Welcome
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We are delighted that you are considering joining us in the Home Office working across our two law enforcement commands, Border Force and Immigration Enforcement, that together form the new Borders and Enforcement capability for the department.
Border Force’s mission is to protect the public through a secure border, facilitate legitimate travel and trade and adapt to face the challenges of an increasingly uncertain world. This is achieved in a variety of ways including through the immigration and customs checks carried out by our staff at ports and airports. Immigration Enforcement is responsible for preventing abuse, tracking immigration offenders and increasing compliance with immigration law. It works with partners such as the police and the National Crime Agency to regulate migration, in line with government policy, and tackle organised immigration crime, while supporting economic growth. Our officers across both commands operate together with a number of key partners at over 140 sea and air ports across the UK and overseas. Our combined resources make us the second largest law enforcement organisation in the UK.
Our Intelligence Directorate is a newly formed team that will support both Border Force and Immigration Enforcement as the Borders and Enforcement capability, providing a single operational and strategic focus for a range of intelligence activity that aims to protect national security and fiscal revenue whilst disrupting illegal migration, including human trafficking, drug and illicit goods smuggling through maximising the use of data. The role of Intelligence Director offers an exciting opportunity to demonstrate strategic and transformational leadership in a challenging and rewarding environment, building a stronger intelligence capability and driving forward our programmes/projects designed to step up our technology solutions that will help deliver the government’s published Border 2025 Strategy.
This role will be a pivotal part of the Borders and Enforcement Senior Leadership Team. Line managed at DG level, it will lead head counts of circa 1500/1600 staff. The incumbent will also manage a wide network of senior stakeholders including exposure to Ministers, Permanent Secretaries and other government officials. In the Home Office, we are dedicated to promoting equality, valuing diversity and being inclusive by instinct. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds to apply to become part of our team including, in particular, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds. This is a genuinely fascinating opportunity and if you believe you possess the skills and attributes we are seeking, we hope you apply.
Paul Lincoln – Director General, Border Force
Tyson Hepple – Director General, Immigration Enforcement
Background
The organisational structure of the Home Office is changing, with the launch of a major transformation programme ‘One Home Office’ which considers our values, our culture and our organisation.
The Borders and Enforcement capability will deliver services to the central STARS function, all three missions, as well as to customers and users of our services. This includes responsibility for the delivery of frontline activity – inland enforcement (including criminal investigation) and at the border – and activity to return immigration and foreign national offenders. It will work collaboratively with the Migration and Borders mission, that will set key outcomes from policy development through to operational delivery.