Episode #020 – Matt Jukes QPM - Insights from the Head of UK Counter Terrorism Policing.

Matt Jukes QPM is the Head of UK Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) and a member of the Metropolitan Police Service’s Management Board as Assistant Commissioner (Specialist Operations). He has held this role since July 2021. His responsibilities span countering threats from domestic and international terrorism and the protection of the Royal Family, Ministers and Parliament. Matt oversaw the CTP investigation into the murder of Sir David Amess MP and contributed to security at the funeral of HM The Queen and HM The King’s Coronation. Most recently, this has seen him lead the responses to the recent conflicts in Ukraine and Middle East.

Matt is the national policing lead on national security policing and has led through a four-fold increase in operations emanating from espionage, foreign interference and war crimes in the last three years. His leadership includes membership of the Five Eyes Law Enforcement Group. Matt joined policing in 1995 and first started working in counter terrorism in 2001, going on to advise the UK law enforcement delegation to the G8 and undertaking operational duties as a CT Commander. Security and intelligence have been recurring themes of his career, woven into periods of territorial police command, including as the Chief Constable of South Wales Police.

In this episode, we’ll explore Matt’s current assessment of the UK terrorism threat landscape, the increasing involvement of young offenders in Counter Terrorism Policing’s casework, and how Counter Terrorism Policing has had to evolve in line with an evolving and enormously diverse range of terrorism ideologies, methodologies and threat actors.

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Please note: This episode was recorded on 16 April 2025.

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