Are you ready for a bigger task?

The Police Authority is Sweden's largest authority with approximately 40,000 employees across the country. With us, you have the opportunity to contribute to the Police's mission – to increase safety and reduce crime in society.

The Södermanland Police Area is in the midst of an exciting development effort to strengthen our crime fighting. By increasing our clearance rates for crimes and enhancing the presence of uniformed police in external service, we create a safer everyday life for citizens. Our goal is to integrate the entire investigative mission that the Police has by ensuring that the unbroken chain of reaction remains just that – unbroken.

The Local Police Area of Eskilstuna is part of the Södermanland Police Area. Within the local police area, there are intervention and crime prevention activities, investigation groups, traffic operations, as well as support and service.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Work in the detention center is conducted in collaboration with the police area's other activities. You will handle and meet individuals who have been deprived of their liberty for various reasons. Many are deprived of liberty for the purpose of investigating crimes, but it can also involve shorter detentions due to intoxication. The detention officer is the person with whom the detainee has the closest contact during their stay as a detainee in the detention facility, and the work is conducted under the leadership of a station commander.

Your job responsibilities will include:

• Assisting the intervention operations during reception and searches
• Monitoring and supervision of those in the detention facility
• Administrative tasks, such as documentation regarding the detention, DNA sampling, fingerprinting, and photography, urine sample collection, and database searches
• Taking police reports and documentation in the police's data system
• Participating in transports to court hearings and monitoring assignments at e.g. hospitals

The pace of work varies over time and depends on how many individuals are subject to various types of deprivation of liberty or who visit the reporting reception. The work requires a professional approach and an attitude characterized by respect for everyone's equal value. You must also have good health and physical conditions as the job requires you to act physically at certain times. The work is conducted around the clock, every day of the year, which means irregular working hours and includes day/evening/night as well as weekdays and weekends.

You will undergo an introduction and training to become authorized to work as a detention officer.

QUALIFICATIONS

This is an opportunity for you who have:

• Completed high school education with full grades or equivalent education that the employer assesses as equivalent
• Experience working with individuals in vulnerable situations, from e.g. the Police Authority or Correctional Services, or experience in service work with extensive customer contact in areas that the employer considers relevant for the position
• Good computer skills
• Good ability to express yourself well in speech and writing in Swedish and English
• Driver's license (B)

It is meritorious if you have:

• Completed the Police's detention officer training with a passing result
• Experience working as a detention officer or similar
• Experience in administrative tasks that the employer assesses as relevant

Personal qualities

The job responsibilities require that you have the ability to make responsible and wise individual assessments. The work can at times be stressful and psychologically demanding, which requires that you have achieved personal maturity and can maintain good prioritization skills and act rationally and professionally even under pressure. The work is also physically demanding, which requires that you have good physical condition. We prefer that you are empathetic and understanding, but you should also be able to set boundaries and follow decisions. You have a high sense of service and the ability to create good relationships with both the public and colleagues. It is also important that you are meticulous, flexible, and enjoy working in an environment where multiple tasks are handled simultaneously.

We will place great emphasis on personal qualities.

OTHER

Work location: Eskilstuna
Working hours: Period-planned 5:3. The work is conducted around the clock, every day of the year, which means irregular working hours.
Start date: By agreement

Apply by attaching your CV (we do not want a personal letter) and answering the selection questions. The questions are based on the requirements profile for this recruitment and your answers form the basis for the selection process. It is therefore important that you respond clearly and thoroughly to the questions and do not refer to other documents, e.g., CV. Answering the questions is a prerequisite for your application to be considered complete.

Please note that requirements and any merits must be fulfilled at the time of application.

We use e-recruitment to streamline and ensure the quality of the recruitment process. Applications for this position will only be accepted via the Police's recruitment support Visma Recruit.

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An employment with the Police Authority may begin with a six-month probationary period.

The Police Authority is Sweden's largest authority. We offer you a workplace that stimulates diversity, creativity, and personal development.

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We conduct our operations according to the six principles of the state value base: democracy, legality, objectivity, freedom of opinion, respect, and efficiency and service. As an employee of the police, you are expected to act according to these and contribute to their maintenance. This is a prerequisite for legal security, legal certainty, and for the police's legitimacy in society. As a representative of the police, you respect everyone's equal value and create trust in the police.

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