Enquiry Officer

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As an organisation we have 24 police stations where members of the public can meet and engage with us in person. At each of these we have individuals that offer front‑line support to the people who visit, these are our Enquiry Officers. From the moment the doors open we never know who may come in; it could be someone looking to report the theft of an item, someone reporting a missing person, a victim of online fraud or a person required to present themselves to a police station as part of sentencing conditions.

Our Enquiry Officers also deal with some of the darker aspects of the criminal world such as sexual assault, suspicious activity or hate crimes. What links them all together is the care, compassion and dedication they show to the communities we serve and the individuals who visit us.

• To act as first point of contact to members of the public, visitors to the site, internal staff and external agencies
• Respond to, research and resolve enquiries, face to face, over the phone and online
• Diffuse potentially volatile situations (both verbal and sometimes physical aggression) and escalat for police intervention in emergency situations
• Support vulnerable members of the public, including victims of crime
• Be sensitive to confidentiality and the need to protect individual privacy

You will need to be comfortable with a rapidly changing day, you never know who is going to come through the door next and what help or support they will need. In this role you are the front-facing image of our organisation and so will need to be always professional and calm.

You will need to have good IT skills to be able to search, record and interpret information on a number of computer systems. We will provide you with full training on these systems so after the initial training period you will be able to use these systems on a daily basis.

Our visitors have a wide range of backgrounds; if you speak another language or know sign language this is useful as you may find it comes in handy, it is however not essential.

If you have existing transferable skills from a customer service-based role such as a hotel reception for example this would be a good start, however we will provide full training either way.

In this role you will see people who may tell you things of a sad and distressing nature or could have distrust of the police; you therefore need to be resilient to these situations.

This is such a rewarding job, our Enquiry Office teams can and do change so many outcomes for the better.

The working hours for this vacancy is 14.8 hours per week, working the following days/times:
Thursday and Friday – from 08:00am until 04:00pm.

Interviews will be held week commencing 12th January 2026.