Digital Professional

• Use knowledge of various public techniques to find and secure relevant information.
• Have knowledge of internet developments such as LLMs, blockchain, social media platforms, and OSINT.
• Focus on identifying, collecting, interpreting, and analyzing online information.
• Use smart search strategies on current online media to find relevant information and make it available to colleagues.
• Utilize various social media and other internet tools and sources.
• Link online information, explain traces, and translate them into investigative opportunities.
• Document findings in clear reports or official statements.
• Advise colleagues on how to ask further questions during reports to bring out the correct digital and/or online components.
• Research and support colleagues with questions about digital traces.
• Make colleagues more digitally skilled and aware that digital sources can aid an investigation.
• Offer a listening ear and support to colleagues, sometimes also on the street or in public information situations.
• Coach colleagues in digital investigation and advise on investigations.
• Be willing to work irregular hours and/or weekends.

• Initiative-taking and dares to step outside the beaten path.
• Feels at home in the digital world, investigation, and cybercrime.
• Has a fresh, innovative perspective on the digital component within police work.
• Can ask the necessary questions to gather the right digital information and is critical where needed.
• Collaborates well and helps build and shape the digital work area from the core of basic police care.
• Can naturally convey knowledge through presentations and workshops.
• Makes colleagues more digitally skilled and aware of the help from digital sources.
• Possesses coaching skills.
• Innovative, eye for detail, and meticulous, even under time pressure.
• Curious, eager to learn, and keeps professional knowledge up-to-date.

What they ask

• MBO 4 work and thinking level, preferably based on education in IT, social media, and/or cybercrime.
• BOA diploma (or willingness to obtain it).
• Demonstrable experience with IT and affinity with open sources and internet investigations and techniques.
• Knowledge of the English language, both spoken and written.

• This is a temporary position for a maximum of two years, with the expectation that it will become a permanent position within two years.
• The formal function within the police job structure is "senior intake and service".
• A reliability and environmental investigation is part of the selection procedure.
• An assessment and a professional interview are part of the selection procedure.
• An MBO 4 level diploma or equivalent via EVC, or a minimum of two years of work experience at the requested level, is required, demonstrable with formal evidence.