Detective Superintendent - Investigations; substantive and promotion) x ; CTPSE

Detective Superintendent
- Investigations (substantive and on promotion) x 2 (CTPSE)

Department Investigations

Location Newbury

Rank/Grade Detective Superintendent

N/A

Part/Full Time Full Time
- All roles are available for flexible working including job sharing and part-time unless there are legitimate operational / business reasons why this cannot be accommodated

We welcome applications from substantive Detective Superintendents and substantive Detective Chief Inspectors supported for promotion, for the role of Detective Superintendent within CTPSE Investigations.

This is an exciting opportunity to join Counter Terrorism Policing South East, to lead a unique and specialist capability, leading on the response to significant and complex investigations and incidents, protecting local communities across the South East and beyond through collaborative working with key partners, and management of threat, risk and harm.

The role will also undertake the role of PIP4 ‘strategic investigator’, in addition to being the SIO for significant and / or complex investigations when required. For this reason, it is essential that applicants are accredited to PIP Level 3, and desirable that they are accredited to PIP Level 4. The successful candidates will need to secure PIP Level 4 at the earliest opportunity.

You will also be responsible for leading and motivating staff, setting a culture that motivates, encourages inclusion and celebrates success.

We are looking for officers with excellent communication skills, with experience of building and maintaining relationships with various strategic and tactical partners and experience of negotiating and influencing with others in a collaborative context.

On this occasion we are seeking to recruit two Detective Superintendents. Both should have experience in the command of complex investigations, and we are looking for at least one of the two successful candidates to have experience of managing Counter Terrorism investigations. Other relevant investigation command experience would include Major Crime, Kidnap, Counter Terrorism, or covert policing environment.

Please note that this role is part of a national, regional and local network and as a result you may be required to travel for business purposes mainly across the South East region and London, and sometimes throughout the UK. Therefore, the successful candidate will require a full UK driving licence.

You will be also be required to perform on-call arrangements to support matters across the South East and beyond.

Due to the nature of our work, security is of paramount importance to us and therefore it will be necessary for both successful candidates to obtain and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) and Managed Vetting (MV), together with a number of enhanced security checks. In order to achieve this, you must be a British National and have resided in the UK for the past ten years.

Exemptions may apply for overseas or other diplomatic service (with HM Government), and studying abroad.

Due to operational requirements we will require that one of the successful candidates already holds DV vetting.

You can find more information about security vetting here .

Further Information

The following information briefing will be held to give more information about the role and give attendees the opportunity to ask questions:

• 28th September 2026
• 15th October 2026

This information session will be in person at the CTPSE Headquarters in the Thames Valley Police area.

Substantive Officers and those Officers applying for Promotion
. If you wish to apply you need to have support from your Head of Command / Department.

• Hampshire officers need to complete an AD277b alongside their application. This form is not available on the force’s standard forms…