Head of Intelligence Services - Report Fraud
Post Title: Head of Intelligence Services – Report Fraud
Contract type: Permanent
Rank/grade: F+
This role is open to all Police Staff / external candidates who meet the essential criteria of the person spec, regardless of current grade.
Salary: £53,180 plus £6,710 London Weighting Allowance, plus £200 London Weighting Supplement
Directorate/department: National Lead Force
Vetting level required: MV/SC then DV to be undertaken once in role if not already held
Location: Guildhall Yard East and Agile
Who are we?
As City of London Police, we protect the people, businesses and infrastructure of the City of London, one of the most important and dynamic environments in the UK and globally. London City is the smallest home office force area in the country, so does that make our job any less challenging? Absolutely not – because there’s so much going on.
City of London Police play a vital role in keeping the City of London diverse community safe. As a Staff member you will be helping to making the city safer and deliver a valued service for those that live, work and visit the city and beyond.
The City of London Police is keen to promote flexible working and will, subject to operational policing requirements, proactively consider all applications to work flexibly.
The City of London Police is committed to equality of opportunities and continuously strive for inclusivity within our Force. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly from those with disabilities and long-term conditions, those with Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic backgrounds, female candidates, and LGBTQIA+ individuals.
About the team
You will be part of a wider management team looking after victim reporting, victim care and intelligence led by the Head of Victim Services
You will manage three analytical teams headed by senior analysts which will include analytical and research staff, responsible to creating thematic analytical products and a national strategic assessment for fraud and cyber-crime. Each thematic team will have responsibility for different fraud and cyber-crime typologies, working to support national policing and other law enforcement stakeholders and industry partners in assessing and analysing the current threat picture.
You will also be responsible for recruiting and tasking two data scientists who will be responsible for creating programmes and tooling to assist analysts and researchers in extracting data. You will foster close working relationships with the forces data lab capabilities and work closely with this team to expand and shape data science provision.
About the role
The successful applicant will be responsible for delivering world class analytical products to support and direct law enforcement activity across the UK and Internationally. They will represent the interests of the Report Fraud teams at international fora, ensuring the quality and suitability of the Intelligence products produced.
They will build and maintain a National Intelligence Model Compliant capability for National Policing at Level 2 ensuring all staff are Intelligence Professionalisation Programme compliant. They will develop a working data science provision within the Report Fraud Intelligence environment.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will be:
- Support to Report Fraud leadership team as a lead subject matter expert (SME) for the intelligence function within national fraud and cybercrime in policing through the participation in workshops, working groups, creation and review of documentation and process maps, and assessment of materials to assist and ensure successful delivery of Report Fraud.
- To attend and participate in regular meetings representing the NLF intelligence function as an SME and providing business input, materials and review where necessary.
- To co-ordinate and support stakeholder engagement, specific to the intelligence function in support of Report Fraud.
- To provide regular, consolidated updates to NLF Leadership Team, and take direction to implement changes, reflect and promote NLF and policing priorities at a strategic level.
- To represent the NLF Leadership Team at project boards and other governance meetings as required.
Requirements
For this role, we need you to have experience of:
- an analytical environment, to include management of analysts, researchers and data scientists.
- delivering effective joint working involving multiple organisations and stakeholders.
- overseeing the production and quality of reports at a strategic level.
This vacancy is open only to those who have the right to work in the UK.
If you would like to discuss the role, please contact:
DCI Hayley King @ Hayley.King@cityoflondon.police.uk
Selection Process
As part of the initial application process, you will be asked to evidence how your experience, skills, and knowledge demonstrate your ability to meet the person specification of the role at level 2 of the Competency and Values Framework.
Applicants who fail to address the skills/knowledge/experience of the job description will not be considered.
The closing date for applications is 9.00am on 5th of May 2025
Following shortlisting, successful candidates will be invited to attend a competency-based interview and a competency-based assessment to test leadership decision making, to be held week commencing 19th May 2025.
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A diverse workforce improves the service we provide to our public by making us more approachable and relevant within our communities. This is why it’s vitally important that we recruit people from a wide range of communities and backgrounds with an understanding of cultural issues and a wide range of skills. We therefore particularly encourage female and people from Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic communities to join us.
The way we work is changing. With a few exceptions most roles will be able to accommodate part time, job share and flexible working patterns. We can also offer hybrid working patterns of home and office-based shift patterns. Feel free to speak to us about any flexible working requirements.
The Force has a number of Staff Support Networks that can offer you support and advice. Applicants are very welcome to contact the networks directly if they need any support or ask any question before they apply. For further information on the networks and their contact details please visit:
https://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/police-forces/city-of-london-police/areas/city-of-london/about-us/about-us/equality-and-diversity2/equality-and-diversity-support-networks/