Role:
Salary: Band 6, £29,055 – £31,296 per annum
Location: Sunderland based
Hours/Contract: Fixed-Term/Secondment for 12 months.
Working for: North East Regional Organised Crime Unit (NEROCU)
The North East Regional Organised Crime Unit is one of ten Regional Organised Crime Units (“ROCU”) in England and Wales who lead the regional response to tackling serious and organised crime whilst supporting local and national delivery. The ROCU network continues to expand and Home Office funding through police officer uplift and increased police staff capacity presents exciting opportunities to further enhance service delivery and positively impact on our partners and the public. The Home Office Serious and Organised Crime Strategy defines ROCU as leading the regional fight against Serious and Organised Crime and NEROCU have a critical role in leading, connecting and co-ordinating delivery across our region in all four P’s of the strategy; Pursue – prosecuting and disrupting people engaged in serious and organised criminality. Prevent – preventing people from engaging in serious and organised criminality. Protect – increasing protection against organised crime. Prepare – reducing the impact of serious and organised crime where it takes place. NEROCU comprises of specialist teams delivering across intelligence, operations, investigations, cyber, economic, technical and digital capabilities.
The role
Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our NEROCU Department as a Intelligence Development Officer.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in support of MARSOC, the Multi Agency Response to Serious Organised Crime (SOC), a HMPPS led cross-government programme to identify and disrupt the highest-harm SOC nominals who remain criminally active, in prison or whilst under probation supervision.
MARSOC affords the ability to work collaboratively in support of the multi-agency delivery of identifying, assessing and tackling threat, harm and risk posed by those in prison or under community supervision in the North East region. This role presents an opportunity to hold a pivotal role in the research and assessment of intelligence on such individuals working towards further disrupting them and their enablers and facilitators.
The role includes the preparation, presentation and discussion of information and findings in an appropriate format e.g. intelligence products, reports, charts, data visualisation, infographics and maps for investigative and at times, evidential use, summarising clearly, concisely and accurately key research findings. Such will be used to establish and identify conventional and non-conventional methods, to disrupt and dismantle, SOC related activities.
There will be a requirement to monitor, evaluate and review the information for its reliability and validity, establishing and assessing impact and identifying opportunities to manage and respond, whilst ensuring such is delivered, in a correct and timely manner utilising suitable Intelligence dissemination methods and/or GDPR.
There is also the opportunity to work with and alongside the regional prison intelligence unit at NEROCU.
What you’ll do
1. Research and Assess : Conduct intelligence research on high-threat individuals and problems, identifying intelligence gaps and setting requirements.
2. Gather and Analyse: Collect, analyse, and de-conflict intelligence, creating case files and subject profiles, and providing feedback on MARSOC nominations.
3. Operational Support: Support live operations with real-time information evaluation, manage and update intelligence, and utilize ANPR for live enquiries.
4. Collaboration and Systems Access: Work with ROCU, Police systems, and the HMPPS Regional Intelligence Unit to enhance intelligence pictures and maintain sources.
5. Surveillance and Analysis: Write and manage applications for Directed Surveillance Authority, support analytical functions with open-source research, and participate in tactical planning meetings.