Information about the role of a mounted sergeant, including the role purpose, key responsibilities and the skills required.
About the role
A mounted sergeant is a specialist operations position within the operational support sector of policing. It's a team leader role in the policing professional profiles.
Role purpose
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.
Key responsibilities
Key responsibility statements show the accountabilities for someone in this role. They focus on what is done, not how it is done.
- Supervising the mounted team duties on a daily basis to ensure effective performance and results.
- Providing 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.
- Planning the mounted resources for events to support the achievements of operational objectives.
- Monitoring and assessing the performance and professional development of the team to ensure operational competency and team resilience.
- Supporting wellbeing of officers by providing a timely response to any issues to enable a motivated and healthy workforce.
- Ensuring the welfare and care of horses to maintain and protect mounted resources.
Competencies, values and core skills
The competency and values framework (CVF) provides clear expectations for everyone working in policing. It describes the behaviours required by police officers and staff to be effective in their roles and uphold the Code of Ethics for policing.
Competencies
The CVF has six competencies, which are split into levels. These levels can be used flexibly to allow for a better fit with frontline and non-frontline policing roles, and at different levels of seniority. This ensures that there is consistency throughout all the policing professional profiles. Some roles may contain different CVF levels due to the specialist nature of the role. Those working at higher levels should also fulfil the requirements of the lower levels.
This role should be operating at or working towards the following competencies.
- We are emotionally aware – Level 2: supervisor or middle manager
- We take ownership – Level 2: supervisor or middle manager
- We collaborate – Level 2: supervisor or middle manager
- We support and inspire – Level 2: supervisor or middle manager
- We analyse critically – Level 2: supervisor or middle manager
- We are innovative and open-minded – Level 2: supervisor or middle manager
Values
The CVF has three values that apply to everyone in policing, regardless of their role or seniority.
Core skills
All roles in policing have nine core skills in common. These are split into levels that represent the different levels of policing. This role should be operating at or working towards the following core skills.
Education, qualifications and experience
Previous education, qualifications and experience
- Completed the Mounted Public Order Commanders course.
In-role education, qualifications and experience
- Refer to requirements in G1 annex C in POPS Standards, Training, Equipment and Resources (you will need to log in to College Learn).
Continuing professional development
Continuing professional development (CPD) enables everyone in policing to develop and gain recognition for their professional skills, knowledge and competence. CPD ensures that we continue to provide high-quality policing to keep the public safe and help to drive career aspirations. Discussion of CPD is usually included as part of professional development review (PDR) conversations.
Learning and accreditation
- Complete all annual and mandatory training.
- Maintain accreditation as per G1 annex C in POPS Standards, Training, Equipment and Resources (you will need to log in to College Learn).
- Any exemptions to learning and accreditation requirements are at chief constable discretion, in line with the local force policy.
Professional development
This role should consider the following CPD:
- maintaining an up to date understanding of College of Policing guidance, best practice and any local policy applicable to the operational police context
- maintaining and updating key knowledge, understanding and skills relating to criminology, legislation, policy and practice across all functional policing areas of operational policing
- maintaining 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
- maintaining a working knowledge and understanding of new and evolving crime threats and priorities and current good practice to tackle these in order to enable a pro-active and preventative approach
- maintaining a working knowledge and understanding of Public Order Public Safety command
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