Matt England
Head of the National JESIP Team
Matt joined the team as National Delivery Manager in February 2025 and became Head of the National JESIP Team in September 2025. He has a 30-plus year background in emergency nursing, including voluntary service, and ambulance services, including as a Paramedic.
He has worked in Emergency Departments in North West London, Brighton and overseas, and as Head of Emergency Planning at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust. In 2009 he joined South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) to build and manage the Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) and since then has had various challenging roles including implementing the major trauma system and improving heart attack pathways.
Matt has also worked as the Emergency Services Collaboration Manager and oversaw the implementation of a range of activities including Joint Response Units and, Fire Service co-responding. He has also gained a post graduate qualification in Collaboration and Public Service Transformation. In 2022 Matt took up the role as Emergency Preparedness Manager for the Sussex area of SECAmb. Matt has been a keen advocate of JESIP since its inception and has applied the principles practically on many occasions, including planned events such as Brighton Pride, and at emergencies including the Shoreham air crash and Surrey-wide area flooding, and especially through his work as a Tactical Advisor and NILO.
Chris Dingle
National Delivery Manager
Chris completed a Bachelor’s degree in Law in 2012 before beginning his career in Higher Education management. After several years working in complex academic and operational environments, he made a significant career change in 2018 when he joined Sussex Police as a Contact Officer.
He progressed rapidly within the force, becoming a controller and then a Control Room Supervisor, and during this time trained as an Airwave Tactical Advisor. His experience in operational communications and critical incident response led to a secondment in 2021 to lead the planning for the policing of the Labour Party Conference, one of the UK’s most high‑profile annual political events. He subsequently joined Operations Command, overseeing the Operations Planning team. In this role, he led the planning and coordination of a wide range of major events, public order and protective security operations across the region.
Alongside his operational experience, Chris is a qualified PRINCE2 Practitioner and has led a variety of projects across IT, HR, change management, process improvement, and training and exercising. His project leadership has supported organisational development across multiple disciplines and contributed to improved operational efficiency and preparedness.
He brings to his current role extensive experience in operational planning, command and control, project delivery, crisis response, and large‑scale event management, underpinned by a strong commitment to collaboration and high‑quality public service.
Chanel Hendricks-Lynch
Team Leader in the National Team
We’ve been delighted to recently welcome Chanel Hendricks-Lynch as our new Team Leader in the National Team. Chanel joins on secondment from the London Fire Brigade (LFB), where she has more than 22 years of operational service, most recently as a Station Officer.
She has wide experience of working in Operational Resilience and Control, on the frontline within Service Delivery, and as a trainer within the LFB Service Standards Support Team. Chanel has also been involved in major event planning for the Brigade, including the coronation of King Charles III and the state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
In her JESIP role, Chanel is managing our team of specialist service practitioners, leading our programme of assurance visits, and overseeing Joint Organisational Learning (JOL) among other responsibilities.
Inspector Charlotte Lory
Transformation Lead
Inspector Charlotte Lory has joined the national JESIP Team as our new Transformation Lead. Charlotte is a serving officer with Cumbria Constabulary with almost 29 years’ service, the majority of which has been in uniformed response. She has also served as the lead for her force’s Civil Contingencies Unit, including multi-agency planning, training & exercising, and responding in many emergencies including severe weather events and flooding. Charlotte has an MSc in in Emergency Planning, Resilience and Response from the University of Wolverhampton, including a dissertation on the use of online Strategic Coordination Groups during the Covid 19 pandemic.
Daniel Forman
Communications and Engagement Lead
Dan is a communications and strategy consultant, specialising in home affairs and social policy. He is currently working with JESIP, the National Police Chiefs Council and Counter Terrorism Policing. He previously worked in the Civil Service and as a journalist, and has also worked for the Bank of England and UK Sport, as well as on a number of independent inquiries and reviews.
Alex Perks
Alex is an experienced police officer who joins as our policing specialist service practitioner. He joined the City of London Police in 1996 and transferred to Hertfordshire Constabulary in 1999, where he was worked on operations planning, including for several major events, and as an Eastern regional training lead. Alex has also worked as a CBRN tactical adviser and loves working in partnership with counterparts from other services.
Ben Wooders
Ben joins as our fire service specialist practitioner from the London Fire Brigade. He is a Level One Incident Commander in the LFB and most recently served as a Command Unit Team Leader in the borough of Lewisham. He regularly supports the chairs of multi-agency meetings at high profile incidents and is passionate about multi-agency working. Prior to joining the Brigade he previously served in the British Army for 15 years, including as a Search and Counter IED specialist.
Chris Attfield
Chris is our Ambulance service specialist practitioner, joining in July 2025 from the South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb).
Chris joined the ambulance service in 1988, becoming a paramedic in 1992. He has always served in West Sussex, where he has worked in different roles during his career, most recently as part of the Special Operations Response Team (SORT). He has been a champion for road safety, working alongside Sussex Police and West Sussex Fire and Rescue. He is trained in both operational and tactical commander roles.
Out of work, Chris is a keen motorsport fan and is part of the British touring car medical team.
