Rose Partners was tasked with implementing a programme of strategic support for a Government Department.

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This long-term project required us to work closely with the Minister and senior leadership at all levels across the organisation to assess the structure of policing in the country and provide mentoring, training and ongoing support to implement change. The project focused on creating the right size and shape of structures based on developing strategies that meet the needs of a modern-day policing organisation.

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This focussed on the development of a national strategic threat assessment which in turn led to the creation of the following strategies:

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• Counterterrorism; the combating of illegal migration including people trafficking (serious and organised crime strategy);

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• A national intelligence strategy and model; and the management of the country’s large stockpile of unexploded ordnance including remnants of war.

 

We built on these by designing a new national police model and a comprehensive change management plan to deliver, over time, the strategies, the new model and new ways of working.

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Security Sector Reform (SSR) is about fundamental change, in this case to a police organisation and the Ministry it sits within. Community frontline police are the most visible presence of civil security architecture; this was a key focus along with the development of capabilities and capacity to improve public trust and interoperability.

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Other priorities were mainstreaming human rights and gender programmes, coordinating international donors, establishing training centres, introducing professional standards, advancing merit-based leadership programmes, investigations and intelligence – and prioritising recruitment and retention of personnel as well as fighting corruption.