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Applications for this role are restricted to existing employees of the College of Policing, the Civil Service and officers or staff of a UK police force or UK policing organisation.

Job description

The AI Enabled Threat Coordinator will play a critical role in ensuring PATH is connected into the wider research, innovation, national security and government ecosystem that shapes emerging capability in the UK and beyond.

You will lead strategic engagement with partners across His Majesty’s Government, the national security community, applied research partners, innovation networks and funding bodies, identifying opportunities to align, co-develop and share capability for policing benefit.

The role coordinates PATH activity across policing and partners, ensuring AI-enabled crime threats are understood, shared and acted upon consistently. It acts as the interface between intelligence, operations and capability delivery.

The post reports to the Criminal Threats Lead and works closely with colleagues across PATH and other Police AI functions to ensure the Hub remains at the forefront of policing’s response to AI-enabled crime.

Person specification

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Act as a primary liaison between police forces, ROCUs and national partners, including the NCA and Home Office, to coordinate cross-force collaboration on AI-enabled crime threats.

Improve information-sharing mechanisms across policing, ensuring intelligence is captured, structured and disseminated effectively.
Ensure PATH outputs are translated into operational briefings, practical guidance and support for forces to adopt new capabilities, such as deepfake detection.
Identify barriers to adoption and drive consistent national implementation of relevant AI-enabled threat capabilities.
Build and maintain a clear picture of the external landscape relevant to Police AI priorities, including people, programmes and institutions that can support delivery, de-risk activity or accelerate progress.
Broker collaboration between PATH and external partners to enable the adaptation, development, testing or evaluation of technologies and approaches that could support policing outcomes.

Provide high-quality briefing, advice and strategic insight to senior leaders and support papers, briefings and strategic products for policing and government stakeholders.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Seeing the Big Picture
Communicating and Influencing
Working Together

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

Threat coordination and operational integration
Intelligence flow, stakeholder engagement and collaboration
Partnership development focusing on technology / innovation / R&D.

Benefits

This role offers the opportunity to shape a nationally significant policing capability and improve how policing understands, shares and responds to AI-enabled crime threats. Benefits include:

Learning and development tailored to your role, including exposure to emerging AI, intelligence, innovation and national threat coordination work.
An environment with flexible and hybrid working options.
A culture encouraging inclusion, diversity, collaboration and evidence-led innovation.

For more information about your benefits and staff networks, visit Guide to your employee benefits

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Vacancy reference: 7224

Anticipated interview dates: Week commencing 17th August 2026

This role is available for 2 years as an internal secondment / fixed-term contract and is available as a temporary promotion opportunity.

If you would like to discuss the role in more detail, please contact T/DCI Helen Pealing, helen.pealing@college.police.uk

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

UK nationals
nationals of the Republic of Ireland
nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Salary range

£30,164 per year