Mounted Sergeant

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

• Supervise the mounted team duties on a daily basis to ensure effective performance and results.
• Provide daily team briefings on intelligence and information and team roles and responsibilities for the day’s duty to support the achievement of safe and successful patrols, events and/or tasking.
• Plan the mounted resources for events to support the achievements of operational objectives.
• Monitor and assess the performance and professional development of the team to ensure operational competency and team resilience.
• Support the welfare and wellbeing of officers by providing a timely response to any issues to enable a motivated and healthy workforce.

Prior education and experience:

• Completed the Mounted Public Order Commanders course.

Skills:

• Strong communication skills with the ability to set out logical arguments clearly, adapting language, form and message to meet the needs of different people/audiences.
• 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 review and assess own, individual and team performance against expected standards, providing objective and effective feedback and ensuring corrective actions are taken where necessary.
• Able to coach and mentor colleagues to enable appropriate career and professional development.
• Able to plan ahead and allocate work appropriately within the team.
• Able to identify key stakeholders, understand potential roles and to take appropriate steps to understand their needs and concerns and develop excellent working relationships.
• Problem solving skills with the ability to identify cause and effect and develop a course of action, drawing on evidence base, designed to target root causes, mitigate risks and manage impacts.
• Able to critically question and identify potential opportunities to enhance efficiency and/or effectiveness across own team.
• Able to identify, analyse, and manage risk to inform balanced, proportionate evidence-based decisions.
• Able to manage the introduction of new processes or ways of working at team level.
• Skilled in using specialised software related to own area of work to extract, analyse, plan and report on data.
• Able to develop and maintain professional resilience and wellbeing in oneself and others in dealing with complex and challenging situations.

• 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, Standard Equitation Course (SEC), fitness tests, personal safety training, first aid, and protecting information.
• Maintain a working knowledge and understanding of Public Order command.

Not Applicable.

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