NBCC Sergeant
Sergeant : National Business Crime Centre (NBCC)
Job Title: NBCC Sergeant
Reporting line: NBCC Superintendent (City of London Police)
Location: The post holder will be based in their home force, however, as this a national role some travelling may be necessary.
Tenure: Up to 2 years, possibility to extend by mutual agreement.
Contract: Attachment / Secondment
Vetting Level: TBC
Key Objectives: To support the NBCC Supt. in developing the national policing response to business crime with a strong focus on retail partnership working, protecting businesses from crime and staff from harm.
- Raising standards of Police approach to businesses and promote mutually beneficial standards of engagement nationally
- Improve partnerships with the business community to reduce the impact of crime.
- Working with the Security Industry Authority and private security industry to develop partnership opportunities
- Coordinate and improve national standards of police reporting and response to business crime
- Disrupt organised business crime activity
- Identify and address public vulnerability in businesses
- Put prevention at the heart of all business engagement – through design, training, technology and the development of control strategies
- Improve communication and intelligence sharing with the business community
- Monitor force activity to drive improvement
- Increase the protection of businesses as victims
- Provide a repository of good practice and support to both police and the business community
- Develop opportunities for businesses to support and tender sponsorship for the NBCC
Key responsibilities
- To plan, manage and monitor activities to support crime prevention in line with the key objectives listed above.
- Work with partners to identify required policy and legislative changes.
- Develop and maintain relationships with business and multi-agency partners to drive collaboration and inform policing priorities and plans
- Research and identify opportunities to improve existing processes, implement improvements and promote best practice
Essential Requirements
- Evidence of engagement with external partners to deliver successful initiatives
- Strong partnership skills with external bodies
- Background in policing partnerships and problem solving to deliver crime prevention
Desirable Requirements
- An understanding of business crime and the current policing challenges
- Evidence of engagement with the business partners to deliver successful initiatives
- Strong partnership skills with the business community
- Experience of working in partnership to tackle business crime
- Experience of working at a regional or national level
The closing date for applications is Monday 24th November 2025 @ 23:59.
The application and interview will be tested under Level 2 of the College of Policing Competency and Values Framework.
If you would like to discuss the post in more detail, please contact: hrservices@city-of-london.pnn.police.uk
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