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.  

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 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

• Research and Assess: Conduct intelligence research on high-threat individuals and problems, identifying intelligence gaps and setting requirements.


•  Gather and Analyse: Collect, analyse, and de-conflict intelligence, creating case files and subject profiles, and providing feedback on MARSOC nominations.


•  Operational Support: Support live operations with real-time information evaluation, manage and update intelligence, and utilize ANPR for live enquiries.


•  Collaboration and Systems Access: Work with ROCU, Police systems, and the HMPPS Regional Intelligence Unit to enhance intelligence pictures and maintain sources.


•  Surveillance and Analysis: Write and manage applications for Directed Surveillance Authority, support analytical functions with open-source research, and participate in tactical planning meetings.

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

What you’ll bring

• Intelligence Experience and Research: Recent and relevant experience within an intelligence environment, including research capabilities.


• Knowledge and Qualifications: Good knowledge of the intelligence process and cycle (including NIM), IPP qualification or ability to obtain it, and continuous professional development.


• Organizational and Analytical Skills: Strong organizational, planning, and time management skills, with proven experience in collating and assessing information to make accurate recommendations.


• Legislation and IT Proficiency: Understanding of relevant legislation (Data Protection, MOPI, CPIA, HRA), willingness to train in regional IT and intelligence systems, and high standard of IT skills.


• Teamwork and Confidentiality: Ability to work both independently and as part of a team, experience in operationally sensitive environments, and handling confidential material.

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 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)


• Agile working – option to work from home, your team zone, and spaces across the force


• 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

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 Intelligence Development Officer 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 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, 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 fixed-term 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.