Surveillance Planning & Briefing Officer - Counter Terrorism Policing

Closing date: 18/01/2026 11:59pm

Salary: £38,169 - £44,700

Grade: 6

Type: Full time

Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) is a collaboration of UK police forces working with the UK intelligence community to help protect the public and our national security by preventing, deterring and investigating terrorist activity.

Counter Terrorism Policing West Midlands (CTP WM) Surveillance department sits within the Pursue section of the 4 P’s. Whether investigating a highly sophisticated international plot, or a lone individual preparing an attack, our teams of professionals are ready to deploy a wide range of skills, including utilising expertise in Surveillance.

We are looking for a staff member to be based in our modern offices near to Birmingham Airport to be responsible for the planning and co-ordination of CT Surveillance assets, ensuring deployments provide the maximum benefit to the investigation.
The core hours of work will be 8am to 4pm and one 10am to 6pm shift per week. You will also be part of a weekend on-call rota (Fri – Sun).

Due to operational reasons, there may be short notice changes to hours and the requirement to work outside of normal office hours, including the possibility of working away from home.

As a Surveillance Planning and Briefing Officer, you’ll be the interface between CTU departments and the Surveillance teams, producing necessary documentation required for deployments. You’ll liaise with Senior Investigating Officers and partners and develop sufficient understanding of the intelligence picture, to ensure the operational briefing document is current and relevant.

Delivering Operational briefings to surveillance operatives, you’ll work alongside the Operational Intelligence Management Unit (OIMU) to assess threat, harm and risk matters, community impact and operational awareness and communicate these in support of the briefing and information sharing protocols.

You’ll be required to evidentially process, list and store all product obtained from the deployment, including summarising material to support the investigation and meet disclosure obligations. You’ll be responsible for proof reading the surveillance record and processing imagery, disseminating material obtained during deployments to support other evidential and identification objectives.

• Liaising with intelligence departments to request, collate and research all documentation required prior to a covert deployment.
• Preparing and delivering operational briefings, ensuring all sensitive information is handled in accordance with Departmental, Force and National Guidelines, including importing images from various overt and covert sources, editing, enhancing and annotating images to populate any operational briefing.
• Reviewing and processing all surveillance evidence produced on a daily basis, ensuring the accuracy and evidential standard as required by the Investigating Officers.
• Proof reading all surveillance logs and viewing records to ensure accuracy and offer surveillance planning advice/comments within the current National Security Surveillance Report (NSSR).
• Viewing and providing first line assessment of all covert imagery obtained during a surveillance deployment.
• Creating accurate records of all accountable evidential surveillance documents within departmental spreadsheets in accordance with national standards. Managing retention and destruction of all surveillance product in line with national guidelines.
• Ensuring all physical exhibits are processed in accordance with national policy.
• Ensuring compliance with Force Policy on Equality and Diversity matters and that all best practices in covert criminal investigations are explored.

• Experience in the production and…