Police Officer as Co-Head of the Violence Protection Department

Leadership: You lead the Violence Protection Department with four divisions and up to 40 employees from various professional groups in a co-leadership. Together with your division heads, you create clear framework conditions, promote good collaboration and specifically develop your employees further. Your department makes an important contribution to the effective prevention of crimes. You are responsible for early detection and risk assessment of persons with an increased risk of violence and offences, targeted interventions with at-risk and endangered persons, as well as threat management. You ensure that the goals of the Cantonal Police and the Main Department of Prevention are jointly supported.

Member of the Main Department of Prevention Management: As a management member of the Main Department of Prevention, you help shape the further development of the main department as well as the newly established Violence Protection Department. You keep an eye on social and security-relevant developments, incorporate different perspectives and think beyond your own area of responsibility.

Consultation and Committee Work: You advise superior authorities on professional and strategic matters and prepare well-founded, comprehensible decision-making bases. Once decisions are made, you ensure their implementation within your area of responsibility and make them understandable for your employees. You participate in cantonal, national and international committees and maintain close cooperation with partner organisations.

Operational and Project Management: You take over the leadership of police operations with up to 1000 personnel. This includes planned events such as demonstrations and major events as well as unplanned events where you assume leadership ad hoc. Additionally, you lead projects in your specialist area and accompany them from development to implementation within the organisation. Furthermore, you pass on your experience in training and further education.

Employment Model and Benefits: The Violence Protection Department is led by a co-leadership that equally combines police and forensic-psychological expertise. Both leaders (each 80%-100%) share overall responsibility, contribute their professional focuses and represent each other. We support different life and work models. Flexible working hours, reliable deployment planning and clear agreements create, as far as operational requirements allow, space for family, care, further education or other personal commitments. We offer thorough induction, targeted development opportunities and an appreciative leadership culture where different perspectives are welcome. We especially encourage women to apply – alone or together in a tandem.

Experience: You have already led teams personnel-wise and ensured good collaboration. You have several years of leadership experience in operational police deployment or a comparable function. Experience in leading demanding operations, strategic projects or cooperation with various partner organisations is an advantage.

Personality: You gladly take responsibility, provide orientation and grasp complex contexts with strategic foresight. You shape a culture in which interdisciplinary collaboration can unfold its strengths and promote cooperation between disciplines. Even in crisis situations or before political committees, you appear credible, build trust and involve others in common concerns. Even when encountering people in psychological exceptional states or making professional decisions with great impact on the threat situation, you remain capable of acting, communicate comprehensibly and know your personal limits.

Education: You are a trained police officer with a federal professional certificate. In addition, you have completed police professional and leadership training, for example a CAS in Police Leadership (CAS FIP). Equivalent education and further training as well as relevant leadership experience will be gladly considered.

Language: You express yourself clearly, understandably and appropriately for your counterpart both orally and in writing in German. Knowledge of French and English is an advantage.