Description
Are you a current or former Police Officer looking for a new challenge, or considering a return to policing?
British Transport Police (BTP) is recruiting PIP 2 qualified Detective Constables to join our Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in London.
As a Detective Constable with BTP, you will investigate serious and complex crimes across Britain's railway network, protecting passengers, supporting victims, pursuing offenders and helping to keep the country moving safely.
Our CID officers conduct proactive and reactive investigations into crimes committed across the rail network, ensuring that all available evidence is secured and that investigations are completed to the highest professional standards.
Responsibilities include:
- Investigating serious violence, robbery, county lines activity, sexual offences, fraud, safeguarding investigations, and organised criminality affecting the rail network
- Providing support, reassurance and updates to victims and witnesses throughout the investigative process
We offer:
- Flexible working arrangements wherever operationally possible
- A strong focus on wellbeing, mental health support and inclusive leadership
- Opportunities to develop specialist skills and experience
- Diverse career pathways across a national police force
- Family-friendly policies that recognise life beyond work
- The opportunity to police a unique and challenging environment
Salary: Pay point matched to current or previous police salary (subject to verification and force policy), plus London Weighting Allowance and London Allowance
Eligibility Requirements:
- Be a current or former officer from a Home Office Police Force, Police Scotland or the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)
- Be substantive in rank and have successfully completed probation (Transferees)
- Have previously been substantive in rank and be applying within five years of leaving policing (Re-Joiners)
- Have lived in the UK for the previous three consecutive years
- Not be subject to a live misconduct sanction or performance process
- Not be under investigation by another police force
- Not have active County Court Judgments (CCJs), unmanaged Individual Voluntary Arrangements (IVAs) or be bankrupt
- Not have been dismissed from a police force
- Not have been refused police vetting by BTP or another UK police force within the previous two years
- Be a PIP 2 qualified Detective at the point of application