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Chris is a retired Police Officer with over 30 years of operational experience. He’s dealt with some of the most critical, no prior notice incidents where lives have been lost, or there is a potential for lives to be lost. He understands how to deal and respond to incidents, and the importance of a common sense plan when dealing with something where you have to make decisions, with very little information.
Chris is originally from Bristol. His father was a Detective Superintendent in Avon and Somerset Police. Not wanting to live in his shadow he joined Thames Valley Police in 1988 following his graduation from the University of Manchester.
He was an operational officer for most of his career responding to incidents as they happened on a daily basis.
Chris has worked in Major Incident Rooms as an Indexer and System Supervisor and was involved in a number of murder investigations.
He has trained new Police Officers and Police staff as well as being the Force Training Manager, ensuring over 1000 new officers a year went through their probationary training.
In 2009 Chris moved into the Control Room as a Force Incident Manager. Having operational command of three counties, he became an experienced commander in dealing with incidents as they happened with little or no information beforehand. Liaising with junior and senior officers he would perform a risk assessment, determine the priorities, put a plan in place to deal with an incident and ensure appropriate resources were allocated.
Chris Evans
As part of this role, he was a Tactical Firearms Commander with command of Armed Response Vehicles and officers, deploying them on a daily basis to armed incidents. One armed officer told him once they liked it when he briefed them on an incident as his calm voice and manner was just the same as when they spoke to him at the start of their shift. Chris has received a commendation for “keeping everyone safe.”
In 2015 Chris rewrote the Control Room Plan for a Marauding Terrorist Attack. These plans were reviewed in 2017 by Counter Terrorism UK across all 43 forces and his plan was graded as platinum standard.
Since retiring, Chris has maintained an interest in emergency management and has supported some schools with the review of their security, their emergency plans and lockdowns.
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