Speed Enforcement Officer (Basildon/Office Based)

Location of Role: Basildon

Advert Closing Date: 03/06/2026

Starting Salary: £27,204.00 (pro-rata for part-time vacancies)

Part/Full Time: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Pattern: Mon-Fri

Weekend/Evening Working: No

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Roads Policing Unit within Operational Policing Command (OPC) as a Speed Enforcement Officer - a role that directly supports safer roads and helps protect our communities.

This is a uniformed post, based at Ely House, Basildon.

Speeding remains one of the key factors behind serious collisions and community concern. Your work will focus on visible, professional roadside enforcement that helps reduce risk on our roads, improves driver behaviour, and reassures the public that concerns are being acted upon.

What you'll be doing:

As a Speed Enforcement Officer, you will play a vital operational role by:

• Conducting roadside speed enforcement activity in line with relevant guidance, ensuring deployments are safe, professional, and intelligence/priority-led where required.
• Producing high-quality evidential material suitable for prosecution, including completing required checks, accurately recording results, and maintaining clear evidential continuity.
• Reviewing video and photographic evidence to confirm it meets the required standard, supporting appropriate outcomes and next steps.
• Acting as a key point of contact for Community Speed Watch schemes across the county - building constructive relationships, offering support, and helping ensure activity is carried out safely and responsibly.

Working with communities:

You’ll also contribute to wider road safety activity, supporting community-led initiatives that form part of the Safer Essex Roads Partnership approach and its Vision Zero strategy (where reducing speeding is one of the protective layers for safer roads).

What we're looking for:

We're looking for someone who is:

• Confident working independently at the roadside, with a calm, professional approach.
• Meticulous with detail, able to produce accurate records and handle evidential material appropriately.
• Comfortable using technology and reviewing footage/images to an agreed standard.
• A strong communicator who can build positive relationships with colleagues and members of the public, including volunteers.
• Committed to safety and compliance when carrying out enforcement activity.

Why this role matters:

This is a role with visible impact - helping to reduce harm on the roads, supporting enforcement outcomes with high-quality evidence, and strengthening community confidence through engagement and partnership working.

Kent Police and Essex Police welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, sex, or employment status.

As a Disability Confident Leader we:

• Have subjected our Disability Confident self-assessment to external challenge and validation.
• Are taking an active leadership role in encouraging and helping other employers on their journey to becoming Disability Confident.

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