Role:

Salary: Band 8, £34,611 – £39,372

Location: Sunderland

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 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.  

Learn about our full benefits package

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 an Analyst (NEROCU).

What you’ll do

NEROCU are looking to recruit an analyst within the Research and analytical team to be responsible for the production of key research and analytical products across the region in the fight against Serious and Organise Crime.

• You will be part of a team of analysts and researchers producing analytical reports across strategic, tactical and operational areas.


• You will be required to provide and drive specialist analytical products and guidance to senior managers, officers and staff to aid decision making and support the regions control strategy areas.


• You will support all analytical functions within the ROCU, for operational areas there will be a requirement to produce evidential analytical products and attend Court when required.

The above duties and responsibilities give a broad outline of the function of the post. However, by necessity, these duties and responsibilities must be approached in a flexible manner to accommodate the changing needs and demands of the Research & Analytical function. The post-holder will be expected to adapt to changing circumstances and therefore the outline of duties may change from time to time.  This is reflected in the grade of the post supplied by the vacancy holder for all roles.

Sound interesting? For further information, and to support your application, please view the job description 

What you’ll bring

• You will be able to conduct in-depth analysis
  
  and research across a wide range of data sources, assessing information,
  
  conduction analysis and making reasoned judgements to be presented in a range
  
  of formats.
  
  


• Awareness and
  
  application of analytic tools and techniques, with good knowledge of information
  
  management, data integrity issues and the National Intelligence Model (NIM)
  
  


• Ability to analyse critically and
  
  using appropriate analytical techniques and software to assess threat, harm and
  
  risk
  
  


• Be able to provide
  
  recommendations and identify intelligence gaps
  
  


• Be able to work as part of a team and with
  
  stakeholders including partners, other agencies and forces.
  
  


• Strong communication skills, both verbal and
  
  written, able to promote new ideas and approaches to colleagues across the
  
  organisation. The ability to negotiate and
  
  influence with key stakeholders on analytical products to aid decision making
  
  and prioritisation
  
  


• To offer guidance, support and
  
  expertise to senior managers, officers and staff on analytical products
  
  


• You will have experience and be competent in
  
  using IT software, including Microsoft Office and specialist programmes.


• You
  
  will need to have a full UK Driving License and be willing to travel throughout
  
  the UK 

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 contact Angela Lau by email at angela.lau@nersou.police.uk

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 Analyst (NEROCU) with #TeamNP. 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 an assessment, presentation and face-to-face interview  expected to take place w/c 21st July 2025. 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, 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.

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.