Metropolitan Police Public Order Branch—CO11
& 12
CARE AND SUPPORT PROVISION FOR OFFICERS ATTENDING
OFFICER SAFETY TRAINING (OST) AND PUBLIC ORDER TRAINING
1. INSTRUCTORS
The roles of instructor for OST and Public Order
training can be separated into three distinct areas;
(a) CO11 OST trainers provide the initial
training for student officers at Recruit Training School.
(b) Further developmental OST is provided
to officers already on Borough Operational Command Unit (BOCU).
(c) Public Order training is only provided
by CO12 training staff at the Metropolitan Police Service Training
Centre (MPSTC) at Gravesend.
The supervision and management of students by
trainers is necessarily limited to the time that they are in the
training environment. In the event of a welfare, discipline or
personal issue arising whilst training, the individual would be
dealt with on an ad hoc basis. Depending on the circumstances
they would be dealt with by a training manager on site or referred
back to their individual BOCUs or line management at Recruit Training
School.
The concept of "duty of care" receives
heavy emphasis in all the activities within the remit of CO11/12.
They are subject to stringent Health and Safety risk assessments
and the training structures for all instructors and students reflect
this.
2. OST & MPSTC MANAGERS
OST and MPSTC sergeants and inspectors are training
managers with direct line management responsibility for their
officers. They are also responsible for ensuring a safe training
environment and correct delivery of the training packages to students.
3. OST AT RECRUIT
TRAINING SCHOOL
OST is delivered to recruits during their initial
training and carried out on site at Hendon and is compulsory.
Safe working practices and health and safety and are given heavy
emphasis throughout the training. The OST foundation training
and safety protocol at Recruit Training School is shown below
at Appendix B.
4. OST ON BOCUS
This is carried out at training facilities within
individual BOCUs by experienced BOCU officers. This is of a developmental
nature and should amount to at least 12 hours per annum. BOCU
trainers have been trained by CO11 OST staff.
5. PUBLIC ORDER
TRAINING
Public Order training is not currently provided
to officers within the first two years of their service. However
this policy will be changing shortly.
The nature of the training requires numerous
risk assessments for the all the activities carried out on site.
These are fully compliant with Health and Safety legislation and
available for scrutiny.
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