AFP Reserve

Overview

Our AFP Reserve harnesses the skills, qualifications and experience of our former employees, including police officers, protective service officers, and specialist and support staff.

Our skilled and qualified reserves provide additional capacity to our workforce, are ready to be engaged at short notice and to help us deliver results.

Engaged for short-term periods, reserve’s free up our employees to focus on higher priority or more complex work. They don’t replace the need for recruitment of permanent employees or deprive them of employment or promotion opportunities.

Who should apply

Former AFP employees with policing, protective service officer or specialist and support experience can apply.

If your application is successful, you will be included in our Reserve talent pool. You may be approached to work on a casual short-term basis with one of our business areas. Inclusion in the Reserve pool doesn’t guarantee you a role, as casual employment placement is dependent on our agency’s needs and skills required.

Being a part of the AFP Reserve can help you adjust from working full-time or transitioning to retirement, while continuing to assist us in our efforts to protect Australians and Australia’s interests from serious criminal threats.

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What you’ll do

As a reserve, you’ll have opportunities to support our efforts and will perform a range of duties including, but not limited to:

• Executive support – assist during times of leave to the executive across the agency
• Human Resources – project work assistance and administrative support across various business areas
• Police station support – provide administrative assistance to police officers in the front office of ACT police stations, who are responding to public enquiries. Provide mentorship and support to junior ACT Policing members.
• Investigation support – activities could include digitisation, investigation review, report preparation, evidence collation or brief preparation.
• Training delivery and development – opportunities to conduct training, assess workbooks or develop training. You may need additional qualifications for this role.
• Establishing and refining governance processes – opportunities to review and develop governance for a range of business areas.
• Mentoring and training new employees – provide mentoring to course participants and working alongside externally engaged course administrators.
• Personal security vetting – assist in vetting and updating changes.
• Ceremonial and protocol officer (CAPO) duties – assist at events and programs including funerals, National Police Remembrance Day and anniversaries. Reserves undertaking this role will be sworn in for the purpose of performing these duties only.
• Designated special events support – assist our response to the whole-of-Australian-government national security architecture for major events of national significance.

Benefits and conditions

As a casual employee you will:              

• be paid the Base Salary Hourly Rate plus a casual loading of 20% for each hour worked.
• receive a base salary variance each year in accordance with section 7 of the AFP Enterprise Agreement 2017-2020. Casual employees don’t receive any incremental advancement.
• receive 15.4 per cent superannuation.

Note: Casual employees don’t have access to paid leave entitlements.

For further information in relation to the casual employment terms and conditions refer to Section 12 of the AFP Enterprise Agreement 2017-2020.