NWROCU Detective Sergeant County Lines

Detective Sergeant – County Lines (Deputy Regional Coordinator)

NCLCC County Lines Coordination Team

North West Regional Organised Crime Unit

This post is open to substantive Sergeants or to suitably qualified Constables, who with the support of their Chief Officers, will be temporarily promoted into the post.

The North West Regional Organised Crime Unit is a collaborative multi agency covert response to tackle serious and organised crime across the North West Region.

County Lines is a high priority threat for the North West Region. This is the exploitation of the most vulnerable people in society by criminal groups to further their crime empires. County Lines effects all forces nationally but the NW has particular issues with two large metropolitan forces impacting on other forces within the region, as well as further afield, in addition to challenges from Police Scotland and other ROCU areas.

This is an exciting and rare opportunity to be part of the National County Lines Coordination Centre (NCLCC) structure, tackling County Line Drug Supply and the associated exploitation of the vulnerable, working with Force County Lines (CL) bronzes, other Regional CL Coordinators, NCLCC colleagues, and external partners, to coordinate and improve the law enforcement response to the CL threat. This will be achieved by driving 4P (Pursue, Prevent, Protect, Prepare) activity, through providing tactical advice & support to police forces, law enforcement partners and regional investigative syndicates whilst delivering on any national requirements fed from the NCLCC.

Key Responsibilities

What does the average day look like? Supported by the Regional Coordinator DI, your core duties will include:

• Work closely with the NCLCC and Regional Coordinators to ensure that links and opportunities identified by the NCLCC are fed through to the relevant forces and partner agencies for consideration for positive action based on the 4P principles. 
• Deliver Tactical Advice to SIOs and Investigators across the region, as one of a National team of Regional Coordinators/Deputy Coordinators, working to the needs of your region with support and direction of the NCLCC.
• Work closely with force stakeholders to identify and collate details of operational activity and recorded disruptions across their region focussed on most harmful lines.
• Coordinate and drive level 1 and 2 operations at force level to tackle the CL threat and deliver National and Regional CL prepare, protect, pursue and prevent activity.
• Deliver regional CL prepare, protect, pursue and prevent activity to enhance the CL related response to associated threat and harm. To include, training, identifying best practice, national collaboration for identifying trends, enhancing use of relevant tactics and legislation.
• Work with forces and other relevant partners, including non-governmental organisations and Regional Intelligence Units to help build a more complete picture of the CL threat across the regions through the use of the County Lines Intelligence Collection Matrix (CLICM), PND, and improved information sharing between agencies and partners.  
• Assist in enabling the regional County Lines analysts to collect, collate, evaluate and analyse data from a variety of police, partner agency, open source and academic sources to produce high quality analytical products and enhance the regional and therefore national understanding of threat from County Lines.
• Work with the Regional Analyst to better identify the CL threat across police force boundaries, identify trends early and assist the NCLCC, regions and forces by highlighting the potential opportunities and best practice.
• Support Regional Drug and other Threat Groups who are impacted by the CL threat to ensure a regional response to the CL threat. 
• As required represent the NCLCC, County Line Regional network and own Region as a Regional CL lead in relevant national and regional forums.
• Coordinate and support the NCLCC Intensification weeks. Drive activity within their forces and regions in support of the identified 4P themes for intensification. Assist in the collation of plans, support coordination of activity and collation and dissemination of returns.

The NWROCU leads the policing response across the region posed by serious and organised crime in Cumbria, Lancashire, Merseyside, Cheshire, Greater Manchester and North Wales. The NWROCU provides the vital link from national capabilities and expertise to local policing and knowledge, enabling the North West region to deliver the Government’s Serious and Organised Crime strategy and to protect communities from harm.

The post is subject to an initial secondment of two years reviewable based on continuous funding and performance.

Further developments in NWROCU’s capabilities are anticipated in the future.

Successful applicants working within NWROCU will be subject to MV (Management Vetting) and enhanced SC Vetting prior to taking up post.   
NWROCU is located in the Warrington area, close to good public transport links and the motorway network.  In cases where the commute to NWROCU is in excess of applicant’s current commute, excess travel will be paid. NWROCU is committed to ensuring that we have a work force that represents the communities we serve and we are keen to attract applications from under represented groups. 

Any advice or guidance regarding the posts can be obtained from T/DI Adam Norton on +441517777496 or   . 

Applications must have Home Force support, the level of support required must comply with local Force policy e.g. whether support required at ACC level and HR Support. Before starting an application, applicants must download the secondment support form, ensure it is completed in full and then upload to your application. 

Applicants will be prompted and applications will not proceed until this has been completed.

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