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What is the Suffolk Resilience Forum?
The Suffolk Resilience Forum (SRF) is a multi-agency group that provides strategic and operational guidance and support on the planning for multi-agency responses to a major incident.
The SRF is the principal mechanism for multi-agency cooperation under the Civil Contingencies Act, 2004 and its boundaries are based on local policing boundaries.
We are a non-statutory organisation and a partner agency is required to host the secretariat team. Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service are our hosting agency and the SRF sits within the Risk and Resilience structure of the service.
The secretariat team is made up of:
- SRF Partnership Manager
- 2 x Risk & Resilience Officers
SRF Partnership Manager reports to the SRF Chair.
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The role of the SRF Chair rotates every 12 – 18 months between the Police, Fire, County, District & Borough Local Authority leads.
Julie Dean is the current SRF Chair alongside being an Assistant Chief Constable (ACC) working within the collaborated Protective Services with Norfolk and Suffolk Constabularies.
ACC Julie Dean has been a police officer with Norfolk Constabulary since 1997. She has worked across a variety of roles including frontline uniformed policing, Investigations, Custody Investigation and Safeguarding.
As a Detective Chief Superintendent, Julie was the Head of the Joint Justice Services Command. This is a collaborated command with Suffolk Constabulary and includes the Custody, Custody Investigation and Criminal Justice teams. Julie also held organisational responsibility for the thematic areas of file quality, disclosure, victims and managing offenders and also led a number of strategic projects for the two organisations.
In August 2022, Julie was promoted to the rank of Assistant Chief Constable as the collaborative lead for Protective Services and Joint Justice Services for Norfolk and Suffolk Constabularies. This role involves oversight of the delivery of Specialist Crime and Intelligence, Major Investigation, Forensic Services, Specialist Operations along with Custody, the Custody Investigation Unit and Criminal Justice. In addition, Julie is executive sponsor of The Forum, the force inclusivity network with a specific focus on gender and is active mentor within force.
Our Vision
‘To enable Suffolk to be as prepared and resilient as possible’.
We provide a routine partnership forum of responder agencies to maximise positive effects of integrated emergency management’
SRF Mission Statement
‘Working in collaboration with our partners through multi-agency co-ordination and co-operation, engagement with the wider Suffolk system focusing on prevention, preparation, response and recovery from major incidents’.
Our Objectives
- To promote cooperation between organisations in their preparation for response to a major emergency.
- To promote collaborative, cross-organisation training and exercise programmes, integrating this practice into the preparations of individual organisations.
- To provide a forum for the consideration of emergency response issues where more than one agency could be implicated.
- To support agreed courses of action where mutual benefit has been identified.
- To provide an opportunity for the exchange of information.
- To risk assess hazards within and to Suffolk.
Several agencies and organisations come together to form the Suffolk Resilience Forum, all with the common aim of ensuring that Suffolk is prepared for emergencies.
The voices of each individual organisation in providing strategic and operational guidance diversifies the scope of our knowledge, enabling the forum to perform its functions effectively.
The partnership consists of two groups of organisations that may be involved in an emergency response. We also work with other organisations who are not categorised under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 such as Military and voluntary organisations, who are listed under ‘other agencies’.
Category 1 and 2 Responder organisations work;
- Locally
- Regionally
- Nationally
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