National Enforcement
The National Environmental Crime Unit provides leadership across the Environment Agency Enforcement Community. Alongside our partner organisations, we look to tackle crime and environmental offending and reduce its impact on people, the environment and legitimate business.
We use intelligence and data to inform decision making and use our resources to focus on the most serious and organised criminality. We are home to the Joint Unit for Waste Crime (JUWC), Major Investigations and Disclosure and our accredited investigators lead on Financial Investigations removing assets made illegally.
We enable outcomes by providing specialist expertise across the enforcement community whilst ensuring that our people have the skills to deliver their enforcement role. We also manage the issuing of Rod licences and the enforcement of rod and line offences, have a specialist Illegal Waste Exports team and lead on the production and analysis of data to set Environment Agency priorities.
Climate Change is the biggest risk we face and is worsened by those who choose to act outside of Environmental Laws and Legislation. Within National Enforcement, we investigate and prosecute the very worst of environmental offending across the country, and sometimes far beyond. By bringing successful prosecutions against those committing and benefitting from environmental crime, we hope to ensure offenders are brought to justice and any financial gain redirected into improving our natural environment, making it a better place for people and wildlife.
Senior Environmental Crime Officer
As a Senior Environmental Crime Officer, you will work alongside our Senior Investigation Managers and Major Incident Room in leading investigations into the most serious and complex environmental crimes. Our investigations can be complex and varied in nature, often involving Organised Crime Groups, illegal waste exports and large scale fraud.
You will use your knowledge and experience to help mentor and develop the Environmental Crime Officers on the team and lead by example in driving investigations forward.
You will be responsible for coordinating all aspects of the investigations including RIPA applications, identifying lines of enquiry, reviewing intelligence, allocating actions, leading on searches, evidence gathering, interviews and presentation of cases to Legal, through to casefile preparation and ultimately, successful prosecution.
Our team is nationally dispersed however, travel will be required on occasions to complete enquiries. There is also a requirement to attend our Major Incident Room in Birmingham on a regular basis (approx. twice a month).
Environmental Crime Officer
Working alongside our Major Incident Room, Illegal Waste Exports Team and Investigation Managers, you will work within our National Environmental Crime Unit Investigations Team. Our investigations can be complex and varied in nature, often involving Organised Crime Groups, illegal waste exports and large scale fraud and are investigated by our remote team of Environmental Crime Officers dispersed across the country.
You will undertake enquiries such as interviews, surveillance operations, evidence gathering, analysing digital media devices, obtaining witness statements and helping identify lines of enquiry in order to help us build robust prosecution cases and bring environmental offenders to justice.
You will work both independently and alongside your National and Area Enforcement colleagues spread across the country in completing these enquiries, often working on a variety of different investigations at the same time.
Our team is nationally dispersed however, travel will be required on occasions to complete enquiries. There is also a requirement to attend our Major Incident Room in Birmingham on a regular basis (approx. twice a month)
Environmental Crime Officer and Senior Environmental Crime Officer roles provide a new and exciting challenge for anyone with a law enforcement background who may be looking to take their knowledge and experience into a new arena.