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HQ Job Description (JD)
Band 4
Directorate: Directorate of Security
Job Description: Regional Organised Crime Officer
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HQ-JES-2417 Regional Organised Crime Officer v3.0
Document Type
Management
Version
3.0
Classification
Official
Date of Issue
18 September 2025
Status
Baselined
Produced by
Job Evaluation and Support Team
Authorised by
Reward Team
JD Evidence
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Job Description
Job Title
Regional Organised Crime Officer
Directorate
Directorate of Security
Band
4
Overview of the
The Directorate of Security (DOS) exists to support HMPPS in its
job
mission to prevent victims by changing lives. We do this by
creating conditions for a firm, stable and secure base on which
decent regimes, relationships and rehabilitation can be built. To
keep prisons, probation and youth custody services lawful, safe
and secure by managing risks and threats.
Serious and Organised Crime represents a major threat to the
UK’s national security and costs the country more than £30
billion a year. The Government refreshed its SOC strategy to
deal with the threats we face from SOC in October 2018.
The Serious Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) tackle the highest
harm SOC nominals in custody and under supervision in the
community and use operational insight to build organisational
capability and resilience against serious and organised crime
threats.
Focusing on Serious and Organised Crime the post holder will
play a vital role in delivering, at a regional and local level,
support and advice to disrupt organised crime in custody.
This is an Operational role.
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Summary
The post holder will help establishments identify and assist in the
management of prisoners who have been identified as serious
and organised criminals; provide briefings and training to
establishment staff around Organised Crime Group nominals
and disruption tactics/interventions with prisoners who have
been identified as SOC Band 1 nominals.
The post holder will work with internal and external partners to
deliver the response required to manage the risk surrounding
SOC Band 1 nominals. They will coordinate and drive reactive
and proactive interventions and activity to assist in establishing
SOC routes and threats within establishments caused by serious
organised criminality.
The post holder will be responsible for case managing the
highest risk prisoners identified by recognised tasking and
identification processes and ensure a comprehensive multi
agency response to their criminality is coordinated and relayed to
all appropriate partners.
The Regional Serious and Organised Crime Team is a function
of HMPPS Serious and Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), part of
National Security Group within the Directorate of Security.
Frequent travel across a Region and occasional travel to SOCU
meetings in Headquarters and DOS Regional hubs will be
required. An establishment within their Region will be identified
as the main base for the post holder.
The post holder will report to the Regional Serious Organised
Crime Manager [ROCM].
The post holder has no line management responsibility.
Responsibilities,
The job holder will be required to carry out the following
Activities and
responsibilities, activities and duties:
Duties
To support the management of all SOC Band 1 nominals
providing advice, guidance and information gleaned through a
comprehensive investigation of those nominals’ activities.
Ensuring that you enhance establishment capability and share
best practice and lessons learned regionally the post holder will:
• The post holder will be responsible for the direct case
management of SOC Band 1 nominals as identified via
agreed identification processes. They will be responsible
for agreeing local activity with the establishment’s Security
Department and negotiating access and opportunities to
develop information around their targets.
• Ensure that all information regarding SOC nominals is
shared appropriately with partners (Security Departments,
Establishment OMs, LEAs) updating all records across a
range of platforms i.e. Mercury, PNOMIS, Case
Management records etc.
• The postholder will be comfortable and capable (via
training and development) in delivering briefings to
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Managers and Senior Managers in establishments
ensuring that local management teams are kept abreast
of plans and development around SOC Band 1 nominals.
• To maintain the Digital Case Management System
(DCMS) with accurate and up to date information
regarding the ongoing management of SOC Band 1
nominals ensuring reporting is shared with the
establishment.
• Be motivated to work independently, often remotely from
a variety of locations with little or no daily supervision.
• Be able to develop close relationships with stakeholders
outside of HMPPS (NCA, HMRC, Police).
• Deputise for the B5 Regional SOC Manager at
multiagency risk management meetings when required.
• Be responsible for the planning, delivery and facilitation of
specialist interventions or disruptions directly or by other
stakeholders that seek to divert and support SOC B1
nominals and those engaging in or vulnerable to SOC
offending.
• Advise Offender Supervisors who manage serious and
organised criminals.
• Form close working links with establishment offender
management units, acting as a single point of contact for
SOC related matters.
• Establish effective working relationships with SOC
Probation colleagues and other partner agencies, for the
preparation and planning of the release of SOC offenders.
Ensuring that local POMs and OMU staff are sighted on
appropriate risks.
• Establish effective working relationships with SOC
Probation colleagues and other partner agencies, for the
preparation and planning of the release of SOC offenders.
Ensuring that local POMs and OMU staff are sighted on
appropriate risks.
Establishment Support:
• Support work with prison intelligence analysts on known
nominal targets and act as the initial point of contact for
advice for establishments, on managing those prisoners
whose behaviour may suggest SOC offending.
• Work closely with establishment Security Departments to
support them in their responsibility for ensuring that all
SOC related issues are fully investigated, intelligence
developed and contextualised in preparation for any case
management meetings or local TTCG/Security Committee
meetings. To provide specialist advice on SOC related
issues to Security Department staff and Senior Managers.
• Responsible for mail and pin phone monitoring.
• Engage with other prison staff to get the fuller picture,
embed in activities that will get the bigger picture. Wing
staff and wing management. Where tactically required
blend into the wing team.
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Able to work on own initiative, instinct.
The role will require working in establishments, sometimes at
short notice to lead or form part of tactical disruption
interventions which may occur at any time 365 days a year.
Undertake other tasks including:
• Maintain and update systems in line with local
agreements.
• Prepare relevant documentation for managers for
verification/quality checking purposes.
• Attend and contribute to relevant meetings as required.
• Undertake any specialist training required.
• Establish, develop and maintain professional relationships
with prisoners and staff.
• Understand and comply with national/local policies and
legislation.
• Exercise the Powers of a Constable.
The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is
at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The job holder is
expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of
a similar level that may be necessary. Significant adjustments
may require re-examination under the Job Evaluation Scheme
and shall be discussed in the first instance with the job holder.
An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence
through the medium of English or (where specified in Wales)
Welsh.
Behaviours
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
Strengths
Note: we recommend you choose 4 to 8 strengths locally - select
from the list of Civil Service strength definitions on the intranet.
Experience
• Problem solving and decision making skills
• Good communications, confident and aware of partnership
working benefits
Technical
• Good understanding of the operational context of prisons
Requirements
Ability
• Hold a current UK driving license
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Minimum
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Eligibility
• All candidates are subject to security and identity checks prior to
taking up post.
• All external candidates are subject to 6 months’
probation. Internal candidates are subject to probation if they
have not already served a probationary period within HMPPS.
• All staff are required to declare whether they are a member of a
group or organisation which HMPPS consider to be racist.
Hours of Work
37 hour working week (standard).
(Unsocial Hours)
Allowances
HMPPS Staff on closed pay structures only:
Additional Conditioned Hours Pensionable (ACHP)
Staff moving from a closed 39 hour pay structure will be eligible
for the two protected pensionable additional committed hours
(ACHP). They will work a 39 hour week consisting of the
standard 37 hour week and a further 2 additional hours (ACHP)
paid at plain time pensionable rate.
Unsocial Hours Working:
This role requires working regular unsocial hours and a payment
at the current organisational rate will be paid in addition to your
basic pay to recognise this. Unsocial hours are those hours
outside 0700 - 1900hrs Monday to Friday and include working
evenings, nights, weekends and Bank/Public holidays.
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