Crime Prevention Tactical Advisor

Role purpose

As a Crime Prevention Tactical Advisor, your role is to help deliver effective crime prevention initiatives. Through structured problem-solving, you will help achieve the key police objectives of minimising crime, disorder and antisocial behaviour. 

Here’s a bit more about what being a Crime Prevention Tactical Advisor involves:

• To support the development and delivery of crime prevention initiatives, you’ll provide direct support to crime reduction plan owners. You will assist and guide them in the application of Scanning, Assessment, Response and Evaluation (SARA) and related problem-solving tools.
• You’ll carrying out research in the Scanning, Analysis and Research phases of SARA, providing information to enable crime reduction plan owners to identify and prioritise issues, identify underlying causes, and to develop appropriate interventions.
• You’ll provide data to quantify the benefits of crime reduction activities and inform force reporting on performance against its Key Performance Indicators.
• You’ll represent the force at external meetings, conferences and events to present and explain relevant crime prevention initiatives. You’ll also be expected to identify information from other organisations that may contribute to force effectiveness in preventing crime.
• You’ll deliver presentations and training within the force to raise awareness of problem-solving tools, crime prevention processes and lessons learned; to promote best practices.
• You’ll be responsible for liaising with colleagues within the force and beyond to share lessons learned and best practices.

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