Detective Sergeant - Prevention Services, Disruptions Team in London

Post Title: Prevention Services, Disruptions Team Detective Sergeant

Contract: Permanent

Rank/Grade: DS

Directorate/Department: Prevention Services / NLF

Location: GYE

Salary: (As per national pay scales)

Description of Department: Report Fraud is the National reporting and analysis service for Cyber Crime and Fraud. The Prevention Services Disruptions team is responsible for analysing intelligence from fraud and cyber victims across the UK, exploiting such information to help alert, educate and protect the public, find new and effective ways to engineer out the threat from fraud and cyber and positively influence the UK’s enforcement resources to tackle fraud and cybercrime. Prevention Services sits within National Lead Force (NLF) as part of the Report Fraud reporting service. Report Fraud is primarily responsible for analysing and disseminating victim reports of Fraud and Cybercrime to the relevant police force for investigation, with the aim of determining the most appropriate 4P response (Pursue, Protect, Prevent and Prepare).

Description of The Role: An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated supervisor with a keen interest in intelligence development and Fraud/Cyber investigation, to join the Disruptions Team, within Prevention Services, Report Fraud. The role is versatile, generally operating within core hours Monday to Friday and requires a high degree of trust and confidentiality. The Disruptions Team works in partnership with the private and public sectors to combat and disrupt fraud as it manifests across legitimate services or networks which includes the Internet, social media, and the telephone network. The team consists of a Detective Sergeant and both police officers and police staff investigators. The team works from referrals, Report Fraud complaints and the proactive identification of enablers with the aim of disrupting websites, email addresses, social media accounts and telephone numbers being used by offenders to facilitate fraud and cybercrime. The team uses a wide variety of open-source tools to research and investigate such enablers, with the aim of disrupting them to prevent further victim harm and loss.

As a supervisor on the team your core responsibilities will include:

• Foster an inclusive and psychologically safe working environment to enable the team to thrive.
• Providing supervision, prioritisation and quality assurance of the team’s day to day activities to maintain the legitimacy of the team’s work.
• Increasing team performance to disrupt more enablers of fraud and cyber-crime.
• Developing and maintaining effective working relationships with internet, telecommunications and social media service providers.
• Development of the teams technological and proactive capabilities.
• Development of disruptions capabilities across forces and Regional Organised Crime Units.
• Maintain continuous professional development of your own skills and knowledge, as well as that of the team, to ensure the ability to meet and anticipate developing and future threats.
• Presenting to forces and other stakeholders to promote the work of the Prevention and Disruptions team.

Essential Criteria:

• The candidate will be a substantive Detective Sergeant.
• A proven investigative background and a good knowledge of investigation practices, processes and techniques.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate at all levels with both internal and external partners and stakeholders with a proven ability to build and maintain working relationships.
• An understanding of national fraud strategies and their implementation at regional and local level.
• Must be self‑motivated and enthusiastic with the ability to build, support and develop a high‑performing team.
• Present at meetings and other stakeholder events to represent the team at a local, regional and national level.
• Proven capability to generate new ideas, propose innovative approaches and contribute to improved ways of working.
• The candidate must be vetted to or willing to be vetted to MV/SC level.

Desirable Criteria:

• A sound understanding of fraud and cybercrime threats affecting the UK.
• Good presentation skills with experience in delivering presentations to key stakeholders and at training events.
• Experience and/or knowledge of intelligence and its application to operational policing.
• Experience and/or knowledge of Cybercrime and disruptions tactics.

The application and interview will be tested under Level 2 of the College of Policing Competency and Values Framework. The closing date for applications is 31/07/2026 @2359 hours. This vacancy is open only to those who have the right to work in the UK. The City of London Police is keen to promote flexible working and will, subject to operational policing requirements, proactively consider all applications to work flexibly. The City of London Police is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.