NaVCIS Leisure Vehicle Officer_HC620291

Job Title: Leisure Vehicle Officer (LVO)

Salary Range: Scale 6, £32,247-£34,329

Work Location: NaVCIS office at the College of Policing, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Nr. Coventry  

Hours per week: 37 hrs per week; Monday – Friday

Contact Type:  2 year fixed term contract

Closing date:  Sunday 6 April 2025 at 23:59

NaVCIS is looking for an experienced and motivated professional with a strong partnership focus to join us as a Leisure Vehicle Officer (LVO) within a national policing unit.

More about the role

The Leisure Vehicle Officer (LVO) will provide a service to UK Policing through their subject-matter expertise and support operational policing activity through practical application of knowledge and skills.

The LVO will be involved in the investigation of crime, identification of stolen property, seizure of evidence and support a prosecution for example, providing statements and giving evidence at court.  The LVO will deliver work in line with the National Intelligence Model to better understand the crime context and contribute to a problem profile. As an ambassador for NaVCIS, the LVO will lead work to raise awareness of this Serious Acquisitive Crime with police and industry partners, keep abreast of new security and legislative matters, present at conferences, deliver a communications plan including social media. The role will require effective management of records, data and information sharing in line with GDPR.

Role Overview

The LVO will work closely with NaVCIS colleagues to ensure accurate recording of stolen leisure vehicles on the Police National Computer and timely, “found reports”, sharing information with industry partners. Monitoring crime patterns and trends to understand where prevention and enforcement opportunities occur, work with intelligence development officers and analysts and to be able to brief industry at management level and share information publicly to prevent crime and reduce incidents of leisure vehicle owners becoming victims. Actively seek and develop intelligence to better understand the criminality to share with police colleagues in the UK and overseas. Develop relationships across all sectors of the industry to build resilience to the criminality that is often serious and organised acquisitive crime that may also be linked to other criminality.

The LVO will need to be comfortable in a training setting being able to raise awareness of their role and the criminality enhancing capability of police officers and other stakeholders, also speaking at conferences as an ambassador to promote the work of the LVO and NaVCIS.

The LVO will work with police colleagues in a variety of functions including force intelligence bureaux and operationally on the ground providing tactical advice in the planning stage and for example when warrants are being executed and searches are being conducted. 

Supporting prosecutions will be critical to the role, collecting evidence, providing statements, including victim impact statements on behalf of industry and presenting oral evidence in court.

For more information about the role please view the role profile here.

More about Us

The National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service (NaVCIS) is a national police unit, hosted by Hampshire Constabulary but based near Coventry. We work closely with partner agencies across law enforcement and the private sector in order to better understand and mitigate the threats posed by vehicle theft. 

Motor finance fraud and associated offences impacts upon victims and communities, the national economy and demands placed upon law enforcement agencies.  Through effective partnership working NaVCIS seeks to prevent offences of motor finance fraud by our subject matter experts investigating, developing and sharing specialist intelligence to support law enforcement investigations to prevent crime and disrupt organised criminality.

More information about NaVCIS can be found here

What’s on offer?

As NaVCIS is hosted by ACRO/Hampshire Constabulary you will have access to a wide benefits package, including but not limited to:

• A working environment with flexible working hours.
• Family friendly policies supporting those with caring responsibilities
• Generous annual leave entitlement starting at 24 days (pro-rata for part-time workers) in addition to public holidays, rising to 29 after five years’ service.
• Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Retail, holiday and leisure discounts through Hampshire Police Leisure and Sports Club or Blue Light Card
• Employee wellbeing support and access to Employee Assistance Programme
• Staff representation groups and inclusion network

Application and interview

If you’ve never completed a competency-based application or interview before, make sure you read each competency or value in detail, research the STAR (situation, task, action, result) format and use it when giving evidence.  Please note you do not need to add a CV or covering letter, and these documents will not be reviewed when considering your application.

Essential Qualifications

• Educated to QCF Level 3 (five GCSE passes including Maths and English or work experience deemed to have brought the postholder to a comparable level.

• Attainment & maintenance of the IPP (Intelligence Professionalising Programme accreditation)

Essential Experience

• Substantial experience in evidence gathering and intelligence work due to the complex nature and responsibilities of the role.
• An excellent working knowledge of criminal law and the criminal justice system, CPIA, RIPA, CHIS code of practice, covert intelligence and investigation
• The applicant must have knowledge of leisure vehicle identification and a comprehensive working knowledge of CRiS

Desirable Experience

• A working knowledge of vehicle telematics
• Knowledge of Health and Safety legislation / risk assessment
• To have an understanding of leisure vehicle crime reduction

Competencies and Personal Qualities

• We are Emotionally Aware Level 1
• We are collaborative Level 1
• We Deliver, Support and Inspire Level 1
• We Analyse Critically Level 1

For guidance completing our application form, please click here.

Contact details for an informal discussion

To discuss the role in confidence, or for guidance on the recruitment process, please contact Sid via email on Sukhjit.sidhu@navcis.police.uk

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 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.

The Equality Act 2010 allows us to promote equality within Hampshire 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 is available to provide support through the application and assessment process by contacting: positive.action@hampshire.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.

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.