Criminal Investigator

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

- 389459

**Salary**:

- £29,475 - £36,461
- London Weighting applies minimum salary £34,093 maximum salary £36,461
(Stratford, Croydon)
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- HMRC - CCG - Fraud Investigation Service

**Type of role**:

- Investigation

**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

**Number of jobs available**:

- 14

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Location
- Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Croydon, Dover, Gartcosh, Ipswich, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Nottingham, Portsmouth, Stratford

About the job

**Job summary**:
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**About HMRC**

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is one of the UK’s largest organisations, with around 60,000 employees, collecting over £605 billion in tax revenue. We are an effective, efficient and impartial tax and payments authority with a vital purpose: to collect the money that pays for the UK’s public services and help families and individuals with targeted financial support.

**About Fraud Investigation Service**

HMRC’s Fraud Investigation Service (FIS) is responsible for the Department’s civil and criminal investigations.

FIS provides HMRC with an effective investigation arm to enforce the Department’s compliance policies. This enables the Department to deliver against the strategic responsibilities across all the taxes and duties it administers. This includes complex offshore evasion, international smuggling of illicit excise goods, exports of controlled weapons and technology, labour market abuses, VAT and Self-Assessment repayment frauds and a host of other fraud attacks targeted at the tax system.
FIS is home to a wide range of people with a variety of skills and professional backgrounds - including accountants, cybercrime specialists, criminal justice professionals, tax professionals and operational delivery support teams to name but a few. We use a range of powers and approaches to protect funding for UK public services, investigating the most harmful tax cheats and ensuring nobody is beyond our reach.

These roles are for Criminal Investigators within our different FIS business areas, Organised Crime, Offshore Corporate and Wealthy, Individuals and Business, Economic Crime and Internal Investigations.

**Job description**:
In this role you will undertake a variety of daily activities. You may be searching premises one day and conducting suspect interviews the next. We’ll provide world-class training as you develop specialised expertise in combatting tax fraud and protecting the public purse.

At its core, this job is about outsmarting criminal groups threatening the UK. You’ll need sharp judgement, resilience under confrontation and integrity as you exercise far-reaching investigative powers.

In addition to operational work, this role involves vital desk-based duties where attention to detail is key. You will rigorously compile evidence and prepare thorough briefings to build an airtight case that will stand up to scrutiny in court. Investigators must be comfortable presenting their findings and defending their investigative decisions under examination in court.

You will be asked to undertake any aspect of criminal investigation work for which HMRC has responsibility. You will be expected to undertake:
**Search of Premises**
- Undertake operational activities such as search of premises, seizure of goods and detention of goods.

**Arrests**.
- Undertake arrests, conduct search of person and interview under caution, diffusing potentially confrontational situations.

**Utilise HMRC Powers**
- Use powers granted to HMRC to investigate and gather evidence.
- Develop and maintain knowledge of relevant legislation and regulations.

**Make decisions**
- Use own judgement to assess evidence.
- Take ownership and be accountable for planning, decisions and activities regarding investigations.
- Utilise forensic evidence and understand how and when to use forensic services.
- Interact and collaborate with a wide range of internal and external people including other parts of HMRC, the Police, Border Force, National Crime Agency, Solicitors, Crown Prosecutors and colleagues from Other Government Departments.

**Complete witness statements**
- Take witness statements from a variety of people, both internal and external.

**Attend court**
- Attend court to give evidence in criminal prosecutions and / or financial recovery hearings.
- Undertake the role of Disclosure Officer / Reviewing Officer in relation t