ANPR Operator
| Posting date: | 14 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £26,607 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 February 2026 |
| Location: | Washington |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 443550/1 |
Summary
Are you a flexible and confident individual?
If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.
This is an exciting opportunity where you will play a vital role in ensuring that vehicles on our roads comply with legislation. You will also work closely with the Police and other agencies when required.
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
Find out more about what it's like working at DVLA.
An opportunity has arisen for an individual to support our DVLA Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) fleet as an ANPR Operator.
Reporting to the ANPR Team Leader you will operate a fleet of vehicles containing Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras. These are based around the country and capture images of potential unlicensed vehicles and are an integral part of the Agencies commitment to the reduction of Vehicle Excise Duty evasion. Operating hours will be between 6am - 7pm, Monday - Friday.
This role will involve you being fully trained as an ANPR Operator based in Washington. However, there may be the requirement to provide cover based on business need across the ANPR network, therefore we are looking for individuals who are willing to travel on a very regular basis.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
- Driving the ANPR vehicle on a daily basis, ensuring that it is set up in line with prescribed operating and health and safety instructions.
- Contacting the helpdesk with details of location when set up and results when closing down.
- Working in a flexible manner with high level of overnight stays, requiring the Operator to lone work the majority of the time.
- Taking out vehicles which are not situated in their base region.
- Operator’s will be responsible for completing and sending the relevant travel forms in advance to the ANPR helpdesk.
- Ensuring both individual and vehicle accuracy and output performance meet objectives on a daily/weekly and monthly basis.
- Notifying the ANPR helpdesk when there is any issue with either the vehicle or ANPR equipment.
- Working collaboratively with Police forces and local authorities on joint operations.
For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
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