Regional Business Support Assistant - South West Regional Organised Crime Unit (SWROCU) in Exeter

The South West Regional Organised Crime Unit (SWROCU) is seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Regional Business Support Assistant to join our Business Team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role within a dynamic and fast‑paced environment, providing essential administrative and business support to a range of specialist teams across the Regional Organised Crime Unit.

As a Business Support Assistant, you will contribute to the effective delivery of vital services that support our operational capabilities in tackling serious and organised crime across the South West region. Working as part of a supportive and professional team, you will be required to manage a varied workload, demonstrate excellent organisational skills, and build effective working relationships with colleagues across the organisation.

The role offers the opportunity to develop a broad range of skills, work both collaboratively and independently, and gain valuable experience within a unique and rewarding area of policing. We are looking for individuals who are proactive, adaptable, and committed to delivering a high standard of customer service and administrative support.

SWROCU is a collaboration of police officers and police staff from the five South West regional forces. We’re part of a national network of nine ROCUs covering England and Wales. We have more than 20 capabilities that staff and officers work in to pursue offenders, protect and prepare individuals and organisations, and prevent people from engaging in serious and organised crime.

Our capabilities are here to advise, to assist, or to fully adopt investigations. We work with local forces and national partners to target and disrupt criminals posing the greatest risk of Serious and Organised Criminality (SOC). This includes offenders involved in cyber threats, economic crime, drug conspiracies, modern slavery and human trafficking, and child sexual abuse and exploitation.

We’re looking for committed people with the right skillset – or ambition to develop that skillset – to join us.

What we can offer you:

• Flexible working – with many of our roles we can be flexible regarding working hours.
• Continuous professional development – we encourage and support career growth, giving you the opportunity of a flourishing career.
• Well‑being support – we have many support mechanisms in place to assist in improving your personal health and wellbeing.
• Other perks include discounts and savings for you and your family on retail, dining out, holidays and theme parks to name just a few.

Skills, experience and qualifications required:

• Must be computer literate with experience of using Microsoft packages such as Word, Excel, Outlook.
• Experience of collating information.
• Ability to research matters and write appropriate reports and emails.
• Effective communicator (face to face, over Teams and in writing).
• Ability to work on own initiative.
• Hold a driving licence.

This post is subject to a higher security clearance at MV and SC – Management Vetting and Security Clearance Level. To be eligible to apply for this role you must have a five-year ‘checkable history’ in the UK – ideally this means that you would have been resident in the UK for the last five years.

In accordance with the National Vetting Policy, SWROCU are committed to safeguarding and operate safer recruitment processes, to ensure a police service that employees are proud to work for because they feel safe, valued and part of a happy and supportive work environment. All employees and volunteers therefore will be subject to background checks including vetting and references.

SWROCU is working hard to increase diversity and inclusion where communities are currently under‑represented including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities, people of all ages, abilities, faiths, religions, gender, LGBTQ+ communities and those from disadvantaged or marginalised backgrounds who share our values and wish to make a difference to the communities we serve. All applications will be treated on merit, based on the evidence provided in your application and suitability for the role you have applied for.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications. We encourage interested candidates to apply as soon as possible to ensure their application is considered.