CCTV Evidence Officer (Ashford)

We are offering an exciting opportunity to join the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate’s Digital Forensics CCTV Unit as a CCTV Evidence Officer. Digital CCTV analysis plays a crucial role in modern criminal investigations and has helped secure outcomes in several high‑profile cases. In this specialist technical role, you will support investigators by recovering, viewing, analysing, processing, and preparing video evidence from sources such as CCTV systems, Body Worn Video, and mobile devices. You will also ensure that all evidential material is handled in accordance with legislation and is suitable for review by the CPS, defence teams, and the courts. On occasion, you may be required to present evidence in court.

Key Responsibilities

• Recover, review, and process recorded digital video evidence.
• Conduct basic editing, decoding, and file preparation for evidential purposes.
• Ensure compliance with evidential rules, legislation, and force policy.
• Produce high‑quality evidential packages suitable for court presentation.
• Work closely with investigators and external agencies, sometimes attending third‑party premises.
• Maintain accurate records and organise workloads with minimal supervision.
• Learn, develop, and apply new digital forensic tools and techniques.

Requirements

• Minimum 2 years’ experience working within the field of CCTV.
• Practical understanding of CCTV systems, video formats, editing, and decoding.
• Strong IT capability, including use of video editing and transcoding software.
• Experience using computer applications for video processing.
• Ability to troubleshoot technical issues effectively.
• Knowledge of legislation relating to evidence handling (e.g., Human Rights Act, Data Protection, PACE).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• High level of accuracy, organisation, and attention to detail.
• Education to A‑Level standard.
• Understanding of ISO 17025 principles.
• Experience within a digital forensics environment.
• Familiarity with video enhancement and advanced digital retrieval techniques.

What we offer

• Opportunities for specialist training and development.
• Experience working within a nationally recognised, high‑performing serious crime directorate.
• A role that directly contributes to major investigations and public safety.

In this role you will be dealing with highly sensitive and potentially distressing case content and imagery for which you will require emotional resilience.

Your application for this role will be shortlisted on the content you provide within the “reason for application” question, within the application form itself. CV’s, covering letters or attachments are not included in the shortlist. Within your “reason for application” answer, please refer to any experience, skills, and abilities you feel you have that will make you suitable for this role, based on the role criteria stated in the job advert or job description. Please provide as much detail as possible as insufficient content may mean you do not meet the shortlisting criteria, however please note this question is limited to 9000 characters.

All of our posts require a level of vetting and security clearance. During the recruitment process you will be sent vetting information forms to complete. Kent Police and Essex Police welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, sex, or employment status. Please let us know if you require extra support at any stage of the application process.

Essex Police is a Disability Confident Leader, we have subjected our Disability Confident self-assessment to external challenge and validation and are taking an active leadership role in encouraging and helping other employers on their journey to becoming Disability Confident. Diversity, Equality and Inclusion are central to the values of our organisation. At Essex Police we value and embrace the unique experiences, identities and abilities that each of us bring to our roles.

Essex Police and Kent Police are an equal opportunities employer.