DVI Senior Identification Manager (SIM)

Senior Identification Managers (SIM) develop and implement strategies in victim recovery, mortuary, casualty bureau, family liaison and reconciliation as a response to a Mass fatality incident.

• Develop and manage the victim recovery process at the scene of mass fatality incident, or appoint a Scene Evidence Recovery Manager (SERM), in order to ensure the preservation and security of the scene, the continuity of the identification process and to achieve investigative priorities and objectives.
• Develop and coordinate the establishment, coordination and decommissioning of a resilience mortuary in response to a mass fatality incident, or appoint a Police Mortuary Operations Coordinator (PMOC), in order to ensure the continuity of the identification process and to achieve investigative priorities and objectives.
• Develop and manage the overall management of the Casualty Bureau process in response to a mass fatality incident, or appoint a Casualty Bureau Manager, in order to ensure the continuity of the identification process and to achieve investigative priorities and objectives.
• Develop, manage and coordinate the Family Liaison strategy, consulting with the Senior Investigating Officer (SIO), in response to a mass fatality incident, or appoint a Family Liaison Coordinator (FLC), to ensure deceased victims’ families are given an appropriate level of guidance and support, and to achieve investigative priorities and objectives.
• Develop and coordinate the reconciliation process of mass fatality incident, or appoint a Reconciliation Coordinator, to ensure ante mortem and post mortem data is gathered and compared in line with recognised international standards for consideration by the Identification Commission.
• Engage and liaise with the Coroner, Gold Command, Strategic Coordination Group (SCG) and Mass Fatality Coordination Group (MFCG) to establish lines of communication and to achieve investigative priorities and objectives.
• Act in adherence to all legal frameworks, key working principles, policies and guidance relevant to the role.

Prior education and experience:

• Serving Police Officer of Detective Chief Inspector rank or above
• Completed College of Policing Senior Identification Manager course

Skills:

• Able to plan to short and medium-term cycles, to coordinate a range of activities appropriately within the function, to match these to available resources, and to identify and mitigate known risks to delivery.
• Able to develop and implement an effective stakeholder relationship plan which develops trusts and enables contributions.
• Able to engage a variety of audiences through a range of media to inform and/or persuade.
• Able to develop and motivate a diverse team and create strong engagement of individuals with their personal and team objectives and with Force values, behaviours and strategic priorities.
• Skilled in setting, monitoring and enabling high performance against team and individual performance objectives.
• Able to identify potential applications of new or improved practices related to own area of work to improve ways of working.
• Able to contribute to resource planning, to manage financial budgets and utilise commercial acumen to make risk-based decisions that deliver effective outcomes within the resources allocated.
• Able to seek out and identify a range of information to identify patterns, trends and options, to solve multifaceted and complex problems.
• Skilled in coaching and mentoring to enable appropriate career and professional development.
• Able to lead the delivery of change initiatives within a complex team.
• Able to maintain personal resilience and wellbeing in challenging situations and enable others to develop their own personal resilience and wellbeing.

• Maintain knowledge and understanding of Police Regulations and College of Policing guidance, best practice and any local policy applicable to the operational police context and leading and managing teams.
• Maintain and update key knowledge, understanding and skills relating to legislation policy and practice across all functional policing areas of operational responsibility.
• Maintain knowledge and understanding of new approaches identified by evidence based policing research and problem solving and team working and synthesise these into working practice.
• Maintain a working knowledge and understanding of new and evolving crime threats and priorities; and current best practice to tackle these in order to enable a pro-active and preventative approach.
• Complete all applicable annual and mandatory training.
• Maintain knowledge and understanding of performance management and assessment process and ensure they are implemented effectively when leading and managing teams.
• Keep up to date with guidance and best practice on health, safety and welfare.
• Ensure knowledge and application of operational command responsibilities, including authorisation of legislative powers follows current best practice.
• Keep up to date with the policing evidence base and new approaches to evidence based policing.

Not applicable.

• DVI Senior Identification Manager (Inc. the roles of Ante & Post Mortem Coordinators & Reconciliation Coordinator) 444 v2