ATC/RAFAC Policy Documents

no - but if we were create the policy today - why would the numbers not match up?

when steering new CIs through SharePoint, more than one has “got it” and said “so to find the ACTO to the corresponding ACP it is just the same number?” only for me to reply “nope”

Because it just doesn’t need to be two docs. You just need ACP 10 - Directive, and ACP 10 - Guidance, the same as JSPs do.

Go a step further and remove all the ACATI/ACRoMaI etc and just number things correctly.

ACP 1XX for admin. ACP 2XX for H&S. ACP 3XX for AT. ACP 4XX for sport. ACP 5XX for logistics etc etc.

At least that’s how I’d do it :man_shrugging:

i am not familiar with how JSPs work - i don’t need to use them.

I use ACPs and ACTOs hence my approach…

given the HQAC is led by RAF in some shape or form it is surprising the RAFAC reinvented the wheel when writing policy is JSPs “work”?

One of the big problems is knowing what the document is even referred to before you start digging for actual content. You can’t even do a search across all the major documents for a key phrase (unlike some companies who have a “docunet” facility); in many cases, you are lost before you start looking for the needle in the haystack!

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They possibly thought about this too late for JSPs and APs, but some of the others — DINs and/or IBNs, JDPs, AJPs, etc. — include a number indicating the subject matter using the continental staff system (1 for personnel/admin, 2 for int/sy, 3 for ops, etc.)

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There is a document index/indexes.

Is that the W3W for HQ RAFAC?

Haha, I agree - I don’t know what’s going on in CE but they have hidden their SPO from anyone outside the region.

True - but the random description/ title / numbering still doesn’t help. If I wanted to search for “safe use of pink thrungebracket” across several documents, a composite document search would be invaluable & save a lot of time.

I had a prime example of this recently. I wanted to have another read of what JSP 814 said about ratios when the recent discussion of it on here led to it being debated on our sqn. On MODNET, each chapter of the JSP is a separate document. Naturally, I turned to the chapter on safeguarding first: nothing; cadet training? No. General training? No. It was under something like unit organisation and structure.

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I generally download the whole PDFs and do word-based or phase-based searches to find what I need. Rarely are the contents pages or chapters actually useful :joy:

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As much as I hate to be the one to suggest it, something like Copilot would do this. The SharePoint search function is abysmal.

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Worse than!!

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