Specialist Support and Surveillance Officer (NEROCU)
Vacancy Type
Police Staff
Area Command / Department
NEROCU
Location
Sunderland
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Salary Range
£34,611 - £39,372
Closing Date
18/03/2025
Role:
Salary: Band 8, £34,611 – £39,372
Location: Based at Sunderland (Working Northeast and UK wide)
Hours/Contract: 37 Hours, Permanent
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 presenting 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.
Learn about our full benefits package.
The role
Join our team as a Specialist Support and Surveillance Officer, where you will play a crucial role in delivering a professional and effective covert investigative service. We are dedicated to proactively targeting force priorities, including Organised Criminal Groups (OCG), by utilising advanced specialist covert surveillance capabilities. In this role, you will plan, initiate, and deploy a wide range of covert and investigative tactics to gather intelligence and evidence as part of our sanctioned operational response.
This is your opportunity to join us and tackle the highest harm offenders involved in Serious and Organised Crime.
What you’ll do
- Plan, initiate and deploy a wide range of covert and investigative tactics, including surveillance as required to gather intelligence and evidence as part of the sanctioned operational response.
- Retain professional license status in surveillance (Q1, MPS surveillance course or equivalent) and therefore the prerequisite of advanced driving authority.
- Undertake and maintain licences in enhanced surveillance capabilities including CROPS and other specialist surveillance functions.
- Seek to develop enhanced surveillance knowledge by undertaking continuous professional development through liaison with external agencies/partners, attending meetings, courses and completing qualifications
- Provide professional and expert advice / guidance to colleagues, other departments and partners that support and promote the development of excellence in investigative standards.
- Carry out dynamic risk assessments of investigative deployment strategies and lines of enquiry, taking into consideration personal and public safety to ensure the introduction of early measures to manage any threats to the operational security of the investigation.
Sound interesting? For further information, and to support your application, please view the job description.
What you’ll bring
- Competence and practical experience of RIPA, IPA, TEI, THRIVE and NDM operating within a regulated environment
- A full UK driving licence
- Flexibility – willing to work unsociable hours and travel across the UK at short notice.
- W1/W2 CoP Rural surveillance (CROPS) qualification.
- Q1 or equivalent CoP surveillance training qualification. Exceptional knowledge and/or practical experience of working within surveillance arena. Following appointment, there will be a requirement to obtain and maintain professional licensing qualifications as specified by The College of Policing.
- Candidates must be highly motivated, disciplined, and work well as part of a team and have the ability to make sound decisions and remain calm under pressure.
A forward looking and creative approach towards their duties and demonstrate a flexible approach towards the role.
Please note a lot of the tasks the SSU undertake are physically demanding and duties may include unsocial hours. Candidates must be extremely flexible and able to take calls throughout all times of day and night and be able to deploy on time critical operations if necessary.
We know it’s important for you to feel that you’re not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.
Interested to learn more? For further information about the role please email careers@northumbria.police.uk.
What we offer
- 26 days’ leave (increasing to 30 days for 5 years+ service) plus 8 bank holidays
- NHS Fleet Solutions Car Lease Scheme
- Enhanced maternity, shared parental and adoption leave
- Flexi time – allowing you to fit your working hours around your individual needs
- Flexible working (we are happy to discuss options such as compressed hours)
- Fantastic market-leading public sector pension scheme with up to 16% employer contribution
- Corporate travel schemes – local rail, bus services and metro discounts
- Access to private healthcare and eye test vouchers
- Discounts on shopping and eating out thanks to the Blue Light Card and Blue Light Tickets
- We’ve invested in extensive paid sick leave, trained mental health first aiders on-site, an employee advice service for the times you need that additional support.
- Access to gyms in some stations
- Sports & Social Club – join our thriving sports scene at Team NP and enjoy further exclusive discounts on days out and travel
- Cycle to work scheme
- Opportunity to volunteer in local community
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 Specialist Support and Surveillance Officer with NEROCU. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying 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 Security Clearance (SC) form, 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, medical information, and references.
Terms of appointment
This is a permanent role subject to a six-month probationary period.
If you are successful in your application, you will have a six-month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.