Earning Criteria

• This person is able to: understand the factors that affect victims, witnesses and vulnerable people and how this may impact on their need for support, communicate effectively with victims, witnesses and vulnerable people, provide initial support to victims, witnesses and vulnerable people, assess the needs and wishes of victims, witnesses and the vulnerable for further support
• This person is able to: understand legal and organisational requirements related to handling information and intelligence that can support law enforcement, handle information and intelligence that can support law enforcement
• This person is able to: understand legal and organisational requirements related to responding to incidents, analyse information to plan responses to incidents, provide an initial response to incidents in line with legal and organisational requirements
• This person is able to: understand legal and organisational requirements in relation to police searches, prepare to conduct police searches in line with legal and organisational requirements, conduct police searches of premises, vehicles and outside spaces in line with legal and organisational requirements, conduct police searches of individuals in line with legal and organisational requirements
• This person is able to: understand the principles of interviewing victims and witnesses, plan and prepare interviews with victims and witnesses, conduct interviews with victims and witnesses, evaluate interviews with victims and witnesses and carry out post-interview procedures
• This person is able to: Understand the requirements for using police powers when dealing with suspects, arrest and detain suspects in line with legal and organisational requirements and timescales, report suspects in line with legal and organisational requirements and timescales, apply alternative options with regard to disposal of suspects, in line with legal and organisational requirements
• This person is able to: understand the legal and organisational requirements related to managing conflict, apply conflict management techniques, apply personal safety techniques with issued equipment
• This person is able to: understand the legal and organisational requirements in relation to conducting priority and volume investigations, understand the process for conducting priority and volume investigations, understand the nature of crime and its impact upon the community, conduct priority and volume investigations, document information relating to priority and volume investigations, in line with legal and organizational requirements
• This person is able to: understand the principles of interviewing suspects, prepare for interviews with suspects, conduct an interview with a suspect, evaluate interviews with suspects and carry out post-interview procedures
• This person is able to: understand an evidence-based preventative policing approach, develop a preventative policing approach in a given situation, develop plans to support preventative policing approaches, implement preventative policing plans, review preventative policing approaches adopted
• This qualification is regulated by OFQUAL