Criminal Investigator for the Swedish Customs Criminal Investigation Unit

Do you want a responsible and interesting job where you can contribute to creating a safe and secure society? Then a job within the Swedish Customs Criminal Investigation Unit is for you!

The Swedish Customs has the mission to limit organized and large-scale crime and to prevent the illegal importation of narcotics and doping agents, alcohol, tobacco, weapons, and other goods that threaten life, health, and the environment. The Customs aims to reduce the number of criminal networks involved in drug, alcohol, or tobacco smuggling or economic crime.

The Criminal Investigation Department is responsible for the Customs' criminal investigation activities and technical intelligence gathering. The operations work within the framework of preliminary investigations of crimes or actions that will lead to preliminary investigations of crimes aimed at prosecuting the masterminds behind criminal activities, reducing the profitability of crime, and significantly disrupting criminal activities.

The Criminal Investigation Department consists of a national IT and technology center responsible for covert coercive measures, surveillance technology, and IT forensics. The Customs laboratory and four criminal investigation units are responsible for their respective geographical areas: south, west, east, and north. The units are divided into operational areas: surveillance, investigation of serious crimes, and investigation of volume crimes.

About the Position

Within the Customs' crime prevention, criminal investigators in the Criminal Investigation Unit primarily investigate crimes led by the Customs' preliminary investigation leaders or public prosecutors.

You will be part of the Criminal Investigation Unit's Crime Duty. This means you will actively participate in the operational phase of the preliminary investigation. Your primary task will consist of handling urgent cases involving detained individuals by:

• Conducting interrogations (with suspects and witnesses)
• Participating in searches and escorting individuals for interrogation when necessary
• Ensuring contact with representatives/lawyers and interpreters
• Collecting investigative materials
• Structuring, analyzing, and processing the investigative materials
• Compiling preliminary investigation protocols
• Overseeing social contacts with relatives of suspects
• Assisting prosecutors in court hearings when applicable

In addition, you will work with volume crime investigations. You may also collaborate with other functions within both the Customs and other authorities, both Swedish and foreign.

As we operate within a large geographical area, planned trips with overnight stays are common.

We are looking for someone who has:

• Post-secondary education in law, social sciences, criminology, or other academic education deemed relevant by the Customs. Alternatively, completed the Customs' crime prevention basic training or basic training in another crime-fighting authority that the Customs assesses as equivalent, with passing results.
• Relevant and current experience in investigations or relevant and current experience in other practical work within an authority, which the Customs deems relevant for the position.
• Good computer skills
• Good knowledge of Swedish and English and the ability to express yourself well in both spoken and written form
• Swedish citizenship
• Swedish driver's license, category B

It is advantageous if you have:

• Training in criminal investigation
• Experience working with crime prevention within an authority
• Language skills beyond Swedish and English
• Completed and approved weapons training (pistol)
• Completed and approved conflict management training (including communication, self-defense, OC spray, and baton)

Personal Qualities

• Responsible
• Proactive
• Stress-resistant (You have the ability to work under pressure and effectively manage rapidly arising situations)
• Flexible
• Structured (good ability to delineate and prioritize within a given assignment)
• Good collaborative skills (both with colleagues and other parties)
• Good judgment (You should be a good representative for the Customs, both internally and externally)

We will place great emphasis on personal qualities!

We offer you

As an employee at the Customs, you have an important job where you contribute to a safe and secure society. We highly value well-being and professional development and strive for you as an employee with us to have a good balance between work and leisure. With us, you will receive secure employment conditions, and our benefits include wellness grants, subsidized medications, and good vacation and pension terms.

Other

Reference number: TV-2026-01432.

Work location: Stockholm.

The employment is a permanent position and begins with a six-month probationary period. Individual salary setting applies.

Domestic travel occurs, and limited foreign travel may also occur.

The position may involve on-call duty.

We have high demands on our employees' security and confidentiality awareness. Before a hiring decision, you will undergo a drug test and background check. Security clearance with register control according to the Security Protection Act is conducted before employment as the position is classified. The Customs is a total defense authority, and upon hiring, you may be assigned to the Customs in case of war.

The Customs values the qualities that contribute to the organization by having a balanced gender distribution and ethnic diversity.

For more information and application

Inquiries about the position can be made to Joacim Björlin-Axeling, group manager of the criminal investigation unit, at 08-456 57 48. For questions about the recruitment process, you can call the Customs' HR support at 060-67 25 85. Union representatives are for OFR-P/TULL-KUST, Mari Höglund 08-456 58 30, for SACO-S, Lena Edehag, 08-456 58 68.

Your application must be received by the Customs no later than March 1. Apply by attaching your CV and answering the selection questions. You apply via the electronic application form below.

We kindly ask for no contact with staffing and recruitment companies or advertisers of job ads.

The Customs is a government authority that controls the flow of goods across Sweden's borders. With the vision that only approved goods should pass the border, we prevent illegal goods from entering the country and contribute to a safer society. We simplify trade with other countries and lay the foundation for increased growth and competition on equal terms. The Customs, founded in 1636, currently has about 2,600 employees and is led by the Director General of Customs, Johan Norrman.