South Yorkshire Police
Investigations Officer
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Role: Investigations Officers (Operation Beaconport)
District/Department: Crimes Services
Location: Europa View, Sheffield
Salary: £32,613 - £37,020
Hours: 37
Contract Type: Temporary for 12 months.
Role Purpose:
Investigation Officers for Operation Beaconport, investigations selected nationally for further review into group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse between 2010-2025.
Key responsibilities:
- Liaise and work with other investigators, specialists, and managers to establish and use appropriate methods for gathering material and to develop procedures to turn material into intelligence or evidence as part of the investigation into serious and complex investigations.
- Collect and gather material, intelligence and evidence from a range of sources that are appropriate to the serious and complex nature of the investigation, record and retain evidence in a format that is evidentially admissible to support the investigative process.
- Identify and plan own investigative actions, taking into account resources, priorities, and proportionality to achieve investigatory objectives.
- Assess threat, harm, and risk in order to develop and implement plans and strategies to investigate serious and complex crime.
- Interview witnesses and suspects and gather all required information, intelligence, and evidence in relation to serious and complex investigations in accordance with PIP2 investigative standards also generating further lines of enquiry where required to bring offenders to justice.
- Undertake associated search and custody procedures to protect and safeguard the public in accordance with legislation and policy.
- Provide appropriate support for victims during an investigation, completing risk assessments, and formulating a victim strategy where required, and working with the Victim Care Unit, to ensure the safety and wellbeing of the victim.
- Carry out analysis, assess evidence, and evaluate material generated by the investigation of serious and complex crimes to identify offenders.
- Ensure all material, including exhibits generated by serious and complex crime are seized, examined, and retained in accordance with legislation and policy, where necessary.
- Respond to safeguarding concerns and manage risk in cases, including but not limited to; child neglect, child abuse, and child sexual abuse, offences against vulnerable adults, domestic abuse, and sexual offences to protect the most vulnerable people in society.
- Prepare reports on the outcome of investigations and build and manage case files and conduct disclosure within best practice procedures to ensure there is an accurate audit trail.
Skills and experience:
- Must be over 18.
- Must hold a full manual driving licence.
- Must be able to physically undertake personal safety training.
- Successfully passed National Investigator Exam
- Undertake PIP 2 investigator learning and development to achieve Professional Investigation Programme (PIP) 2 Investigator accreditation.
- Demonstrable experience of complex information gathering and problem solving.
- A detailed understanding of the criminal justice system.
- Good communication skills with the ability to listen, empathise, provide support, and adapt language, form, and message to meet the needs of different people / audiences.
- Skilled in the use of IT packages, systems, and/or databases to fulfill 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 plan own work and plan ahead, as well as identify and mitigate risks to delivery.
- 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.
- As part of this role the wearing of Personal Issue Body Armour will be required on some occasions.
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Permanent Investigation Officers (PIP2) may be moved to a different role/location at the need of the organisation.
Skills and experience as documented in the role profile need to be evidenced in your application to be considered for interview.
For more detailed information relating to the role, skills, and experience for this role, please click here [https://www.southyorkshire.police.uk/SysSiteAssets/media/downloads/south-yorkshire/careers/talent-acquisition-team-documents/role-profiles/investigation-officer-pip2-2026.docx?_t_id=uEBmHikZgoLbSYh4nQQa9g%3d%3d&_t_uuid=3DSeKqK1Q0KK5L3mlC88PA&_t_q=role+profiles&_t_tags=siteid%3a9a7e26e6-9ba2-42bf-80ec-103507e5aec9%2clanguage%3aen%2candquerymatch&_t_hit.id=Cds_Soh_Web_Models_Media_GenericMedia/_e09a9d43-391c-428f-bb9b-f7f30343bd5c_en-GB&_t_hit.pos=2] to view the role profile.
What we offer:
We offer generous entitlements and supportive policies to enable a better work-life balance, some of which are listed below:
- A highly competitive salary and access to a generous pension scheme
- Generous annual leave allowance
- A wide range of family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
- Flexible working arrangements including flexitime and hybrid working.
- A transparent and collaborative team culture underpinned by our core values of Fairness, Integrity & Trust
- Comprehensive range of development and leadership courses to develop your career with South Yorkshire Police
- Employee Assistant Programme (accessible 24/7) offering confidential support and advice.
- Flexible lifestyle benefits such as: Blue Light Card, Company Shop, Cycle to work scheme.
- Committed to embedding sustainability: South Yorkshire Police Sustainability Strategy 2020-2025 (yhrn.police)
- Membership to the Sports and Social Club
- Access to a wide range of staff support groups and networks
Eligibility:
Applicants must meet the minimum requirement checkable history criteria, which must be taken into account for individuals applying to work with South Yorkshire Police in any capacity. A minimum checkable history of 5 years is required for this role and successfully undergoing recruitment vetting procedure is a pre-requisite of employment with South Yorkshire Police.
Appearance & Standards:
South Yorkshire Police is committed to striking a proportionate balance between self-expression and the need to maintain role sensitive professional standards in dress and appearance. Officers, staff, and volunteers of South Yorkshire Police are permitted to have tattoos visible whilst on duty provided the tattoo is not considered to be unacceptable or otherwise inappropriate. Tattoos will be reviewed as part of the recruitment and selection process.
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South Yorkshire Police’s overarching aim is to deliver an excellent police service to support safer communities. The public’s assessment of our excellence is influenced by the level of trust and confidence in us, as an organisation and as individuals. In comparison to the general public, police officers and police staff are held to a higher standard of behaviour and accountability. In applying to join the police, applicants are accepting of these higher standards and understand the implications on their right to privacy.
South Yorkshire Police’s Key Values:
At South Yorkshire Police we have 3 key values which run through everything we do Fairness, Integrity & Trust, the attached document details the key behaviours we expect all employees to adhere to.
Smarter ways of Working:
South Yorkshire Police is committed to developing working practices which assist staff to balance their personal and professional lives, whilst meeting the needs of the organisation. This in turn enables SYP to provide an outstanding service to the community.
There are 3 different categories as part of this which are: Fixed, Field and Hybrid.
This role has been evaluated as a Fixed role.
Fixed: This is a traditional arrangement, applicable when the work is mostly required to be undertaken at a fixed single place of work (on police premises) for most of the time. The work can only or is more effectively delivered from a police premises or other agreed organisational/partner premises.
Contact details:
For further information about the role, please email DCI Tom Woodward at Thomas.Woodward@southyorkshire.police.uk
Closing Date: 30 September 2026.
Closing dates are not normally extended, other than in exceptional circumstances and agreement is made between the Recruitment Manager and the Line Manager for the role.
Candidate Information:
Please note that, should you be successful at the interview stage and before appointment, the relevant pre-employment checks are required. These include references, medical clearance, vetting clearance, and sickness absence criteria check.
Diversity & Inclusion:
Applications are particularly welcome from female and ethnic minority candidates.
It is really important to us that the department represents the community we serve, in order for us to provide the best service, utilising a range of backgrounds, experience and skills. We support and value all officers and staff and the unique experiences they bring to the role. We strongly encourage and welcome applications from these valuable, underrepresented groups.
If you are from an underrepresented group and want to find out more about the support we can offer, please contact our dedicated team on positiveaction@southyorks.pnn.police.uk
In addition, we will look to support anyone who requires Part Time/Job share working hours.
Internal Candidates:
You must apply through the internal jobs board.
This vacancy is temporary; therefore, you must have the support of your current Line Manager to apply. If you are a permanent member of staff
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