Red Snapper Recruitment are recruiting for a Disclosure Officer in the North West of England.
Red Snapper Recruitment are recruiting for a Disclosure Officer for a specialist law enforcement collaboration that tackles serious and organised crime across force boundaries in the North West of England and North Wales.
Location: Warrington (hybrid)
Contract: 6 months initially
Salary: £17.23 – £20.14 PAYE per hour
Closing Date: 02/12/2026
Vetting: NPPV3 and NCA clearance
General Responsibilities
- To perform the role of case builder, preparing complex MG files and schedules in support of level 2 Investigations into Serious Organised Crime on behalf of the NW Region. Conduct the duties of Officer in the case, telecommunications officer, exhibits officer and disclosure as and when necessary and to review records and documentation obtained during the course of such investigations to ensure legal and procedural compliance and to identify further investigative opportunities.
- Have individual responsibility for allocated investigations and actions, multi-task in different roles across a number of complex investigations into Serious and Organised Crime and manage workload without supervision identifying urgent matters in order to ensure that they are dealt with expeditiously and / or brought to the attention of the Detective Inspector through the appropriate line management.
- Completion of files and associated paperwork in respect of prosecutions. Where directed by the Detective Inspector act as the case officer in complex and serious crime investigations submitting time bound full and complete files of evidence to national standards for review by the Crown Prosecution Service and attend judicial proceedings to give evidence if required.
- Support Operational activity when suspects are arrested, including the seizure and handling of exhibits to evidential standards, interviewing witnesses, victims and suspects, taking statements and other follow up enquiries. Support witness management including contacting and interviewing witnesses and supporting witnesses throughout the criminal justice process.
- Support the warrants process including preparing paperwork in relation to obtaining search warrants from the courts in conjunction with police officers, execute search warrants and undertake searches.
Person Specification
Essential
- Disclosure
- Proven inter-personal and communication skills, both oral and written.
- The post holder must be able to write and produce comprehensive letters and reports to a high standard.
- Ability to plan and organise, manage priorities, balancing their workload and work to deadlines monitoring delivery to ensure required standard is met.
- The post holder must be willing and able to undertake relevant courses to enable them to conduct criminal investigations together with the ability to interview witnesses and victims and interview suspects. They must have or be able to work towards gaining a sound and accurate working knowledge of legislation and procedures relevant to the documenting, handling and storage of exhibits, the responsibilities and procedures in respect of disclosure.
- Ability to work in a small team with minimum supervision.
Desirable
- File management.
- Proven and well evidenced experience in an investigative role and is able to understand the complexities and sensitivities of crime investigation.
- Liaising with CPS, legal representatives and other agencies involved in crime investigations.
- Experience in the roles of exhibits, and telecommunications and outside enquiries on live investigations.
- PEACE trained.
- Knowledge of major incident room procedures.
If this role is not for you but you do know somebody who would be interested, please refer them. We have a referral bonus scheme and will pay £75, in retail vouchers of your choice, for referrals who are not already known to us.
Due to the high volume of applications received, if you do not hear from us within 7 working days, I am afraid your application has been unsuccessful.
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