Prince William outside Kensington Palace in London (Picture: Kensignton AP/Getty/Historic Royal Palaces)
Kensington Palace has put out a job for a brand new safety guard to guard Prince William’s royal residence (Image: Kensington AP/Getty/Historic Royal Palaces)

Kensington Palace is rising the safety of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge after two safety breaches final month.

On the morning of Christmas Day, an intruder armed with a crossbow breached Windsor Citadel grounds.

It got here after police shot useless a suspected gunman close to Prince William’s west London residence, the place he lives with Kate Middleton and their youngsters, George, Charlotte and Louis.

It seems to have prompted Historic Royal Palaces to recruit a brand new guard to assist defend the younger royal family.

The function will contain supporting the workforce in ‘making Kensington Palace a secure and safe place to work and go to’ and safeguarding it from ‘the threats of intrusion, theft, harm, hearth, flood and different conditions’.

Duties will embody patrolling and monitoring CCTV on the Cambridge’s principal house.

The job advert states: ‘We presently have an thrilling alternative to hitch our operations workforce as a safety officer (cowl).

In December, a suspected gunman was shot dead by police near the residence of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (Picture: PA)
A suspected gunman was shot useless by police close to Kensington Palace final month (Image: PA)
Metropolitan Police officers responsing to an incident on Marloes Road, west London (Picture: PA)
The Metropolitan Police stated officers had been referred to as to studies of a person with a firearm coming into a close-by financial institution (Image: PA)

‘As a safety officer your function might be to assist the workforce in making Kensington Palace a secure and safe place to work and go to.

‘Duties will embody the standard components of entry management, patrolling, sustaining shift log data, monitoring CCTV, monitoring life security methods, opening and shutting the property and being prepared to help our guests in any means that helps them get pleasure from an unforgettable expertise.

‘Because the function is a assist function, your shift sample could also be ad-hoc at occasions and can contain each day and evening working throughout a seven-day rotation.’

The £22,390 each year part-time function entails two days, two nights on after which 4 nights off.

The brand new recruit will ideally be somebody with expertise in a safety management room surroundings and is comfy utilizing technical methods.

Final week, Metro.co.uk shared the primary image of the 19-year-old suspect who's alleged to have ‘scaled Windsor Citadel with a crossbow’ whereas the Queen celebrated Christmas.

Jaswant Singh Chail, from Southampton, was detained underneath the Psychological Well being Act within the grounds of the royal’s Berkshire residence, sparking a significant safety overview.

The suspected gunman was shot 3 times as he sat behind a taxi in Kensington Gardens, close to Kensington Palace, final month.

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