Experience

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  Home office

  Sept 2005 - Jan 2010

  As an Executive Officer, I managed six direct reports within the Complex Removals Team. This role required me to conduct performance reviews, review annual objectives, provide technical coaching and mentoring and (where necessary) follow the organisation's disciplinary procedures. Outside of the day-to-day people management responsibilities, I attended quarterly strategic meetings with senior managers from across United Kingdom, cascading key information to my reports to ensure they could relate their individual performance to the overall performance of the Home Office. Show less This role called for me to assist Immigration Officers with enquiries regarding passengers who had been prevented from entering the UK. Key tasks included conducting Passport Control duties with passengers, searching passengers and their baggage, conducting initial interviews with asylum seekers, immigration offenders and unaccompanied minors and fingerprinting individuals who had breached immigration regulations. I also assisted with the repatriation of British Nationals returning to the UK, processing their return and ensuring they were handled in accordance with the relevant organisational guidelines whilst ensuring they were treated fairly and respectfully at all times.In addition to these key responsibilities, I liaised with other government departments, collaborating with foreign Law Enforcement agencies and government departments and assisting them in their efforts to locate and detain individuals. Show less

  • Executive Officer

    Sept 2007 - Jan 2010

  • Assistant Immigration Officer

    Sept 2005 - Sept 2007
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  United kingdom immigration enforcement

  Jan 2010 - Sept 2018

  Immigration officer

  As part of the Criminal & Financial Investigation Team, I am involved in the investigation of organised crime groups operating across the United Kingdom whilst collaborating with foreign Law Enforcement agencies and government departments and assisting colleagues as Exhibits Officer for larger scale investigations into organised crime groups.As an Expert Court witness, I obtain warrants, give evidence and provide expert testimony and complete prosecution files for offender court appearances. Forgery investigation activity involves assessing forged documents and provide statements for court hearings. I am a qualified Personal Safety Trainer which involves designing and delivering skills-based lessons, covering policy and legality around use of force, arrest and detention. I also Mentor new entrants to Immigration Enforcement and support their onboarding. I am actively engaged in continued professional development, completing internally-accredited professional development regarding role-specific skills, including forgery investigation, border passport control, telecommunications investigation. Show less

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  Border force

  Sept 2018 - now

  Border force higher officer