West Midlands Police
Surveillance Planning & Briefing Officer - Counter Terrorism Policing
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Closing date: 18/01/2026 11:59pm
Salary: £38,169 - £44,700
Grade: 6
Type: Full time
Counter Terrorism Policing [https://www.counterterrorism.police.uk/] (CTP) is a collaboration of UK police forces working with the UK intelligence community to help protect the public and our national security by preventing, deterring and investigating terrorist activity.
The Counter Terrorism Policing West Midlands [https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/police-forces/west-midlands-police/areas/about-us/about-us/counter-terrorism/](CTP WM) Surveillance department sits within the Pursue section of the 4 P’s. Whether investigating a highly sophisticated international plot, or a lone individual preparing an attack, our teams of professionals are ready to deploy a wide range of skills, including utilising expertise in Surveillance.
We are looking for a staff member to be based in our modern offices near to Birmingham Airport to be responsible for the planning and co-ordination of CT Surveillance assets, ensuring deployments provide the maximum benefit to the investigation. The core hours of work will be 8am to 4pm and one 10am to 6pm shift per week. You will also be part of a weekend on-call rota (Fri – Sun).
Due to operational reasons, there may be short notice changes to hours and the requirement to work outside of normal office hours, including the possibility of working away from home.
The role
As a Surveillance Planning and Briefing Officer, you’ll be the interface between CTU departments and the Surveillance teams, producing necessary documentation required for deployments. You’ll liaise with Senior Investigating Officers and partners and develop sufficient understanding of the intelligence picture, to ensure the operational briefing document is current and relevant.
Delivering Operational briefings to surveillance operatives, you’ll work alongside the Operational Intelligence Management Unit (OIMU) to assess threat, harm and risk matters, community impact and operational awareness and communicate these in support of the briefing and information sharing protocols.
You’ll be required to evidentially process, list and store all product obtained from the deployment, including summarising material to support the investigation and meet disclosure obligations. You’ll be responsible for proof reading the surveillance record and processing imagery, disseminating material obtained during deployments to support other evidential and identification objectives.
Responsibilities
- Liaising with intelligence departments to request, collate and research all documentation required prior to a covert deployment.
- Preparing and delivering operational briefings, ensuring all sensitive information is handled in accordance with Departmental, Force and National Guidelines, including importing images from various overt and covert sources, editing, enhancing and annotating images to populate any operational briefing.
- Reviewing and processing all surveillance evidence produced on a daily basis, ensuring the accuracy and evidential standard as required by the Investigating Officers.
- Proof reading all surveillance logs and viewing records to ensure accuracy and offer surveillance planning advice/comments within the current National Security Surveillance Report (NSSR).
- Viewing and providing first line assessment of all covert imagery obtained during a surveillance deployment.
- Creating accurate records of all accountable evidential surveillance documents within departmental spreadsheets in accordance with national standards. Managing retention and destruction of all surveillance product in line with national guidelines.
- Ensuring all physical exhibits are processed in accordance with national policy.
- Ensuring compliance with Force Policy on Equality and Diversity matters and that all best practices in covert criminal investigations are explored.
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Skills and competencies
Essential
- Experience in the production and delivery of briefings, at a variety of levels.
- Ability to condense, analyse and select relevant information from a large amount of research material.
- Proven negotiation and communication skills to be able to converse with and brief officers/staff of all ranks.
- IT skills including using PowerPoint, Excel and Word and the ability to adapt to various software packages.
- Ability to prioritise, manage competing demands and respond effectively to workstreams with a quick turnaround.
- Working on own initiative, demonstrating the ability to meet deadlines.
- Experience in working with intelligence with the ability to recognise sensitive information and always maintain discretion and confidentiality.
- Possess a high degree of commitment, dedication and flexibility.
- Hold a full UK driving licence.
Desirable
- Previous experience of working within covert investigations, including where surveillance has been utilised.
- Investigatory experience.
- Experience or working knowledge of Exhibits and/or Disclosure.
- Knowledge of current developments / advancements in surveillance technology and techniques.
Security Clearance
⚠ This role requires British Nationality (some dual nationalities may be ineligible) and a Developed Vetting [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels#developed-vetting-dv] clearance.
You will need to undergo additional security clearance checks, with the offer of employment being conditional on obtaining all of the necessary security clearances.
There are limitations on travelling to a small number of countries once in post.
Diversity and Inclusion
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Diversity and Inclusion Vision: “Maximise the potential of people from all backgrounds through a culture of fairness and inclusion to deliver the best service for our communities, whilst protecting them from harm”
We are 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 "Disability Confident Interview Scheme" - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be offered an interview.
It is important to note that there may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people who meet the essential criteria for the job. For example, in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. In these circumstances, the employer could select the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job, as they would do for non-disabled applicants.
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We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if the maximum volume of applications has been reached. Candidates with unsubmitted applications will not be informed prior to the advert closing.
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Counter Terrorism Policing is a collaboration of UK police forces working with the UK intelligence community to help protect the public and our national security by preventing, deterring and investigating terrorist activity.
Join Counter Terrorism Policing West Midlands CTU for a unique opportunity to play your part in keeping the West Midlands region safe. Every day offers a variety of exciting challenges and exceptional opportunities played out on a national and international stage.
Most of what we achieve may never see the light of day but be assured that we have the very best and brightest working around the clock in an effort to keep us all safe. These ordinary men and women do extraordinary things in an effort to thwart terrorist planning; to safeguard those who are at risk of radicalisation; to protect our critical national infrastructure, institutions and crowded places, and to pursue and bring terrorists to justice.
Our Counter Terrorism Unit aims to create an inclusive and welcoming environment where all our people feel a strong sense of belonging and are able to reach their full potential. With a range of roles available, you don’t need a background in security and we are always looking for different skills and experiences to join our talented team.
Work with us and you will be joining a world-class Counter Terrorism Policing network.
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