senior intelligence - Open Source Intelligence

What are you going to do?

The police understand intelligence as enriching information that is then used to intelligently manage the operation and to be able to perform meaningful police work. With your knowledge, you collect and analyze data and information that is obtained from open and publicly available sources. In this way, intelligence can be of visible added value during investigations and in tackling safety problems.

With intelligence images you can make ad hoc proactive and/or reactive, requested and unsolicited trends and developments insightful. In this way you contribute to the enforcement, detection and information position of the police.

At operational and tactical level, you ask the right questions, indicate how the Regional Intelligence Organization Service (DRIO) is of significance and actively advise based on our intelligence. You deal with various subjects that transcend individual incidents and that require monitoring, structuring, analysis and interpretation. One day you are busy making a trend analysis. The next day you are making an intelligence report because of a threat.

As a senior, you simultaneously coordinate various files in different cases and projects. You are also partly responsible for the division of work within the work process and you have a coaching role for your colleagues. Of course, you also perform intelligence activities yourself. You know your way around (police) systems and public sources very well. With your persistent curiosity, you try to discover what the bigger picture is and where you can take action. You provide interpretation of information and make connections with other cases in order to advise on a smart and feasible approach in the right context. As a senior intelligence, you do not shy away from this. You build and maintain networks for a joint approach to intelligence activities and make implementation agreements in this that you record in a plan of action.

With a lot of energy, creativity and flexibility you work daily to make safety problems transparent. Furthermore, you contribute to research in which you strive for the best results with your colleagues. Your information gives direction to the actions of the police and contributes to the knowledge of your colleagues.

On-call duties are part of this function. If the work requires it, you are flexible with regard to your working hours.

Where are you going to work?

The Regional Intelligence Organisation East Brabant Service is a dynamic service consisting of more than 200 employees who provide the police organisation and its partners with up-to-date intelligence 24/7. Within the various departments of the DRIO, employees work daily with intelligence from, among other things, our police systems, open sources and based on human sources. Your colleagues from the DRIO work together physically centrally in Eindhoven and also connect decentrally to several places in the unit, close to the operational processes of detection, enforcement and policy-making. The work culture is open, substantively critical and development-oriented.

The DRIO East Brabant will face a challenging development task in the coming years. The police have the ambition to work with state-of-the-art intelligence, which will allow the DRIO to further develop as an intelligence organisation in the coming years. In addition, the East Brabant Unit is also characterised by the Brainport region with a strong focus on high-tech and design. Integral cooperation in the approach to undermining is also characteristic of the unit. This regional context is of great importance for the development direction of the DRIO.

The Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) team is one of the specialist teams of DRIO Oost-Brabant. The team consists of seven dedicated employees and a manager. They have joined forces with the OSINT specialists of the Regional Investigation Service (DRR), under the name Dynamic OSINT Team Oost-Brabant (DOT./OB). In addition to the DOT./OB as a core team, the East Brabant Unit has a flexible OSINT shell, consisting of colleagues within the operational teams who have OSINT as a secondary task, such as digital district officers and digital seniors (for example in an investigation department).

Who are you?

You are broadly oriented towards society and follow developments in society closely. You are curious, analytically strong and you are interested in digital trends. The changing society requires an active learning attitude and flexibility. You feel connected to safety issues and you are focused on connection, innovation and development. You know exactly when it is important to share information and you know how to give meaning to it.

As a senior, you are accountable for the quality of the various safety products. Transferring knowledge to colleagues is no problem for you. Within your field, you know how to work constructively with colleagues and you are a full-fledged sparring partner. You are enterprising, focused on innovation and quickly make connections. You strive for these goals to make DRIO better and smarter. You have strongly developed your communication skills and you make contacts easily. You take initiative yourself and can organize and structure your work well. You are also able to independently maintain your OSINT hardware (laptop/phone/MiFi) and you can (very) well handle OSINT tools offered by the police and the police systems.

In addition, we ask:

• mbo 4 work and thinking level*;
• the ability to find information on the Internet (within the legally established framework) in a creative and persistent manner (open sources/open source use);
• experience in coaching and motivating colleagues;
• affinity with the intelligence profession;
• preferably knowledge of operational police work.

What we offer

The location is Mathildelaan 4 in Eindhoven. There is room for 1 fte. This is a position for 36 hours per week. The team works with a form of self-scheduling. We offer you a great job in which you are challenged to contribute to tackling safety issues.

Depending on your background, you will follow a 14-week training for specific employability (36 hours per week) at the Police Academy, possibly with an additional training program required for the position. During this training(s), you will receive all the salary agreed with you. Positive completion of the mandatory assessment is a condition for starting the training. Completing the training is a requirement to be able to perform this function.  Here you will find all information  regarding the selection procedure, the assessment and the training.

During the internal specific police training you will be temporarily appointed as a civil servant in training. After completing the training we will offer you a temporary appointment, with a trial period of one year. After this trial period a permanent appointment will follow as soon as possible.

Within the police, we invest in your future. We offer extensive development opportunities and an attractive package of employment conditions. Think of:

• a gross monthly salary of at least € 3,052 and a maximum of € 4,735 (scale 8 Bbp) based on a 36-hour working week;
• an Individual Choice Budget (IKB) that consists of two parts:
  • A gross part of 17.86% of your salary. With this budget you can compose a part of your employment conditions yourself. For example, think of paying out your budget, buying vacation hours or development activities such as training.
  • A net share of €377 per year. This budget can be used for sustainability goals, union dues and vitality.
• good pension scheme and paid parental leave ( more information about leave, schemes and options ).

The formal function within the police function structure is  senior intelligence .

Interested?

Call or email Peter Peskens, team leader io (06 - 10 77 33 68,  peter.peskens@politie.nl ) if you want more information about the position.
For questions about the application procedure, call or email Eline van den Brand, recruiter (06 - 18 18 60 69, eline.van.den.brand@politie.nl ).

Please apply no later than May 14, 2025 via the application button.

Acquisition in response to this vacancy is not appreciated.

What else is important

• An OSINT challenge is part of the selection procedure.
• A reliability and environmental assessment is part of the selection procedure.
• A subject-specific assessment is part of the selection procedure.
• You have Dutch nationality (this may also be your second nationality).
• The police work in a changing society in which diverse perspectives are essential for good police work. That is why diversity is of great importance to us. How can we use your knowledge and background for this?

* You have a diploma at MBO 4 level or you are equivalent to this via EVC. Or you have at least two years of demonstrable experience at the required work and thinking level. You must demonstrate this with your CV, supplemented with an official job description, vacancy text or other document in which the required work and thinking level is clearly stated.

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