Counter Fraud Investigator
| Posting date: | 29 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £28,119 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 June 2024 |
| Location: | Leeds |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 355216/2 |
Summary
Are you an individual with excellent organisational skills?
Do you enjoy extracting complicated, in-depth information and transferring that into understandable information for a wider audience?
If so, we would love to hear from you!
The role holder is responsible for the day to day investigations across the Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) Driver/Rider/Vehicle environments.
The role holder ensures delivery of an effective, timely, business and customer focussed counter fraud investigations in accordance with plans and corporate objectives. The role has specific responsibility for counter fraud (reactive), bribery and corruption investigations.
The role holder is responsible for providing a rigour by which matters of impropriety in the areas identified above can be managed and actioned as required by the Investigation Manager, Senior Investigation Manager and the Head of Counter-Fraud.
Your duties may include but not limited to
- Planning and executing surveillance on target nominals, including dealing with Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) issues.
- Conduct investigations in line with current best practices, Police & Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) RIPA, Criminal Procedure & Investigations Act (CPIA), Data Protection Act (DPA), & Freedom of Information (FOI) and Scottish equivalents.
- Prepare full reports and papers for prosecution cases and / or Public Enquires to critical deadlines.
- Appear in court as an expert witness.
- Investigate all allocated reports of suspected illegal driving instruction and malpractice against the agency.
- Ensure investigations are conducted in a manner which is only evidence based.
For more information please see attached the candidate pack.