Firearms Licensing Administration Officer – HIOWC355

Are you looking for a new and exciting role within Firearms Licensing? Your role will be to provide a comprehensive and effective range of administrative functions within the Firearms Licensing Department, ensuring compliance with the relevant legislation, Home Office guidance and force policy, with the primary objective of maintaining public safety.

Key accountabilities include and not limited to:

1. To process, analyse and assess applications for the grant or renewal of shotgun, firearm and explosive certificates, and the variation of firearm certificates, to ensure compliance with all relevant legislation and requirements for application.
2. To interrogate the Police National Computer, Police National Database and other intelligence systems in order to research applications to identify and collate information or material that is relevant to the applicant.
3. To carry out an initial risk assessment of applications for the grant of certificates and forward these to the relevant Firearms Enquiry Officer for further enquiries.
4. When dealing with applications for the renewal of certificates, or grant enquiries returned by the FEO, identify and review all available information relevant to the applicant, in order to risk assess and determine whether the application can be granted (known as “green light”) or requires further action and/or consideration at a higher level.
5. To undertake a range of clerical tasks in connection with the grant, renewal and amendment of firearm, shotgun and explosives certificates.
6. Maintain personal responsibility for complying with Equal Opportunities, Health & Safety, the Force Purpose, Force Policies and Procedures and Data Protection (GDPR), all of which are in accordance with the values of the Code of Ethics.
7. Hold authority delegated by the Chief Officer or Head of Department for the granting or renewal of firearm, shotgun and explosives certificates in cases where the risk assessment shows no managerial decision is required (known as “green lights”).

For further information about the role, please see the attached role profile. 

Benefits of working for Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary

In addition to the competitive salary and highly rewarding career, our benefits include, but are not limited to;

• Competitive pension scheme;
• Generous annual leave allowance;
• Retail, food, and leisure discounts through Hampshire Police Leisure & Sports and Blue Light Card;
• Excellent wellbeing support;
• Gym facilities at a number of our buildings; and
• Fantastic career progression including development and secondment opportunities

Essential Qualifications 

Educated to QCF Level 2 (3 to 5 passes inc English and Maths) OR work experience deemed to have brought the postholder to a comparable level.

Essential Experience

Extensive administration experience working in a customer focussed environment, providing an excellent service.

Application and Interview

If you’ve never completed a competency-based application or interview before, make sure you read each competency or value in detail, research the STAR (situation, task, action, result) format and use it when giving evidence. This candidate guidance for completing an application form will assist you.

Competencies

We are Emotionally Aware – Level 1

We Take Ownership – Level 1

We Collaborate – Level 1

We Support and Inspire – Level 1

We Analyse Critically – Level 1

You should also be aware of the values of Courage, Respect and Empathy, and Public Service.

We recommend that you write your answers in MS Word before copying them into your application, to avoid the system timing out and you losing your progress. Our recruitment system uses a word count for your answer to each competency, but please do not use MS Word as a word count guide – the system will tell you how many words you have typed for each answer.

Contact details for an informal discussion

Please contact the Recruitment Team on police.recruitment@hampshire.police.uk or 023 8045 1611.