Intelligence

The Intelligence role is broken up into 2 job families: Operational Intelligence and Intelligence Analysis.

• Operational Intelligence teams receive and triage information relating to abuse of the immigration system, border security or criminality from many sources, whether this be on an individual or organised basis.

• Intelligence Analysis teams take known information and use various techniques to produce intelligence on the probability of future events.

All Home Office teams consider the most suitable response to the information they use, whether this be during a front line intervention, criminal investigation or sharing with partners across Intelligence and Law Enforcement.

What you could be doing

Jobs you could be doing in Intelligence include:

• Intelligence Officer – developing, evaluating and disseminating intelligence to drive operational activity. In this role you’ll produce high quality intelligence products to inform decision making or enable operational intervention. You’ll also build and maintain a network of internal and external partners to facilitate information sharing and achieve shared objectives.
• Intelligence Researcher – in this role you’ll typically work with Intelligence Officers to evaluate information and conduct research to create operational intelligence products. You’ll use the outputs of research to inform or support the development and publication of products and data.
• Intelligence Analyst – your work will assist in the targeting, disrupting and detection of border, immigration and/or document crime by analysing the available intelligence and information. You may lead on a specific piece of work or assessment, and support the investigation of organised immigration crime with crime analysis, exhibits and appearances in court as a professional witness.

The benefits of working in an Intelligence role at the Home Office

When you work with us you can benefit from:

• A Career Framework that helps intelligence practitioners define the skills, experience and standards required across each intelligence role. The frameworks helps staff to identify their career path and provides access to information on accelerated development opportunities in the process.
• A comprehensive accreditation programme which supports the continuous professional development of its members.
• Closely mapped standards with those elsewhere in UK Law Enforcement, creating transferable skills.
• A guided approach to Success Profiles which ensures consistence in recruitment activity and drives recruitment standards.
• Access to a wide community of intelligence professionals across Law Enforcement, Defence and Intelligence Agencies through the Knowledge Hub Networking site.
• Introduction of a Level 4 standard Intelligence Analysis Apprenticeship Scheme to help the profession strengthen capability and increase social mobility.