Financial Intelligence Officer SIDT - NEROCU

Financial Intelligence Officer SIDT - NEROCU

Vacancy Type:
Police Staff

Area Command / Department: NEROCU

Location:

Sunderland

Contract Type:
Fixed Term

Hours:

Full Time

Closing Date: 31/05/2026

Hours/

Contract:

37 Hours, Fixed Term Contract/Internal Secondment Until 31 March 2029

Location:

Sunderland

Working for:
North East Regional Organised Crime Unit ("NEROCU")

The North East Regional Organised Crime Unit is one of nine 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 coordinating 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.

Join a team at the forefront of tackling Serious and Organised Crime, where you’ll use financial intelligence to identify offenders, support investigations and help disrupt criminal activity.

You’ll bring knowledge of financial intelligence systems such as Moneyweb, ARENA or SARS Digital Service (SDS), using them to uncover insights that lead to prosecutions and asset recovery. Experience with Altia Financial Investigation Toolkit (FIT) is also key, enabling you to efficiently process, standardise and analyse complex banking data from both electronic and paper sources, including balancing and categorising financial information.

Working closely with regional and national partners, you’ll share intelligence, identify emerging trends and drive best practice—contributing to a collaborative, intelligence-led approach across policing.

• Develop plans with the Senior Financial Intelligence Officer and liaise with SIDT National Tactical Coordinators to align objectives and ways of working, ensuring financial intelligence supports investigations effectively.
• Proactively interrogate systems such as Moneyweb, ARENA, SDS and SDA to identify and develop financial intelligence into actionable opportunities to disrupt Serious and Organised Crime (SOC).
• Analyse and process banking material using Altia Financial Investigation Toolkit (FIT), including balancing and categorising data to support Economic Crime investigations.
• Obtain and maintain Financial Intelligence Officer (FIO) accreditation (if not already held), supported through continuous professional development.
• Enhance intelligence through Pre-Order and Tournier Rule enquiries with financial institutions, supporting Financial Investigators in securing financial orders.
• Receive, record and appropriately sanitise financial intelligence in line with the National Intelligence Model and the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996.
• Apply the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, alongside other legislation and partner agency channels, to develop intelligence packages for financial and wider investigations.
• Interrogate the Financial Intelligence Gateway (FIG), Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and other data sources to build intelligence for investigative use.

• NCA Financial Intelligence Officer accreditation (or willingness to achieve)
• Experience or knowledge of Moneyweb, ARENA, SDS/SDA and Financial Intelligence Gateway, including handling SARs
• Working knowledge of Altia FIT to process, analyse, balance and categorise financial data
• Understanding of CPIA, disclosure requirements, PACE, POCA and Police Conduct…