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SalaryThe Home Office is here to make our country safer. As well as working to protect the most vulnerable, reduce crime and enforce the law, we work to and have a proud history of providing refuge to those who have been displaced or are seeking asylum. Whether it is fighting crime, protecting our borders, or combating slavery, the Home Office is at the cutting edge of public policy in this country and our work is some of the most challenging and rewarding in government.
About the Public Safety Group:
The Public Safety Group’s role is to keep the public safe by protecting the vulnerable, cutting crime, disrupting the highest harm criminals, and ensuring that our police, fire, and rescue services are as trusted, efficient, and effective as they can be in delivering front line public services.
The people in our Group develop and implement policy, provide funding, and deliver legislation. We make the most of innovation, data, and partnerships to protect the vulnerable, prevent crime, and tackle the highest harm crimes. We work with our partners in law enforcement, establishing governance arrangements at a national, regional, and local level.
This role sits within the Police Strategy and Reform Unit, which is part of the Policing Policy Directorate, within the Public Safety Group. The Unit is responsible for:
- Overarching strategy and reform: Setting the overall strategic direction for policing with the sector, delivering the Government’s commitments on police reform via the National Policing Board’s work programme and spotting and gripping policing related risks and opportunities.
- Governance, accountability, and scrutiny: Developing the role of police and crime commissioners (PCCs), policy responsibility for police and crime panels and inspection via His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS), as well helping to drive system improvement on performance. It also acts as a key interlocutor with chief constables, police and crime commissioners and other key policing stakeholders.
- Mayoral Devolution and Policing Structures: Supporting delivery of the Government's Levelling Up agenda by leading on the policing governance elements of English devolution plus policy on policing structures issues and neighbourhood policing.
As an Senior Policy Advisor for HMICFRS Police Inspection Policy, you will act as the Senior Policy lead on force performance issues. You will help the department to properly respond to HMICFRS’ reports on force and system performance, and to support forces in HMICFRS’ enhanced monitoring programme, known as ‘Engage’.
This role offers great exposure to Ministers and senior policing stakeholders. It requires cross-Home Office working to support other policy teams and close working with colleagues in the Inspectorate and in police forces across England and Wales.
Part time working is available in this role but candidates must be able to work a minimum 30 hours over 5 days per week.
