Director - Policing Policy
| Posting date: | 19 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £97,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2024 |
| Location: | Manchester |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 350321/2 |
Summary
To deliver on our mission we operate locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. We fund the work of a wide range of front-line agencies and are committed to supporting innovation and good practice sharing across the systems we lead. We are also delivering the Emergency Services Mobile Communication Programme - a major national IT programme to improve communications between police, fire and ambulance services.
This role reports to the Director General for Public Safety and is one of six policy Director roles within the Group. The post holder will have responsibility for the Policing Policy Directorate which consists of five units and will provide system leadership across the 43 police forces in England and Wales. The Public Safety Group is a very busy, mission-focused, collaborative and stimulating team in which to work.
The Director for Policing Policy has overall responsibility for advising the Home Secretary and Ministers about policy and policy delivery with regard to the police in England and Wales. The successful candidate will lead a team of c.110 staff across five units in this high-profile Directorate.
Your key role is to provide fantastic leadership to the policing system as a whole. To do this you will need to develop strong working relationships with Chief Constables and other policing leaders, support and challenge them, and be a trusted and known presence in the policing system. You will also work collaboratively with colleagues across the Public Safety Group, Home Office and partners in the wider criminal justice system.
You will also be expected to:
- Hold oversight and responsibility for the governance, accountability and structures of policing, including the role of Police and Crime Commissioners.
- Ensure the police have the powers and tools they need, including to effectively respond to protests, and that they are used proportionately and appropriately.
- Support long-term workforce reform and improve leadership, diversity, skills and professionalism across the police, as well as ensuring the wellbeing of the workforce through the Police Covenant; enable Ministers to make the necessary decisions on police pay and pensions, and manage annual pensions expenditure.
- Take forward the next steps of the Home Office’s review of investigatory arrangements which follow police use of force and police driving related incidents, including publishing a White Paper by the end of May and relevant legislative measures.
- Complete reform of the police conduct system to make it more targeted and effective; handle the Government response to current serious misconduct cases and issues of public concern including Hillsborough, and act as a core participant in the Undercover Policing Inquiry.
- Lead the Government’s relationship with the independent inspectorate (HMICFRS), the College of Policing, the Independent Office for Police Conduct; the National Police Chiefs’ Council; the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners; and staff associations.
- Following successful recruitment of 20,000 additional police officers through the Police Uplift Programme, lead work to maintain officer numbers and embed the legacy and learning from Uplift in policing.
- Oversee the Emergency Response Team, which provides a single information picture and assurance for the Department, Ministers and senior leaders, for all significant emergency incidents impacting upon Public Safety Group areas as well as overseeing preparedness.