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.
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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 Case Officer Embedded.
This is an exciting and unique role, where you will gain first-hand knowledge of Serious and Organised Crime, leading the intelligence collection against the highest priority offenders in the North East Region.
We are looking for someone who can build strong working relationships and work closely with internal and external partners including the NCA, in order to identify intelligence and collaborative opportunities.
You will be responsible for ensuring the effective delivery of gathering, developing and analysing sensitive intelligence from a wide range of sources to support the fight against serious and organised crime. You will demonstrate integrity and resilience when dealing with issues and investigations, confident in your ability to make decisions that will affect operational activity based on sound research and analysis.
The role is located within the NCA at Warrington and provides an exciting opportunity for applicants to work within an environment where NEROCU staff work alongside other regions and NCA colleagues, supporting the most sensitive Policing capabilities.

JUST SO YOU KNOW

Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a Case Officer Embedded with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re ing for and the values and behaviours that contribute.
The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by a face-to-face interview. Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.
We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, with whom we collaborate with to improve the lives of disabled employees. We are also a Disability Confident Employer, therefore if you demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria for this role as stated in the advert, we will progress your application and offer you an interview.
If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via careers@northumbria.police.uk for any support regarding the application process. Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly.
If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Management Vetting (MV)/ Security Clearance (SC) form with an additional NCA vetting process. You will also be required to undergo DV Vetting. Therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 5 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance and medical information.
Appointment will be conditional upon successful completion of a Pre-Training Assessment and a 10-week training programme (elements of which are a pass or fail).

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• You will ensure confidentiality and integrity are at the forefront of everything you do, ensuring quality, secure handling and dissemination of intelligence, sensitivity and duty of care.
• You will identify risks and threats in order to manage the NPCC’s responsibility to preserve life as per Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
• You will contribute to the acquisition and development of tactical and strategic intelligence relating to Serious and Organised Crime affecting the North East region, and the UK Policing landscape.
• Develop, research and analyse tactical and strategic sensitive intelligence relating to serious and organised crime in support of the National Control Strategy, the NEROCU control strategy and other identified priorities in the fight to cut serious and organised crime.
• Disseminate fast-paced live-time dynamic intelligence to assist operational teams on the ground in terms of officer safety, evidence gathering opportunities, and enforcement action.
  Sound interesting? For further information, and to support your application, please view the job description.