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Transferee Child Sexual Exploitation Investigator (Detective Constable) DE 26

Location: Force Headquarters

Salary: N/A

Contract: Permanent

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Closing date: 12th October, 2026

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Derbyshire Constabulary are looking for Transferee Detective Constables to join our Child Sexual Exploitation Team Criminal

Join as a dedicated Detective Constable within our Child Sexual Exploitation Department - You’ll work collaboratively as part of a specialist team, conducting high quality investigations to safeguard vulnerable individuals and bring offenders to justice. You must be PIP 2 qualified (or working towards this accreditation) with a strong commitment to teamwork and delivering justice.

What you’ll be doing:

  • You will instigate, plan and conduct enforcement activity to detect and disrupt criminality resulting from intelligence led investigations.
  • You will undertake high quality criminal investigations in relation to child sexual investigations and medium and high risk children of sexual exploitation, disrupting criminal activity and bringing offenders to justice.
  • You will support parallel investigations into missing episodes of children assessed as Med/High risk of sexual exploitation, to identify and pursue any criminality.

For part time hours the salary will be calculated on a pro-rata basis, this is based on the number of hours for the vacancy.

Please ensure you meet the transferee eligibility requirements which are:-

  • Be a member of a Home Office force or Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) or Police Scotland (please note we cannot accept an application to transfer from an officer serving with a non-Home Office police force). 
  • Have a full manual driving licence.
  • Have no outstanding discipline or integrity issues.
  • Be confirmed in rank 

To support you with your application we have provided some application guidance our recruitment process and via the link: Application Guidance (cloud.microsoft)

The deadline for applications is Monday 12th October 2026 at 9:00 am

Working for the constabulary

Policing in Derbyshire takes more than 3,500 people in a wide range of roles. Around half of these are police officers, but we also have a variety of police staff. From police community support officers to police staff and volunteers, we all play an equally important role in protecting the people of Derbyshire.

It’s a vibrant, challenging and rewarding place to work and we’re committed to equality and diversity. We aim to create a constabulary that truly reflects the communities we serve. As part of this, we promote Positive Action. This means when you apply to join us, as well as assessing you on merit, we’ll look at your application according to our need and in line with current legislation to actively encourage a more diverse workforce.