Safety Camera Operations Viewer
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Job Title: Safety Camera Operations Viewer
Salary: The starting salary is £30,450, which includes allowances totalling £2,841.
The salary is broken down as £27,609 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £29,676. Plus, a location allowance of £1,841 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.
Location: Sidcup
This is an exciting time to be working as Safety Camera Operations Viewer for the Metropolitan Police Service. In addition to large-scale transformation, there's the unique and ever-evolving challenge of policing London. This means that as a Safety Camera Operations Viewer, there are more opportunities for you to get involved with making London the safest global city in a time of unprecedented change within the UK's largest Police Service.
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Safety Camera department works in partnership with Transport for London (TfL) and we are responsible for the enforcement of automated speed and red light offences received from the digital network of automated cameras distributed throughout the network of roads in London. This activity results in police sending a Notice of Intended Prosecution to the registered keeper of a vehicle requesting details of the driver for the alleged offence. The team handle a high volume of offences to manage offending and ensure a suitable outcome. Offences are processed through an adjudication system and drivers identified are offered an appropriate disposal outcome subject to eligibility criteria.
Key Responsibilities
What does the average day look like? Your core duties will include:
- Ensure all Speed and Red-Light related offences received via the digital Safety Camera systems are viewed in accordance with legislation
- Undertake secondary checks on the offences received from the digital network as part of the viewing process
- Undertake Police National Computer (PNC) checks for all Safety Camera Activations and searching PNC to identify the correct vehicle registration
- Ensure all offences are accounted for in accordance with guidelines and procedures
- Complete evidential statements in relation to cases that are being dealt with through the Prosecutions process
- Identify any persistent offenders and ensure all appropriate action is taken
- Attend court and give evidence if or when necessary
- Undertake any other administrative duties as directed
How to apply
Click the apply now button below and start your career at the Met. Applications will be via an online application form.
Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 10th April 2024.
Essential Criteria
- Effective communication skills from face to face, telephone, e-mail, or written enquiries
- Good working knowledge of information technology, including Microsoft Office programs
- Be willing to complete a PNC training course in order to fulfil the role
Desirable Criteria
- An understanding of Safety Camera processes and the underpinning legislation, Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988, and the Road Traffic Act 1988
- Awareness of the Mayors Vision of zero people killed or seriously injured on London’s Roads by 2041
- We are emotionally aware at level 1
- We take ownership at level 1
- We support, deliver and inspire at level 1
- Integrity
- Professionalism
Disability Confident Statement
The Met is committed to being an inclusive employer with a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from ethnic minority groups and females.
As a Disability Confident employer, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations. If you consider yourself to have access, workplace or reasonable adjustment requirements that need to be accommodated, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence and will not affect any recruitment decisions.
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This opportunity is closed to applications.