Plan and brief the Spring Fair policing operation

What is going on

The Northgate Spring Fair on 10 October will draw about eight thousand people to the Civic Reserve, with a licensed area, a stage, food stalls, a children's zone and road closures on two streets. Last year's fair recorded two assaults in the licensed area after dark, a lost child and a traffic jam at the close. The council has provided its event plan. The District Superintendent wants an operational order ready for approval by 25 September, prepared using the template, with a risk assessment, a deployment plan, custody and transport arrangements, a command structure and a briefing for the members deployed. The community engagement team will run a stall and the highway patrol will manage the road closures.

Your brief

Produce an approved-ready operational order for the Spring Fair, supported by a risk assessment and a resourcing plan that draws on the fleet register, and deliver a briefing and debrief plan so that every member deployed knows their task, the permitted tactics and the command arrangements.

Work through it

You do not need to do it all. Doing a few of these will show you what the work is like. Your ticks and notes stay on this device.

• Read the Operational Order Template and the Operational Safety and Use of Force Policy, and list the approval requirements and the tactical constraints that the order must reflect.
• Review last year's fair incidents in the Incident Log and the council event plan details given in the context, and write the situation section with intelligence, hazards and stakeholders.
• Complete a risk assessment for the operation using the district five by five matrix, covering the licensed area, the children's zone, the road closures and the crowd egress, and enter any new risks in the hazard and risk register format.
• Write the mission and execution sections with phases, tasks by call sign, permitted tactics, custody and transport arrangements and contingencies for a lost child, an assault and a crowd surge.
• Prepare the administration and logistics section, selecting vehicles and equipment from the Fleet and Equipment Register and noting any asset with a defect or a service due that cannot be used.
• Set the command and communications section with the forward commander, radio channels, reporting schedule and stand down, and confirm that the community engagement team was consulted.
• Prepare a fifteen minute briefing outline and a debrief agenda, and explain how debrief lessons will be recorded in the hazard and risk register.
• Submit the completed order for approval with a covering note that states why the order is lawful, proportionate and adequately resourced.

What someone in this role would produce

• Completed operational order
• Risk assessment with matrix ratings
• Resourcing list drawn from the Fleet and Equipment Register
• Briefing outline and debrief agenda
• Covering note for the approving officer