Mounted Inspector

Mounted Inspectors provide effective management of the mounted unit through the management of resources to enable the delivery of a responsive and visible police service to incidents, public order and crime.

• Manage mounted facilities (stables, horses, equipment and vehicles) to ensure the provision of suitable and legally compliant equipment in line with force policy, guidance and operational demands.
• Attend event and operational planning meetings to identify available resource, and resource requirements to develop effective deployment plans.
• Tender contracts for vets, feed and forage to enable cost effective service delivery.
• Develop collaborative working relationships with key stakeholders and delivery partners to deliver a smooth and integrated response and service for operations and/or events.
• Manage budgets for overtime and spend for mounted resources to meet organisational financial objectives.
• Purchase horses; cognisant of size, temperament, breed, age and health to provide an effective mounted policing service.
• Arrange training for mounted officers and horses to ensure national competency compliance.
• Recruit suitable mounted candidates to ensure continuity of staff and enable workforce planning.

Prior education and experience:

• Completed Standard Equitation (SEC) Course
• Completed the Mounted Public Order Commanders course

Skills:

• Able to plan to short and medium-term cycles, to coordinate a range of activities appropriately within the function, to match these to available resources, and to identify and mitigate known risks to delivery.
• Able to develop and motivate a team and create strong engagement of individuals with their personal and team objectives and with Force values, behaviours and strategic priorities.
• Able to develop and implement an effective stakeholder relationship plan which develops trusts and enables contributions.
• Able to engage a variety of audiences through a range of media to inform and/or persuade.
• Skilled in setting, monitoring and enabling high performance against team and individual performance objectives.
• Able to identify potential applications of new or improved practices related to own area of work to improve ways of working.
• Able to contribute to resource planning, to manage financial budgets and utilise commercial acumen to make risk-based decisions that deliver effective outcomes within the resources allocated.
• Able to seek out and identify a range of information to identify patterns, trends and options, to solve multifaceted and complex problems.
• Skilled in coaching and mentoring to enable appropriate career and professional development.
• Able to manage the delivery of change initiatives within own team.
• Able to maintain personal resilience and wellbeing in complex and challenging situations and enable others to develop their own personal resilience and wellbeing.

• Maintain an up to date understanding of College of Policing Guidance, best practice and any local policy applicable to the operational police context.
• Maintain and update key knowledge, understanding and skills relating to criminology, legislation, policy and practice across all functional policing areas of operational policing.
• Maintain knowledge and understanding of new approaches identified by evidence based policing research and problem solving, test and synthesise these into working practice, championing innovation and changes to practice.
• Maintain a working knowledge and understanding of new and evolving crime threats and priorities and current best practice to tackle these in order to enable a pro-active and preventative approach.
• Complete all annual and mandatory training including for example, the Standard Equitation Course (SEC), fitness tests, personal safety training, first aid, and protecting information.

Not Applicable.

• Mounted Constable
• Mounted Sergeant
• Mounted Unit Command
• NPoCC Mercury Profile – Mounted Police Instructor 351 v2
• NPoCC Mercury Profile – Mounted Officer – Public Order 53 v1