Progression opportunities
Further training and continued professional development opportunities are available during your career.
As an accredited detective you could progress onto other detective roles. Further information about the different specialist teams can be found below.
Paedophile Online Investigation Team
The team investigate those who exploit children via the internet. This includes those responsible for possessing, making or distributing indecent images of children as well as offenders using the internet to groom or incite children to commit sexual acts.
They also work closely with similar units worldwide to locate and identify previously unknown victims of child abuse and exploitation.
Major Crime Department
The department works in partnership with local policing areas and the Crown Prosecution Service to secure the conviction of offenders involved in the most serious and violent crimes including:
- murder
- manslaughter
- stranger rape
- kidnap
- blackmail
Serious and Organised Crime Unit
Protect communities by breaking down organised crime groups who are responsible for serious offences across Kent including those operating across Kent’s borders and further afield.
The unit work with partners and other law enforcement agencies to disrupt and dismantle organised crime groups and strip them of their assets.
Serious Economic Crime Unit
The unit is a multi-discipline team.
Our Fraud Teams work with national and local partners to secure prosecutions against perpetrators of volume fraud, complex fraud and corruption.
The Financial Investigation Unit use powers available to disrupt criminal activity by targeting the proceeds of crime and criminal assets.
The Proactive Money Laundering Team investigate organised crime groups and people involved in money laundering and cash smuggling activities across Kent, including those operating across Kent’s borders and further afield.
Cyber Crime Unit
The team use specialist techniques to proactively identify and investigate digital crimes and disrupt the offenders responsible.
This includes:
- computer dependant crimes - those where computers or other devices are used as a tool to commit crime and cyber enabled crimes
- those committed without devices but where the reach and scale of the crime is changed by the use of technology
Serious Collision Investigation Unit
Investigate and respond to collisions which result in fatal or life threatening injuries as well as other serious collisions where the specialist skills of a collision investigator are required.
Special Branch Investigations Unit
Form part of The National Counter Terrorism Policing Network, Special Branch (SB) works with partner agencies to combat threats to national security.
The Special Branch Investigations Unit deal with prisoners arrested at Kent Ports, as well as investigating organised crime at the frontier, protest investigation and supporting Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE) with specialist capabilities in terrorism and domestic extremism investigations.
Chief Constable's Crime Squad
The Chief Constable’s Crime Squad's core role and responsibility is to reduce the harm caused to our communities or sections of communities in Kent.
The team proactively and reactively investigate crime across the county with particular focus on burglary, aggravated burglary and robbery.
The team aims to achieve positive outcomes for victims seeking to place offenders before the courts so justice can be served.