Mark Durham

• Enterprise-Wide Command: Acts as the primary decision-maker for all spontaneous, high-consequence incidents involving threat to life, serious crime, and public safety emergencies.
• Strategic Risk Management: Applies formal risk frameworks (National Decision Model) under extreme pressure to evaluate threats, balance proportionality against legal compliance, and execute strategic containment plans.
• Resource & Capability Deployment: Dynamically allocates high-specialism assets (specialist response units, surveillance, air support, and armed personnel) to high-priority operational threats.
• Executive Liaison & Governance: Coordinates multi-agency responses alongside external blue-light services, local authorities, and national agencies; maintains rigorous, legally defensible decision logs for post-incident review and public inquiry.
• Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) Oversight: Ensures all operational deployments strictly comply with statutory frameworks, human rights standards, and organizational policy.
• Enterprise Asset & Facilities Security Oversight: Directs live operational decisions regarding force-wide estates and physical infrastructure challenges, ensuring continuity of site operations, rapid remediation of security breaches, and zero-downtime during site incidents.
• Duty of Care & Personnel Welfare Management: Exercises overall command over staff welfare, operational safety, and physical/mental fatigue during high-intensity incidents, driving workforce resilience and regulatory HSE compliance.
• Reputational Risk & Brand Protection: Evaluates live operational decisions through a reputational lens, balancing public safety priorities with community impact to safeguard organizational integrity, trust, and stakeholder confidence.
• Strategic Partner & Public-Private Liaison: Collaborates with government bodies, national security agencies, local authorities, and blue-light partners to deliver unified problem-solving strategies, joint risk mitigation, and shared intelligence frameworks.

Operational Firearms Commander / Tactical Adviser
Derbyshire Constabulary | 2015 – Present

• Threat Response Command: Lead the strategic and tactical response to threats to life, developing and implementing live security and safeguarding strategies that protect the public, critical infrastructure, and emergency services.
• Crisis Management: Direct complex crisis management operations—including hospital lockdown responses under armed threat—collaborating directly with health executives and emergency partners to protect vulnerable assets and embed post-incident learning.
• Specialist Operations Leadership: Lead and manage specialist firearms and tactical units, driving operational readiness, training governance, workforce welfare, and a culture of accountability.
• Counter-Terrorism Site Assessments: Conduct high-level protective security audits across regional estates, vulnerable premises, and Critical National Infrastructure (CNI), advising on physical resilience including hostile vehicle mitigation (HVM), access control, and CCTV infrastructure.
• Executive Tactical Advisory: Provide expert tactical advice to executive leadership teams, aligning dynamic operational responses with overarching strategic risk objectives and national security standards (including Martyn's Law / Protect Duty frameworks).
• Strategic Stakeholder Partnerships: Build and maintain high-level multi-agency relationships across local authorities, the NHS, Fire & Rescue Services, and government departments to achieve integrated security and safeguarding outcomes.
• Organized Crime Mitigation: Support complex investigations into serious and organized crime by executing contingency planning and tactical threat containment to protect communities and uphold organizational reputation.