Digital Forensics Practitioner

Help bring criminals to justice by revealing the digital evidence that reveals the truth.

As a Digital Forensic Practitioner, you make use of forensic tools and applications to identify and recover evidence.

You’ll be extracting evidence from various digital devices from mobile phones to hard drives, helping to support the prosecution of suspects and offenders, but may also prove a person innocent.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Conducting advanced investigations and interpretation of data recovered from digital devices
• Provide help and advice to all frontline officers and staff on the safe seizure and handling of digital evidence
• Produce comprehensive reports of the examination and statements for courts detailing evidence and intelligence recovered

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills and ability to deliver information to a wide variety of people
• Able to use your own initiative to plan and organise workloads
• Experience of using a logical, rational and lateral approach to problem solving

Occasional evening and weekend working on a rota basis may be required. Appropriate allowances will apply.

Benefits

At Derbyshire Constabulary, we want to create an environment that puts people first, so you feel supported in everything you do. We have a range of reward and benefits available to all our employees.

We value diversity and inclusion and encourage applications from underrepresented and neurodiverse backgrounds, so that we can truly reflect the communities that we serve in.

Vacancy closes: 26 July 2026 at 23:55