Environmental Crime Officer

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Environmental Crime Officer
Watford
£36,457 - £40,197 per annum

About Watford Borough Council

Watford is an urban borough in South West Hertfordshire. The Borough has excellent transport links with mainline rail connections to London. Watford is the centre of a sub-region serving around 500,000 people living within a 20-minute travelling time catchment. As part of the London commuter belt, Watford is strongly influenced by London, which brings the benefits of a buoyant economy.

At a Glance

- £1.4bn local investment happening – mix of public and private funding
- 5 major development and regeneration projects happening
- 3,500 registered businesses
- Higher than average working age population
- Skilled workforce
- Affordable local housing market
- Home to many major international head offices

The Role

The role requires you to work with communities, other departments and agencies within the Borough and across Council boundaries to develop effective ways of tackling environmental crimes and minimise any detrimental effects on residents’ amenity. With the aim to achieve clean and safe streets and gardens by effectively responding to problems such as fly tips, domestic and commercial waste duty of care issues, commercial burning, abandoned vehicles, daytime stray dogs’ provision, along with reporting anti-social behaviour, licensing offences and other issues noted whilst carrying out patrols. Primarily, you will utilise powers under the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environmental Protection Act, along with any other relevant enforcement legislation.

What We Are Looking For

Join our team as an Environmental Crime Officer. We're seeking a candidate who can:

- Plan and balance a reactive caseload alongside ongoing project work and other scheduled proactive and educative work, having regard to the unit plan, the service plan and the Council’s priorities.
- Provide an immediate response to environmental crime emergencies, such as a large, potentially hazardous fly tip, along with responding to requests for stray dogs.
- Undertake frequent site visits and patrols supporting the delivery across the Borough. This will, for example, involve searching through fly tips and accumulations, taking and securing evidence and ensuring accurate records for evidence purposes.
- Establish good working relationships and partnerships with officers within this service, across the Council, customers and other outside organisations (such as Police, Environment Agency and other relevant statutory agencies) and persons in order to properly perform the range of duties.

A full (current) driving licence is therefore essential. It will also involve regular walking patrols around the Borough and enforcement work.

Closing Date: 10th May 2026.

For an informal discussion, please contact Nick Egerton (Environmental Health Manager - Environment) on 01923 278630.

A Basic Disclosure and Barring Service DBS enhanced check (as applicable) will be carried out for this post.

At Watford Borough Council, we consider equality issues alongside other factors when making decisions as an employer of choice. We are committed to ensuring that we have effective policies, strategies, procedures, and processes and that we encourage behaviour which promotes equality, encourages diversity, and contributes to an inclusive organisational culture.