The City of London is the historic heart of London packed with history, commercial activity and culture. The City of London has a demographic profile which is not replicated anywhere else: a residential population of around 10,000 and over 550,000 working population arriving in the City daily. In addition, tens of thousands of people cross the City every day and many other thousands visit as tourists.

It has both a rich legacy of historic buildings and a large number of iconic sites including St Paul’s, the Bank of England, the Royal Exchange, and the Gherkin.

The City of London Police is proud to deliver an exceptional service and, year on year, we have risen to this challenge. We are committed to keeping the City safe and protecting the City from the threat of terrorism.

The Vetting Unit is responsible for conducting Police Vetting (PV) and National Security Vetting (NSV) clearances on all police officers, police staff and contractors who work with or for CoLP.

The successful candidate will support the Force’s Vetting Unit ensuring that systems, processes and practices are maintained and supported in accordance with relevant best practice, policy and legislation. Ensuring that individuals working with or for the Force have an acceptable level of integrity so as to guarantee that they do not pose an undue threat to the security of the police, government or sensitive information, systems assets, premises and persons.

In addition, it will be necessary to provide further administrative support to the wider Professional Standards Department in respect of discipline hearings, abnormally high workload or at the direction of the PSD Senior Leadership Team.

Essential Criteria – including the behaviours that will be tested at application/interview: The successful candidate will possess the following skills;

• Excellent IT skills that covers all aspects of the MS Office Suite of Applications
• Excellent interpersonal and verbal communication skills to be able to deal confidently and effectively with people at all levels, establishing a high degree of trust, rapport and cooperation with individuals. They will also demonstrate a high level of tact and be confident and articulate in all communications (verbal, written and face to face) to groups and individuals.
• Proven background of working as part of a small team and delivering work to a high standard.

• The ability to maintain a working knowledge of Human Rights, Equality, Data Protection, Right to Work and other related legislation and guidance.

Types of Qualification(s) needed: No formal qualifications are required but the candidate must have be literate and have an eye for detail as the role involves the quality assuring and inputting of vetting applicants’ forms, writing reports that may be seen at the highest levels of the Force, researching Force and non-Force databases and making decisions on granting clearance or otherwise.

Desirable Criteria:

• Have current or former vetting experience.
• Currently PNC trained.
• Currently PND trained.

• An in depth understanding of police and security vetting and the threats to City of London Police security and integrity.

• A working knowledge of the APP Vetting (May 2021) and HM Government’s Security Policy Framework

• Current UKSV accreditation for the Internet Portal, RLI Portal and Case Management System
• Required to be vetted to MV/SC level.

The application and interview will be tested under Level 1 of the College of Policing Competency and Values Framework.

Applicants who fail to address the skills/knowledge/experience of the job description will not be considered.

Please refer to our website for information on further details https://careers.cityoflondon.police.uk/vacancies

If you would like to discuss the post in more detail, please contact Stuart Phillips, Vetting Manager at stuart.phillips@cityoflondon.police.uk.

The closing date for applications is Wednesday 20^th July 2022.

This vacancy is open only to those who have the right permanently live and work in the UK.

The City of London Police is keen to promote flexible working and will, subject to operational policing requirements, proactively consider all applications to work flexibly.

The City of London Police is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.