I’m really pleased to introduce myself as the new Head of the national JESIP Team. Increasing collaboration across, between and within responder organisations, and improving the joint effectiveness of our outcomes, are all themes I have been strongly committed to throughout my career in policing. So, working on JESIP is both an important challenge and a hugely inspiring opportunity for me.

But firstly, I want to say a huge thanks and a fond farewell to Carl Daniels, our outgoing Deputy SRO for JESIP, who many of you will know, and who has been absolutely instrumental in the development and delivery of JESIP for many years. Thankfully Carl will not be far away and will remain on hand to act as a key adviser for us. I wish Carl all the very best of luck in his new role.

We are very conscious as we begin our own JESIP work that we are very much building on the brilliant work of others, not least of all the work of Carl, Charis Taylor and other colleagues. Indeed, the recent review of the JESIP Doctrine, along with several other studies and official inquiries, has found that the policies and guidelines outlined by JESIP all remain very clear and relevant. What we need now is to build greater capacity, capability and resource behind both JESIP business as usual and transformation, in order to communicate, train, exercise and assure more often, so that JESIP is being used consistently by responders and responder organisations at incidents. We hope and expect that recruiting and forming the new national JESIP Team is very much the first step to achieving that.

We are equally keen to listen to and learn from practitioners and understand what you need from us to help make JESIP work better for you. So all of you in the emergency services and response sector can expect to hear a lot more from members of the JESIP Team in the months ahead when we will be talking to you more about:

• Promoting JESIP communications in your areas
  
• Supporting more and better JESIP training and exercising, including train the trainer events
  
• Embedding the refreshed JESIP Doctrine
  
• Running JESIP assurance programmes in your area
  
• Boosting the use of JOL
  
• And using all of this and more to build towards a point where JESIP becomes embedded at all levels, across all responder agencies.

That’s a big vision (and a big undertaking), but ultimately this is all about working more closely and more often with you as JESIP leads, JOL spocs and practitioners, to empower and inspire us all to achieve the JESIP outcomes of ‘working together, saving lives and reducing harm’. I am absolutely privileged and delighted to get that work underway.

Meet the team…

Chief Superintendent David Boyle
National JESIP lead for Strategy and Transformation

David has recently been appointed as Head of the new national JESIP Team. He joined Bedfordshire Police in 1996 and has worked in a variety of roles within the service and the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire tri-force collaboration area throughout his 28-year career, including responsibility for local policing, Specialist Operations Teams and civil contingencies. David is also a Specialist Strategic Firearms Commander, Gold Public Order Commander, Gold CBRN commander and Major Incident Gold commander.

Charis Taylor
JOL Coordinator

Charis joined the team in August 2018 from South West Ambulance Service where she has gained 24 years of experience working in the Emergency Operations Centre, Hazardous Area Response Team and EPRR department as the EPRR Officer for Interoperable Capabilities and Special Projects.

Inspector Jo Molyneux
Training and Exercising Lead

Jo has 21 years of policing experience having joined Essex Police in 2003. She has worked in a variety of roles both as a Detective and on the front line. Jo has spent the last 5 years as a Local Policing Inspector. Jo is now seconded full time to the JESIP Team and is leading work on Testing and Exercising.

Dan Forman
Communications and Engagement Lead

Dan is a communications and strategy consultant, specialising in home affairs and social policy. He is currently working with JESIP, the National Police Chiefs Council and Counter Terrorism Policing. He previously worked in the Civil Service and as a journalist, and has also worked for the Bank of England and UK Sport, as well as on a number of independent inquiries and reviews.

Clair Potter
Assurance and Embedding Lead

Clair has 17 years of policing experience having joined Kent Police in 2007. She has worked in a variety of departments including Criminal Justice, Corporate Services and Public Protection but she has spent the majority of her career within the planning department having been involved in planning for a Tier 1 Counter Terrorism Exercise, the Kent Police response to the Olympic and Paralympic Games and, more recently, running the Contingency Planning and Business Continuity department. Throughout her career, Clair has enjoyed working closely with a variety of partners, including her local resilience forum. Clair is now seconded full time to the JESIP Team and is leading work on the Assurance and Embedding workstream.