Job Description

This income supports the Roads and Transport Policing Command operating model and without it would mean the command is not affordable. The income is divided into 5 areas, Filming, Tasking, Abnormal Loads, Serious Collision Investigation Unit and Commercial Vehicle Unit.

The Cost Recovery Team provide the administrative support to deliver against the target.

Key Responsibilities

Serious Collision Investigation Unit – Cost Recovery are solely responsible for dealing with requests from Solicitors and Insurance companies to supply evidential material relating to fatal and serious road traffic collisions, for the purpose of civil litigation.

The post holder must administer the income generation process online and deal with incoming and outgoing post, recording all requests and actions on spreadsheets to show an audit trail.

Documentation must be collected, quoted for, invoiced, and then supplied to interested parties in the required format all within a timely and professional manner.

Abnormal Loads Department – Abnormal loads deal with all notifications that come into the Metropolitan Police for Abnormal loads that wish to travel within the area. Police Escorts will be required at times, and this includes invoicing for the service provided, which Cost Recovery will manage. All the data is added to a costing spreadsheet

Filming – The team are currently processing around 10 Form 236’s per week for the Filming Unit. All contain dates, times and number of officers used for filming. These are processed on the PSOP system. The overtime spent is then collated from these forms to ascertain the recovered costs for each filming request. All the data is added to a costing spreadsheet.

Tasking – The team are currently processing around 30 separate tasking requests per year. Information is received on form 236’s which are processed using the PSOP system. The overtime spent is then collated from these forms to ascertain the actual recovered costs for each tasking request. All the data is added to a costing spreadsheet.

Commercial Vehicle Unit – managing and collating the fees now charged for the remobilization of Lorries in accordance with new regulations. This can mean taking payment direct when needed using the machine that is held with Cost Recovery.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities