NWROCU DC Operations Team

This secondment opportunity is open to applicants currently employed by the following Police Forces - Merseyside, GMP, Cumbria, Lancashire, North Wales, or Cheshire Police only

The Northwest Regional Organised Crime Unit –NWROCU is a collaborative multi agency covert response tasked with identifying, disrupting and dismantling organised crime groups who cause the most harm across the Northwest. This includes Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside and North Wales. 

This is an exciting opportunity for a Constable or Detective Constable to join an Operational NWROCU Team located in the North (Lancaster), Central (Kirkby) or Southern (Saltney) part of the region. 

The successful candidate will drive a proactive response via enhanced partnership working with local forces and partner agencies to prioritise, target and disrupt cross border threats and middle market OCG’s.

This approach will allow greater opportunities to support local proactive operations and investigations around key threat areas and impact on regional criminal activity leaving no safe space for OCG’s to operate within.

Objectives will be to support thematic operations and target OCG’s to relentlessly disrupt and dismantle criminality, whilst building the highest levels of defence and resilience for vulnerable people, businesses and communities.

The Northwest region has an extensive number of complex OCG’s who are capable of significant criminality with large-scale links to drugs, firearms and economic crime.  Operational Teams will provide a proactive response in order to prioritise, target and disrupt cross border threats and middle market OCG’s.

Staff gain valuable operational experience by supporting forces during pre-planned strike days, ensuring teams are fully prepared to deploy operationally and execute warrants. They also identify, review and develop intelligence opportunities while maintaining responsibility as Officer in Charge (OIC) for their own investigations.

PIP 1 – PIP 2 pathway role: Successful applicants will be required to sit the NIE and begin the PIP 2 pathway within two years of taking up the role. Staff will receive full support throughout the attainment of PIP 1 and PIP 2 accreditation. In addition, they are provided with opportunities to progress through the ROCT pathway, further enhancing their investigative skills and career development.

The NWROCU leads the policing response across the region posed by serious and organised crime in Cumbria, Lancashire, Merseyside, Cheshire, Greater Manchester and North Wales.  The NWROCU provides the vital link from national capabilities and expertise to local policing and knowledge, enabling the Northwest region to deliver the Government’s serious and organised Crime strategy and to protect communities from harm.

The post is subject to an initial secondment of two years reviewable based on continuous funding and performance.

Further developments in NWROCU’s capabilities are anticipated in the future. Applications received for Operational roles that require mandatory Officer Safety/First Aid training must hold valid in date training or able to undertake upon application.

Full details of the role requirements are provided in the JDQ.

Successful applicants working within NWROCU will be subject to MV (Management Vetting) and SC (Security Clearance) prior to taking up post.  

In cases where the commute to work is in excess of applicant’s current commute the excess travel will be paid.

NWROCU is committed to ensuring that we have a work force that represents the communities we serve, and we are keen to attract applications from underrepresented groups.

Further information, advice and guidance regarding the posts can be obtained from DI Tim Farley on 01517775821 / [email protected] - interested parties are encouraged to make contact to learn more about the role

All applications must be supported by the Home Force support, the level of support required must comply with local Force policy e.g. whether support required at ACC level and HR Support. Before starting an application, applicants must download the NWROCU secondment support form, ensure it is completed in full and then upload to your application. 

Applications from GMP will be considered on a case-by-case basis

Applicants will be prompted and applications will not proceed until this has been completed.

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