Chief Immigration Officer
| Posting date: | 22 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £37,300 to £39,911 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Plus allowance of approximately 33%, which equates to an additional £12,309pa based on salary minimum. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 May 2025 |
| Location: | Liverpool |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 400671/1 |
Summary
Immigration Enforcement is responsible for enforcing the government’s immigration laws, tackling illegal migration, removing foreign national offenders and immigration offenders from the UK. It also aims to disrupt the organised criminal groups that exploit the vulnerable for their personal gain. Learn more on our careers pages.
Criminal & Financial Investigation (CFI) is a directorate within Enforcement, Compliance & Crime (ECC). Our mission is to investigate all aspects of immigration crime and bring the full force of the law against those who are seeking to abuse our border and immigration systems.
Our aim is to play a major part in disrupting organised crime groups involved in bringing people to the United Kingdom illegally. We do this by carrying out criminal investigations into these organised crime groups and use the Proceeds of Crime Act to strip them of their illicit profits. We also investigate and arrest foreign nationals who present a threat to society.
You’ll manage a team of Immigration Officers, focusing on serious and organised immigration crime investigations, to achieve maximum disruption of organised crime group (OCG)’s operating in the UK and overseas. Using the latest techniques, you’ll disrupt and apprehend high-threat criminal immigration focused activities, build cases, and bring criminals to justice. The primary aim of this team is to take forward investigations into the organised groups who are facilitating the illegal movement of migrants.
You will also act as regional on-call CIO, taking and assessing referrals from National Command and Control Unit (NCCU) and other law enforcement agencies to ensure full out-of-hours CFI coverage.
Key responsibilities
- Leading and supervising a team of investigators and investigations, providing effective and proactive supervision from the outset to ensure effective investigation strategies are set and the most effective outcomes are identified and pursued, and ensuring investigations are conducted at pace and subject to regular reviews.
- Acting as the lead investigator in the most serious and complex cases or otherwise acting as the senior investigating officer.
- Managing and monitoring of investigations to ensure progress towards disruption targets.
- Assisting with operational activity and acting as Officer in Charge of enforcement activity.
- Building and maintaining effective working relationships with other law enforcement partners and stakeholders.
- Attending court when required to give evidence.
- Ensuring compliance with the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE), Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act (CPIA) and Home Office policy, procedures and professional standards.
- Mentoring newly qualified Immigration Officer Criminal Investigators to the appropriate standard.
Working pattern
Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis. The post requires a commitment to working flexibly, including weekend working, on-call, and shift working.
Training
You will receive full training and support to do the job. Training takes place initially in the classroom and then continues on the job with a mentor who supports you until you are fully confident in the role. Even then you are never alone; you work as part of a team where there is always someone around for advice and support. Further information on what the training involves can be found on our website.
Travel
The role will involve some travel throughout the UK as well as working away from home, including overnight stays where necessary.
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