I applied online. I interviewed at West Yorkshire Police (Dewsbury, England) in Jun 2022
Interview
Standard Interview Process. Met with 2 other officers/leads who offered me a quick show of the office (working area for that department). Quickly moved onto a board room where the interview process commenced.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is your experience in Digital Forensics, did you have any live experience in handling the tools.
I applied online. I interviewed at West Yorkshire Police (Leeds, England)
Interview
Competency based interview questions, approx 6 questions. Usual two interviewers. Very much one way communications and no eye contact as they are taking notes. No rolling feedback like "that's interesting, tell me more." Difficult to answer and score high sticking to just one competency and you must example the obvious.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Give an example of how you have collaborated to solve a problem?
I applied online. I interviewed at West Yorkshire Police (Wakefield, England)
Interview
Difficult scenario/competency based interview alloted 45 minutes followed by a 20 minute technical task. 6 questions in interview, all covering each of WYP's competencies. Panel of two each taking it in turns to ask questions. They provide paper slips of each question should you require it because they sometimes are long questions.
The technical task is an old DVR CCTV workstation that you have to navigate and download a specific requested amount of footage on a specific date and time to a USB stick. You are not told how to use the system and have to find your way round. A facilitator is sat with you the entire time who can't help you or tell you what to do but will nudge you in the right direction if requested.
There is also a paper test in the task which is NOT related to the CCTV workstation which completely threw me. The questions are technically related such as 'name two video/audio codecs' or 'name two lossless image types' and 'why would compression be a problem in CCTV evidence?', etc.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
You have been tasked to retrieve CCTV footage from an urgent crime scene but haven't left the office with your colleague. Major crimes contact you before you leave to advise they need some footage pulling for a press release urgently in the morning.
How do you prioritise and why?
You have arrived at a crime scene to retrieve footage and the owner of the shop is refusing to co-operate. How would you deal with this? What if they still kept refusing?