team.

Join Skype Meeting or join by phone 0121 626 6040 conference ID 33137016.

West Midlands Police are currently undertaking a long term review of staff pay and conditions.  The grade, pay and other terms of employment are therefore subject to review and may change in the future. 

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 Guaranteed Interview Scheme - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be guaranteed an interview.

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