We are currently looking for experienced Senior Criminal Enforcement Officers to join our Investigation and Disruption Function within the Safety and Surveillance group.
The MHRA is transforming. Through enabling innovation, making the right judgements of the benefits and risks of medical products and forging the right partnerships in the UK and internationally, it aims to deliver world class regulation and improved outcomes for UK patients.
Within a week of working here, your day could look like this: identify, tackle and where appropriate prosecute those responsible for criminal offending. Our activities are generated through an intelligence-led approach, focusing on the key threats to the UK and managing risk to patients.
Key responsibilities:
· Delivering, directly influencing the delivery of, and contributing to the delivery of impactful strategic and/or tactical criminal threat reduction interventions.
· Leading complex investigations, intelligence operations, initiatives, or projects (in keeping with allocated functional area) ensuring these are carried out thoroughly, efficiently and in accordance with MHRA policy, relevant legislation and good practice.
· Delivering allocated capabilities to the highest professional standards, actively encouraging, supporting and participating in a culture of continuous improvement, and modelling civil service and corporate values and behaviours.
· Leading, managing, supervising or participating in multi-functional/multi-disciplinary teams to develop and deliver the Unit’s threat reduction outcomes. This may include task-specific teams, cross-functional teams, small project delivery teams and teams comprised of direct reports
· Leading and supporting criminal justice interventions, gathering evidence and preparing and submitting case files and other documentation to reduce, remove or disrupt identified threats
· Devising, leading, coordinating, supporting and delivering innovative non-criminal justice interventions under the PREVENT and PROTECT response strands to bring about high-quality strategic threat reduction outcomes.
· Maintaining the integrity and reputation of CEU operational activity by managing the security and accuracy of intelligence, evidence and information, maintaining confidentiality, sensitivity and a duty of care as required and appropriately managing other operational risk.
· Lead, own and deliver projects or portfolio responsibilities as directed to improve and enhance the operational effectiveness of the CEU and the wider Agency.
Our successful candidate will have the following:
Significant recent experience in one or more of the following areas:
· Conducting complex criminal investigations
· Conducting all-source intelligence assessment, including the use of structured analytical techniques.
· Collecting and developing all-source intelligence on strategic and tactical threats, including from human intelligence sources.
· Delivering internet intelligence and investigation and OSINT collection capabilities
· Supervising and quality assuring the delivery of multiple operational and business support capabilities
· Applying the 4P strategic response framework to identify and deliver innovative non-criminal justice interventions.
Technical Criteria:
The requirement is for one or more of the following:
· Formal accreditation under the Professionalising Investigation Programme (PIP) 2 (investigator) or evidence substantial experience of investigating complex crime, or demonstrable competence to ‘practitioner’ level against core GCFP professional standards.
· Recognised recent formal training in intelligence assessment and analysis (GIAT or equivalent) or demonstrable competence to ‘highly proficient’ against the PHIA professional development framework
· Recognised recent formal training as a CHIS controller or demonstrable competence sufficient to perform the statutory duties under s29(5)(b) of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.
Closing date: 5th May 2026
To find out more and apply, please visit: https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cgi?SID=b3duZXJ0eXBlPWZhaXImc2VhcmNoc29ydD1zY29yZSZwYWdlY2xhc3M9Sm9icyZqb2JsaXN0X3ZpZXdfdmFjPTE5OTQ2MTkmcGFnZWFjdGlvbj12aWV3dmFjYnlqb2JsaXN0Jm93bmVyPTUwNzAwMDAmc2VhcmNocGFnZT0xJnVzZXJzZWFyY2hjb250ZXh0PTE4NDM4MTM4OCZyZXFzaWc9MTc3NjY4OTE0Ni1mN2RjNDA3YTQwN2RhMjczYjA3NzFmNWU1YzllNTdkNjc3MDVmNzdi