Role:
Salary: Band 3, £23,958
Location: Sunderland Area
Hours: 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm
Placement dates: 48-week contract normally between June 2024 and September 2025
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.
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 NEROCU as a Digital Intern.
What you’ll do
1. Help to research and develop software and hardware solutions which can be used to gather, store and analyse intelligence and evidence for use within criminal investigations.
2. Provide advice and support to the Regional Organised Crime Unit on the development and delivery of digital tactics.
3. Build effective working relationships with partner organisations, academia and industry to maximise learning opportunities and advance operational capabilities.
4. Being accountable for, and monitoring your own, and the team’s performance against deliverable objectives both locally and nationally. Constantly reviewing and evaluating the effectiveness of your work.