Vacant job

The Swedish Customs Authority (Tullverket) has the mission to stop or seriously disrupt organized crime and to prevent the illegal import of narcotics and doping substances, alcohol, tobacco, weapons, and other goods that threaten life, health, and the environment.

The Customs Authority primarily consists of the Control Division, the Customs Crime Division, the Intelligence Division, and the Collection Division. The work spans the entire chain from intelligence, analysis, and control to the completion of preliminary investigations.

The Customs Crime Division focuses on combating customs-related crime such as smuggling, economic crime, and environmental crime, with priority given to efforts against large-scale and/or organized crime. Operations are conducted within the framework of criminal investigations or through measures leading to investigations. The purpose is to bring masterminds behind criminal activities to justice, reduce the profitability of criminal operations, and significantly disrupt criminal activities. We contribute to reducing the number of criminal networks engaged in narcotics, alcohol, or tobacco smuggling, or economic crime.

The Customs Crime Division consists of a national IT and Technology Centre responsible for covert coercive measures, surveillance techniques, and IT forensics, the Customs Laboratory, and four Customs Crime Units 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. Your workplace will be at the Customs Crime Unit South.

The position is located at the investigation duty of the Customs Crime Unit South, whose primary task is to handle the initial investigative measures in cases involving persons deprived of liberty.

About the Position

Within the Customs Authority's crime prevention efforts, criminal investigators at the Customs Crime Unit have the main task of investigating crimes led by the Customs Authority's preliminary investigation leader or a public prosecutor.

Criminal investigators at the Customs Authority's crime prevention actively participate in the operational phase of the preliminary investigation and work, among other things, to:

• Investigate crimes, conduct interviews with suspects and witnesses, collect investigation material, review seizures, and verify evidence
• Structure, interpret, and process information
• Compile preliminary investigation protocols
• Contact legal representatives/lawyers and interpreters, and in some cases, maintain social contact with relatives of suspects
• Participate in various forms of assistance requests and collaborate with other functions within the Customs Authority as well as with other authorities, both Swedish and foreign
• Participate in coercive measures work when necessary, such as house searches and bringing individuals in for questioning
• Assist the prosecutor in court hearings when required

Are you the one we are looking for?

We are looking for you who have:

• Post-secondary education in law, intelligence/analysis, social sciences, or criminology, or alternatively other education acquired within the Customs Authority
• Well-documented and current experience in practical investigative work, or alternatively experience in practical work within a law enforcement authority that the Customs Authority deems relevant for the position
• Good ability to express yourself in Swedish and English, both orally and in writing
• Swedish driver's license, class B for passenger cars with manual transmission
• Swedish citizenship

It is meritorious if you have:

• Experience in criminal investigative work within the Customs Authority
• Well-documented experience in the Customs Crime Division's operational area
• Training in conflict management (OC, baton, and service weapon)
• Experience working in the Customs Authority's reporting system BUS
• Good knowledge of iBase, Analyst's Notebook, the Office package, and other information systems
• Experience working with phone tapping in Cellebrite and XAMN
• Language skills in addition to Swedish and English

Personal Qualities

• Flexibility and thus the ability to prioritize and adapt to new demands and the outside world.
• Stable and stress-resistant, ability to work under pressure and effectively handle rapidly emerging situations.
• Motivation and initiative-taking.
• Social competence and good judgment, should be a good representative for the Customs Authority both internally and externally.
• Very good teamwork skills, both with colleagues and others.
• Responsibility-taking.
• Analytical ability and a developed sense for structure and methodology.
• Structured working method, good ability to define boundaries and prioritize within a given assignment.

We will place great emphasis on personal qualities.

We offer you

By working at the Customs Authority, you have an important job where you contribute to a safe and secure society. We value well-being and competence development highly, and we strive to ensure that as an employee, you can have a good balance between work and leisure. With us, you get secure employment conditions as well as part of our benefits, which include among other things health care subsidies, subsidized medicines, and good vacation and pension conditions.

Other:

Reference number: TV-2026-16503.

Location: Malmö.

Employment type: Fixed-term contract, latest until 2027-06-18.

Domestic travel occurs, and sometimes international travel.

The work involves inconvenient working hours (evenings, weekends).

Individual salary setting applies.

Start date: By agreement, preferably August 31, 2026.

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

The Customs Authority values the qualities that are added to the operations through having an even gender distribution and ethnic diversity.

For more information and application

Information about the position is provided by Marcel Gabara, Group Manager Customs Crime, tel. 042-19 86 70. For questions about the recruitment process, you can call the Customs Authority's HR support tel. 060-67 25 85. Union representatives are Sandra Sånesson for OFR-P/TULL-KUST, tel. 040-661 29 96, and Lena Edehag for SACO-S, tel. 08–456 58 68.

Your application with a cover letter and CV/resume must reach the Customs Authority by August 2nd. You apply via the electronic application form below.

We decline all contact with staffing and recruitment agencies as well as sellers of job advertisements.