Immigration Enforcement

5 months ago


Dover, United Kingdom Home Office Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 301078**Salary**:

- £25,750 - £27,650- AHW up to 37% is applicable on this role (see further information for more details).- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer- Immigration Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- HO - Borders and Enforcement - Immigration Enforcement**Type of role**:

- Analytical
- Finance
- Information Technology
- Intelligence
- Investigation
- Operational Delivery**Working pattern**:

- Full-time, Part-time, Shift Working**Number of jobs available**:

- 4Contents

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- Priory Court - DoverAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- Immigration Enforcement is responsible for enforcing the government’s immigration laws, tackling illegal migration, removing foreign national offenders and immigration offenders from the UK. It also aims to disrupt the organised criminal groups that exploit the vulnerable for their personal gain. Learn more on the Immigration Enforcement careers page.**Job description**:
Immigration Enforcement tackles the criminality behind organised immigration crime. Our Criminal and Financial Investigation (CFI) teams play a fundamental role in tackling immigration crime, as part of a multi-layered UK law enforcement approach; utilising its financial investigations capability to remove the proceeds of crime and strip criminals of their assets. Through working closely with partners in the National Crime Agency, territorial policing and many other agencies and departments, our CFI Teams take vigorous action against those criminals that seek to benefit from illegal migration.

Working for Immigration Enforcement is challenging and fast paced, requiring sound decision making in demanding and often time-sensitive situations and environments and can require working to tight deadlines dictated by the court and the Crown Prosecution Service. Financial Investigators operate nationally, hence there will be a requirement to deploy at short notice, which may involve overnight stays away from home. In addition, training courses may be anywhere in the UK and residential.

Financial investigation asset recovery work falls under civil legislation and the search for assets requires innovative and meticulous thinking.

To work in Immigration Enforcement, you must be able to meet these challenges while maintaining the highest standards of professionalism and teamwork with adherence to our vision statement:
Tackling immigration crime by empowering our people, inspiring confidence and protecting communities.

The Financial Investigation Units work closely with their Crime Team colleagues, Crown Prosecution Service CPS and Home Office lawyers to:

- Investigate the extent and whereabouts of criminal benefit, confiscate criminal assets after conviction and deny criminals of any further financial gain.
- Restrain criminal assets via CPS to prevent dissipation and protect assets for confiscation.
- Seize, detain and investigate cash, listed assets, and freeze bank accounts.

**Person specification**:
**Responsibilities**
- Analysing financial material predominantly bank accounts.
- Drafting comprehensive summaries/statements in criminal and civil proceedings for submission to crime team colleagues, CPS lawyers, counsel and the courts.
- Interviewing witnesses and suspects.
- Conducting premises searches to identify the extent and whereabouts of criminal benefit, including financial investigation support to the crime teams in support of prosecutions.
- Giving evidence during court hearings (all CFI staff are required to disclose any adverse judicial decisions or internal disciplinary matters under CPIA. Applicants need to bear this in mind when considering their eligibility for this post).
- Participating in a national FI on-call roster.
- Undertaking/progressing cash seizures, listed asset, and frozen funds investigations.
- Reporting FI activity on departmental databases and on the Joint Assets Recovery Database. (JARD).
- Reporting to the Chief Immigration Officer and Her Majesty’s Inspector with case updates.
- Managing case load of investigations. You will be accountable for expedient and thorough investigations.

This position is only open to applicants who are willing to be trained as Financial Investigators. This accreditation can only be obtained through the National Crime Agency - Proceeds of Crime Centre and its training pathway. This involves studying, taking exams which are pass or fail, submission of work portfolios and mentoring.

You will be required to obtain and maintain your FI accreditation (Continuing Professional Development) with The Proceeds of Crime Centre (NCA) which includes regular assessed learning.

The FI learning pathway is detailed below. All officers will be trained up to and including confiscation. The FI structure consists of three workstreams.

These workstreams are:

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