The CT Prepare Team is a small but dedicated team who’s focus is to prepare for terrorist attacks and reduce their impact for the whole of the Eastern Region. As such this role is open to officers from Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex.
If the worst happens, we want to be suitably prepared to allow us to respond as quickly and efficiently as possible. To help us prepare for attacks, we regularly test our methods by holding exercises and testing CT plans across the region.
We do this in partnership with other P’s of the CONTEST Strategy, emergency services, local and national government departments and the military. This helps us understand the way each organisation works so we can come together for a major incident and act as one.
The Prepare team also maintain a debriefing functionality to assist with learning from testing, exercising and real-life incidents and investigations which facilitates risk management in the future. They also play their part within the National Prepare portfolio sharing knowledge and learning whilst assisting with bigger regional and national exercises.
This is a varied and stimulating role like no other within CT or Front-Line Policing which requires the successful candidate to be a focused and motivated problem solver. Strong communication skills, experience of managing a busy workload and proven partnership working experience are favoured.
This is an agile role, as per ERSOU guidance, and the successful candidate will be required to attend and facilitate meetings, training and exercises across the Eastern Region and on occasions nationally. Although standard working hours are 0800-1600 Monday to Friday (no shifts) a flexible approach is required to support out of hours events including exercises and live incidents.
The successful candidate will be required to undertake the two year National Prepare Training Pathway which runs alongside usual daily business and will provide required training to a national standard. All other relevant training and support will be provided by the Prepare team.
