Preparation route

Mock interview

Preparation follows RCT-2025-00107. Applications for this campaign closed on 15 December 2025. Check official updates for later campaigns.

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Answer in English. Work through each question, then review your evidence. The 25-minute timer is a practice setting, not an official test duration.

25:00

1. Why do you want an AD8 operational leadership role, and what responsibility would remain yours after delegation?

Motivation to serve

2. Describe an operation in which you coordinated several functions with different constraints.

Relevant professional experience

3. Describe how you delegated an urgent task while retaining accountability.

Leadership experience

4. How have you responded to pressure to achieve a result through an unlawful shortcut?

Law enforcement culture

5. Explain a complex operational risk to a non-specialist decision maker.

Clear communication

6. Describe a decision improved by input from staff who initially disagreed with you.

Listening to staff and partners

After rehearsal, check personal actions, authority, sources, safeguards, results and learning. Use the individual question pages for STAR structure feedback.