Financial Investigator and Confiscator (London Regional Asset Recovery Team)
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Job Title: Financial Investigator & Confiscator
Salary: £32,627 to £41,072 plus £2,930 location allowance. You will receive £32,627 the band minimum. Progress to the band maximum of £41,072 will be via incremental progression.
Location: Central London
Make sure criminals only get what they deserve
As a Financial Investigator & Confiscator, you’ll make sure that crime doesn’t pay. As part of our London Regional Asset Recovery Team (RART), you’ll carry out investigations to find criminal assets and ensure they’re confiscated. It’s a rewarding role where you’ll get to work with highly experienced officers and a range of outside agencies. And every day, you’ll be helping to remove the proceeds of crime from top-level organised criminals.
A skilled and NDA-accredited professional, you’ll have the expertise to conduct high-level financial investigations. You’ll identify the proceeds of crime and make sure these assets are recovered and confiscated from the criminals. Your role will bring you into contact with organisations such as the National Crime Agency and the Charities Commission, and you’ll also work with high-profile units such as the Serious Organised Crime Command.
To conduct complex financial investigations you’ll need relevant experience and proven expertise. You should know how to interrogate open source databases, analyse data and apply for restraint and confiscation orders. With awareness of legislative and policy requirements, you’ll be able to use investigative powers to disrupt organised and violent crime.
To apply, please visit our website to download a role specific information pack. Applications will be via a detailed CV and online application form.
Completed applications must be returned by 23.55pm on Tuesday 12th March 2019,
We view diversity as fundamental to our success. To tackle today’s complex policing challenges, we need a workforce made up from all of London’s communities. Applications from across the community are therefore essential.
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Essential Criteria:
- Driving Licence, maximum of 6 points essential
- Qualification - Accreditation is essential
- Accredited, or willing to undertake, accreditation to NCA standards through FIO and FI PDP and CPD thereafter. Role requires an ability to conduct methodical and incremental open source financial enquiries culminating in the conversion of financial intelligence to an evidential format through application of production orders to financial and other institutions. Capacity to undertake complex analysis of financial products, excellent communication skills for liaison with defence and prosecution lawyers and present evidence at court. Competent to identify intelligence and evidential opportunities from search of premises and use appropriate legislation at relevant stages of proceedings.
- Successful applicants will require competence in the use of IT including Microsoft Word, Excel and Power-point. Interrogation of MPS databases including IIP, CRIS, CRIMINT+ and Area. Competence to use data bases from other providers including credit reference agencies, Companies House and HM Land Registry.
- Daily activity will typically require effective use of financial investigation/confiscation powers to disrupt organised and violent crime, Interrogation of open source databases including Experian, Equifax, Land Registry and Companies House. Application to financial institutions under DPA and by service of production orders. Access and analysis of SARS via the Arena database. Apply for and service restraint/confiscation orders as recorded on the Joint Asset Recovery Database (JARD). Compliance with legislative and policy requirements including MetSec and CPIA. Monthly access to the Financial Investigators Support System (FISS) to maintain CPD. Conduct of Cash Seizures to maintain CPD as required by NCA.
- Band C staff on the London RART will have direct influence on overall performance of the London RART and SC&O7 Criminal Finance Teams. Work to court directed time-tables for prosecutions and three monthly reviews of restraint orders. Dealing with professionals and subject matter experts who are specialists in law, finance and other niche areas of expertise (for example valuation of high value assets). Dealing with prosecution and defence lawyers in the pursuit of civil and criminal proceedings. Dealing with suspects, victims and witnesses who may at the time be in a state of crisis or confusion.
Disability Confident Statement
The Met is committed to being an inclusive employer with a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from ethnic minority groups and females.
As a Disability Confident employer, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations. If you consider yourself to have access, workplace or reasonable adjustment requirements that need to be accommodated, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence and will not affect any recruitment decisions.
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