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Job Title: Police Staff Investigator PIP Lvl 1 STO- (Amberstone)
Location:Northern Amberstone
Contract: Permanent
Hours:37 hours per week
Closing Date:Tuesday 2nd Sept 2025 at 23:59 hours
**This is open to existing Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary employees only***
There is an opportunity for a Sexual Offences Investigation Trained Officer (SOIT) to join Amberstone. This was formerly known as the STO role.
This is a challenging, yet incredibly rewarding role, offering you the chance to be the difference to protect all victims of rape and sexual violence.
The SOIT is responsible for acting as an early responder to allegations of rape, working alongside a PIP2 investigator to gather evidence and information from the victim in a manner that contributes to the investigation, preserves its integrity, and secures their confidence and trust.
Accountabilities include but are not limited to:
1. Collect and gather material, intelligence and evidence from a range of sources (including volume and priority crime reports, victims, witnesses, suspects and other sources of material) and record and retain it in a format that is evidentially admissible to support the investigative process.
2. Identify and plan own investigative actions, taking into account resources, priorities, and proportionality in order to pursue all reasonable lines of enquiry whether they point towards or away from a suspect to achieve investigatory objectives.
3. Interview witnesses and suspects, applying appropriate interviewing principles and techniques to gather all required information, intelligence and evidence within the criminal law and the legal framework to help bring offenders to justice.
4. Use relevant powers, applying the “arrest necessity” test to consider arresting, apprehending where necessary, issuing special warnings and other options such as ‘Released Under Investigation’.
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1. To be aligned to one of the three Amberstone teams located within the three Police Investigation Centres. Southampton/Portsmouth/Basingstoke)
2. Hours of duty to align with team duty pattern shift pattern – (08.00hrs – 22.00hrs). There may be a requirement to work outside of these hours and out of County as operational demand dictates.
3. To be PIP1 accredited and possess a minimum of 1 years investigative experience or provide evidence to support this.
4. To project a professional image when conducting office/outside enquiries, smart plain clothes are to be worn. When involved in operational enquiries dress shall be plain clothes to align with the enforcement actions being undertaken.
5. Hold a current authorisation to drive Police vehicles.
6. To be licensed to Police/Practice.
PSIs are required to wear the prescribed PSI uniform unless otherwise authorised by an Inspector for a specific purpose.
Competent Investigator PIP1 Officers must have completed the Tier 2 or Tier 3 interview accreditation process or be prepared to carry out this process.
Officers must have completed the STO course or be prepared to attend this or equivalent course.
Demonstrable experience of complex information gathering and
problem solving.
A detailed understanding of the criminal justice system.
Knowledge and understanding of applicable College Guidance.
Cont....
Good communication skills with the ability to listen,
empathise, provide support and adapt language, form, and message to
meet the needs of different people and/or audiences.
Skilled in the use of use IT packages, systems and/or databases to
fulfil role requirements.
Able to break down a complex problem into component parts and
determine appropriate action in investigations.
Ability to work effectively in a team to achieve shared objectives,
demonstrating awareness of individual differences and providing
support and advice as required.
Able to review own performance objectively and to develop and follow
an appropriate improvement plan.
Able to appropriately prioritise and plan own work.
Able to proactively develop effective working relationships with
colleagues, partners and other stakeholders.
Able to produce clear and concise reports and other documents within best practice procedures.
Due to not being a specialist role, an EOI is requested.
Please note: Our recruitment system uses a character count for your answer on each competency-based question. If you answer a question and the system states too many characters have been used, please use this online calculator to help reduce the characters and to ensure your answer will fit. In addition to letters, our system considers spaces, bullet points and other symbols (.”@) as characters. The character calculator can be found via this link: Character count (successfactors.com)
Please do not use MS Word as a character count guide as it does not use HTML like our online system does.
Contact details for an informal discussion
For an informal discussion regarding the role please contact:
Please note that the email address you supply when submitting an application will be used for contact throughout the full lifecycle of that vacancy. You will not be able to amend your contact details. You should therefore ensure that you choose an appropriately accessible email address, being mindful that the process may take several months for some roles.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary is an inclusive employer and strives to have a workforce representative of the communities we police and serve. We recognise that we are not fully representative and are working to address this imbalance through a variety of initiatives.
Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary is an equal opportunities employer that positively promotes flexible working, enabling officers and staff to achieve a healthy work-life balance whilst meeting operational requirements of the constabulary. We actively encourage applications to be made on a full time, part time or flexible working basis.
The Equality Act 2010 allows us to promote equality within Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary by adopting Positive Action to support people from under-represented groups. Our aim is to recruit talented people with a diverse range of skills and experience and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our Positive Action team are available to provide support through the application and assessment process by contacting: positive.action@hampshire.pnn.police.uk
The Disability Confident campaign aims to remove barriers, increase understanding and ensure that people have opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations. We will accommodate requests for reasonable adjustments where possible throughout our recruitment and promotions processes and encourage anyone requiring reasonable adjustments to disclose this at the earliest opportunity.
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