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The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has opened applications for its 2025 Trainee Investigators Programme.

Launched in 2018, the programme has run successfully for over six years, equipping trainees with the core skills necessary for a career investigating major crime.

Trainees receive hands-on investigation training and gain valuable, first-hand experience working alongside the SFO’s operational teams to tackle the largest and most complex economic crime cases in the UK. Successful applicants will work with and be offered guidance from some of the country’s most experienced investigators and lawyers.

The programme is open to anyone with an interest in the law, with applications accepted from 20 December 2024 to 12 January 2025. Since its creation, the scheme has welcomed over 100 trainees from all walks of life, including university graduates, career changers and individuals with a long-held interest in the law and criminal justice.

Serious Fraud Office Chief Investigator Mick Gallagher said: “Our Trainee Investigator Programme offers applicants the chance to work on the largest and most high-profile economic crime cases here in the UK.

“It allows people from all walks of life the opportunity to immerse themselves in fraud investigation training, equipping them with the core operational skills needed as they’re guided through the stages of an investigation.

“The feedback we receive from those who have completed the Programme in previous years has been overwhelmingly positive and we’re very proud of our training investigators.”

Applicants will be notified this Spring if they have been successful applying to the Programme. Graduates who successfully complete the 15-month Programme will be promoted to the role of Investigator.