MPS - Digital Forensic Specialist

London. It's one of the world's biggest, most vibrant and most complex cities. Home to around 8.3 million people and covering 620 square miles, it presents a unique and ever-evolving policing challenge.

Rising to this challenge is the MPS. We're made up of 53,000 people, including 30,000 police officers. Join them and you'll also work alongside 13,000 police staff, over 2,500 police community support officers and 5,000 special constables - all making a lasting contribution to the lives of Londoners.

Few careers offer the chance to improve the lives of so many people. Yet to do so, it's critical that our workforce understands and reflects the diversity of individuals across London's communities. That's why we're always looking to recruit the right people from every background and walk of life.

Policing London calls for an enormous amount of flexibility and a commitment to manage change. However, at the core of everything we do is a steadfast commitment to something we call Total Policing.

The idea of Total Policing is simple. It's about waging a total war on crime and doing all we can, legally and ethically, to stop it. It's about having a total duty of care to the victims of crime - making sure they're treated sensitively and as individuals. And it's about working with total professionalism, maintaining the highest standards in everything we do, no matter how challenging.

Our Digital and Electronics Forensic Service (DEFS) carries out the majority of the forensic examinations of digital media, devices and systems for the Metropolitan Police Service. It also conducts Research and Development relating to the forensic examination of new electronic devices and systems. As a Digital Forensic Specialist, you?ll operate in a rapidly changing and highly challenging forensic environment, accessing and extracting data from a variety of devices, including smart phones and hard drives. It?s a varied and fascinating role, based in a bespoke laboratory ? and you?ll be working on some high-profile cases.

Day-to-day, you will devise novel methods of access and extracting digital data from electronic devices and systems. You will also work on reverse engineering data structures contained within the memories of electronic devices and develop software tools to parse data from raw binary files. In short, you?ll be providing an advanced forensic service to police across the UK ? accessing data using advanced techniques; writing statements; and acting as an expert witness. There will also be the chance to research new technologies.

This role is part of an exciting project within DEFS that?s partially funded by the Home Office. Its goal is to develop advanced examination techniques for mobile devices and other embedded systems and provide an advanced Digital Forensics Service to the Metropolitan Police and Police forces across the UK.

You'll be expected to make an impact from day one. That means you must have a degree in Electronics or Computer Science (or equivalent experience); experience of developing innovative solutions for accessing and extracting data from digital devices; and experience of reverse engineering (using hex editing tools, logic analysers etc). Knowledge of data and file systems at byte-level is essential, along with a creative mind, good analytical skills and a flair for solving problems.