Job Description

The North West Regional Organised Crime Unit is a collaborative multi agency covert response to tackle serious and organised crime across the North West Region.

The role of the SOC coordinators is to act as regional ambassadors for Clear Hold and Build (CHB) and provide advice to forces and their LROs on how to use the framework. The SOC CC will support forces in the region to ensure they have the foundation blocks in place to operationalise CHB successfully.

Clear, Hold, Build (CHB) is an end-to-end partnership approach developed and piloted by the Home Office in collaboration with NPCC. Its aim is to reduce the SOC threat and crime levels in high-harm areas and build community resilience in a sustainable way. By bringing together conventional and covert investigative methods; multi-agency disruption tactics and local policing and partner-based problem-solving skills, CHB provides a framework to enable forces and partners to:

• Identify the highest harm areas

• Clear - ruthlessly pursue OCG members through intensive enforcement activity

• Hold - immediately address the “vacuum” this leaves as part of the Hold phase, by preventing other OCGs from taking over the location including by offering support services and safeguarding referrals

• Build - strengthen communities’ resilience and resistance to criminality in a way that prevents SOC/crime from reoccurring

• Manage a SOC CC Sergeant collectively supporting forces with SOC related initiatives including CHB and response to 4P plans

SOC CCs support delivery of effective and sustainable 4P response to forces, partnerships and communities through:

• Providing support and guidance to forces to develop coordinated 4P plans and responses that drive operational activity

• Work with partners to maximise opportunities to access funding streams and to identify and mitigate the SOC threats within communities.

• Provide advice and guidance to LROs and encourage effective collaboration to tackle the threat and reduce demand.

• Understand national, regional and local priorities for tackling SOC and delivering safer streets.

• SOC CCs undertake the role of Regional SCPO coordinators and provide advice and guidance in relation to the management and administration of SCPOs.

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 North West 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 Andy Priest 0151 777 2520 or DCI Paul McVeigh 0151 777 7699.– 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. 

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

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