Technical Surveillance Officer

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

- 436197

**Salary**:

- £37,682 - £40,705
- This post attracts a Level 2 Flexibility Payment (FP) that is paid monthly with salary.
Details of the Flexibility Payment can be found in the attached document.
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer

** Contract type**:

- Permanent

** Business area**:

- HMRC - CCG - Fraud Investigation Service

** Type of role**:

- Operational Delivery

** Working pattern**:

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

** Number of jobs available**:

- 1

**Contents**:

- Location
- About the job
- Benefits
- Things you need to know

** Location**:

- Leeds

** About the job**:
** Job summary**:

- Discover a career in your hands at HMRC. Whether you're seeking purpose, growth, or a workplace that gives you a true sense of belonging, hear from some of our employees as they share their story about what it’s really like to work at HMRC.- Visit our YouTube channel to watch the full series and come and discover your potential.
- HMRC is the UK’s tax, payments and customs authority and we have a vital purpose: we collect the money that pays for the UK’s public services and help families and individuals with targeted financial support.

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.

Covert Operations, Digital Exploitation (CODE) sits within FIS. Working across Law Enforcement and government, CODE provides investigative tools and covert techniques to front-line investigations and works with key partners to develop and provide access to new technology and systems to enable investigators to respond to serious and complex tax evasion and crime.

** Job description**:

- This is an exciting opportunity to join the Tactical Surveillance Group (TSG) as a Technical Surveillance Officer.

The TSG are a surveillance team within FIS Covert Operations, Digital Exploitation. The team strive to provide innovative solutions to complex and often highly challenging scenarios where the collection of intelligence or evidence is key to the progression of an investigation and traditional techniques would likely fail.

TSG’s work is diverse, challenging and frequently involves deploying into high-risk environments. The team comprises of surveillance professionals with a diverse range of skill sets.

The team provide a service to wider Investigation and Intelligence directorates within HMRC, finding solutions for when collecting evidence and intelligence becomes challenging using normal conventional methods.
- **Training**:

- Applicants will be required to be cleared by an occupational health assessment to be able to attend a public and personal safety training (PPST) course. Successful completion of the PPST is required to undertake duties away from the office for this role. Failure to pass and maintain the PPST certificate may affect receipt of the flexibility payment.

** Person specification**:

- The assembly, repair, and installation of covert audio/video equipment, tracking equipment.
- Covert duties in relation to Targeted Equipment Interference (TEI).
- Property interference and other intrusive techniques.
- Designing and fabricating bespoke solutions to technical surveillance challenges.
- General technical support to specialist equipment and vehicles.
- The role will involve frequently close working with other Law Enforcement partners such as the National Crime Agency and Police forces.
- Other aspects of the role may involve
- Representing the Department at national specialist user groups/forums or other duties at the direction of the SIO.
- Research and development - preparing business cases for the procurement of new equipment and technology.
- The role involves supporting HMRC operations nationally, which will require regular travel and nights away. The role necessitates working unsocial hours, being on-call, frequent short notice duty changes and additional hours, for which a Level 2 Flexibility Payment allowance