National Police Coordination Centre (NPoCC)
The National Police Coordination Centre (NPoCC) provides support to forces across the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories.
It is made up of a small number of officers and staff drawn on secondment from police forces across the UK, formed into two teams (Operations, and Strategic Intelligence and Briefing), which is funded by contributions from all forces.
Assistant Chief Constable Mark Williams is the Strategic Lead for NPoCC.
NPoCC also provide a central co-ordination function for UK policing. Work includes: Operation Talla (the national policing response to the COVID-19 pandemic) and Operation Wirebrick (the mobilisation of thousands of items of spare equipment to support colleagues in Ukraine, Modolva and Poland).
NPoCC also coordinate nationally significant protests; for example, protests involving groups such as ‘Insulate Britain’, ‘Extinction Rebellion’, ‘Just Stop Oil’, ‘Animal Rebellion’ and anti-vaccine protests.
Internationally, NPoCC support the British Overseas Territories, and have worked with the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office with contingency planning for any assistance required during the hurricane season.
In addition, NPoCC will work with forces from overseas territories and Crown Dependencies to ensure that their officers are represented and present during events of significant importance, such as at the Coronation of King Charles III.
NPoCC also support Chief Officers at the Civil Contingencies Committee (COBR) and regularly represent UK policing at official or ministerial level meetings relating to protest or disorder.
The SIB team provide intelligence support focussed on assessing strategic threats from protest and provide daily and weekly intelligence reports to forces and across forces and government for major events and incidents.
The Operations team monitor national capacity and capability across a range of over 200 specialist skills and are the central point for mobilisation of mutual aid across forces. They support UK policing during pre-planned and spontaneous events.
In the summer of 2024, they were pivotal in the resourcing for Op Navette, the largest mobilisation of public order officers since 2011 and the first time the national mobilisation plan was activated to create a national strategic reserve of public order officers.
They also deliver national testing and exercising, and in recent years have mobilised over 20,000 officers for events such as the G7 in Cornwall, COP26 in Scotland, the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, and the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Police across the UK and the Commonwealth supported the largest ever ceremonial operation for the mourning period of Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II. Most recently, they supported the French security operation during the Paris Olympics and Paralympic Games 2024.
They also capture learning from both protest operations and major events, and work with national portfolio leads and the College of Policing to support the delivery of these complex policing areas in the future.
