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Information Services Business Analyst | Derbyshire
Working with the Business Engagement Team you'll be making critical decisions & recommendations to meet the needs of the organisation. Taking advantage of technology that will enable the delivery of digital excellent for our force.
Find your place with Derbyshire Constabulary
Join Derbyshire Constabulary and you’ll find a team that pulls together, across departments to protect the people of Derbyshire. Whatever your role, you’ll be working alongside a variety of highly motivated, ambitious and capable people.
What are you looking for today?
Frontline Policing
What's your route in to the force?
Police Constable Degree Holder Entry Programme
As an operational officer you’ll get to learn both 'on the job' and by studying at university over a two-year period, where you’ll be able to gain a Level 6 Graduate Diploma in Professional Policing Practice.
Find out moreDetective Constable Degree Holder Entry Programme
Work on some of society’s most challenging issues including child exploitation, sexual assault and murder. Driven by a personal mission of working to protect the victims of crime from future harm.
Find out morePolice Constable Degree Apprenticeships
Obtain a fully-funded degree while working and earn a salary as a police officer on our three-year Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship (PCDA).
Find out moreInitial Police Learning and Development Programme
A more traditional entry route into policing. A two-year training programme that mixes training school, placement at an allocated station and continuous assessment as you work towards become a police officer.
Find out moreTransferees
Bring your skills to Derbyshire. Policing here is a challenge like no other, and will bring new opportunities for even the most experienced officer. Expand your skills and build an exceptional career here with us.
Find out moreSupporting our frontline
What would you like to do?
Force Control Room
Be a key member of the team that handles the majority of incoming contact for the Constabulary. Providing a first-class service to the public and interacting with a vast array of people.
Find out morePolice Community Support Officers
Tackle crime and anti-social behaviour in your local community. It can be demanding and exciting role. Patrolling, on foot or bicycle, to ensure a highly visible presence on our streets, in all weathers.
Find out moreDetective Staff Investigators
Investigating serious and complex crime, while training to PIP2 level (equivalent to detective constable). You could be dealing with robbery one day, only to be confronted with a potential murder the next.
Find out moreCrime Support
Protect our community - especially the most vulnerable – using the latest equipment and technology, alongside sophisticated working practices and techniques, to investigate and prevent offences.
Find out moreEast Midlands Special Operations Unit
One of the largest collaborative units of its kind in the country. A variety of police officer, specialist and police staff roles deliver specialist capabilities on behalf of the five East Midlands police forces.
Find out moreCriminal Justice
Support the Constabulary’s investigators by undertaking specialist training and joining one of the many teams that help victims and witnesses and bring offenders to justice.
Find out moreEast Midlands Legal Services
Work with the five East Midlands police forces in some of the most interesting areas of the law.
Find out moreSupporting the constabulary
What is your area of expertise?
Business Change and Innovation
Make sure that the Constabulary is ready to meet and tackle the unpredictable policing challenges of the future. Whatever they may be.
Find out moreCommunications and Engagement
Deliver the effective external and internal communications that are critical to effective policing. From appeal to the public for information to keeping our people well-informed and connected.
Find out moreCorporate Services
Provide insignt and analysis on both Constabulary performance and future trends to evaluate, direct and support our strategic direction and operational delivery.
Find out moreData Protection
Make sure that we have the right information available to the right people at the right time, to help with investigations and to support our wider policing priorities.
Find out moreFinance and Business Support
From looking after the Constabulary’s accounts to providing a range of services that keep the organisation running effectively and enable our frontline officers to protect the public.
Find out moreHuman Resources
Ensure that the Constabulary has the right numbers of skilled people to deliver our services. That they are invested in, well-managed and performing to the best of their ability.
Find out moreInformation Services
Make sure the right information is available to the right people at the right time. Keep our systems secure, help with investigations and support wider policing priorities.
Find out moreProfessional Standards
Oversee functions such as vetting, complaints, counter corruption, hearings and learning that may come from misconduct, but also from HMIC inspections, incidents and de-briefs.
Find out morePartnerships, Prevention and Collaboration
Coordinate force-wide activity aimed at providing objective, supportive governance and oversight of the Constabulary’s partnership and collaboration arrangements.
Find out moreVolunteers
What are you looking to do?
Special Constables
Interested in a career with the police? Join as a Special Constabulary and devote some of your free time to helping the local community.
Find out morePolice Support Volunteers
Volunteer and get involved in policing. Work alongside police officers, PCSOs, special constables and police staff to offering support, protecting the public and cutting down crime.
Find out morePolice Cadets
Taking the first step towards a long career in policing. Weekly meetings, social action projects and active involvement in local initiatives will offers a real insight into policing.
Find out moreFocus on ... Police Community Support Officers
Working as a police community support officer (PCSO) involves tackling crime and anti-social behaviour in your local community. It can be demanding, but pretty exciting too, as each day brings new challenges. Your main role will be to patrol, on foot or bicycle, and ensure a highly visible presence on the streets, in all weathers.
One of our key local initiatives is the introduction of our Safer Neighbourhood Teams. Where PCSOs, PCSO supervisors, Digital PSCOs and Neighbourhood Investigation Officers work together to help build good relationships with our communities.
You’ll also work with other organisations, like local councils and housing associations, to tackle issues of concern in the community, with a focus on lower-level crime, disorder and antisocial behaviour. Along the way, you’ll work on projects to address longer-term crime problems, develop relationships with people in the local area and collect information about what’s happening on your patch.
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Derbyshire Constabulary is a very supportive organisation with a family feel to it. The leadership team are open to staff views, encouraging a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
There’s a real sense of family and a feeling of working together as a team for one cause. Derbyshire Constabulary is a supporting employer who recognises hard work.
At Derbyshire Constabulary, everyone is friendly and supportive and genuinely wants to do a good job and serve the public. Without a doubt but it is one of the best forces to work for.
There’s a chance to make good friends. Your team really make the job worth doing, and you occasionally make a difference to people's lives. It can be really exciting at times.
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Derbyshire Constabulary is a great place to work. Friendly professional colleagues working in a progressive organisation at the forefront of modern-day policing.
Policing with Derbyshire Constabulary is a rewarding role with great responsibility. Different career paths allow you to challenge yourself and achieve your best. There’s structure to your career, but definitely not your day.
I worked as a Special Constable with Derbyshire Constabulary and was mentored by the senior Officers. I learnt a lot whilst working there and thoroughly enjoyed the mood and working environment.
Derbyshire Constabulary is very professional, superb and untarnished organisation. Anyone looking to develop life skills and bring their skills should consider them.