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Remote working (anywhere in the UK)
Applications for this role are restricted to existing officers or staff of a UK police force or UK policing organisation.
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.
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 Majestys 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 policings response to AI-enabled crime.
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.
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
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.
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:
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Learning and development tailored to your role, including exposure to emerging AI, intelligence, innovation and national threat coordination work.
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An environment with flexible and hybrid working options.
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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
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 for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
This vacancy is using Success Profiles , 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, [email protected]
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check .
See our vetting charter .
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
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)
- 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
Further information on nationality requirements
The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .
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.
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.
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