Policing UK 2013 - Police Federation
Policing UK 2013 - Police Federation
Policing UK 2013 - Police Federation
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OVERVIEW<br />
“We’re giving the police the tools they<br />
need to get the job done: reducing<br />
bureaucracy, cutting costs and creating<br />
a stronger, more capable workforce.”<br />
Renewed focus<br />
The next year will see a renewed focus<br />
on police professionalism, with the<br />
new College of <strong>Policing</strong>, led by Chief<br />
Constable Alex Marshall, playing a key<br />
role. For the first time, the College will<br />
set and maintain the high standards<br />
the public demand of the police,<br />
underpinned by an in-depth knowledge<br />
of ‘what works’ in crime fighting. Above<br />
all, it will ensure that policing works in<br />
the public interest.<br />
The work of the College will be<br />
supported by the changes we are making<br />
to the 30-year-old system of police pay<br />
and conditions, ensuring they recognise<br />
the hardest-working officers and reward<br />
professional skills.<br />
Building on the recommendations<br />
of the Winsor Review, these reforms<br />
will help to create the modern, flexible<br />
workforce that Chief Constables need to<br />
keep cutting crime.<br />
And to ensure the police can attract<br />
the brightest and best from all walks<br />
of life, we will hold a consultation in<br />
the coming year on Tom Winsor’s<br />
recommendations on graduate fast-track<br />
and direct entry schemes for the police.<br />
If implemented, these proposals offer<br />
the chance to develop a much stronger<br />
and more diverse leadership cadre than<br />
ever before.<br />
Building on progress<br />
<strong>2013</strong> will also see us address a<br />
longstanding imbalance in policing,<br />
where Whitehall has paid a great deal<br />
of attention to local policing, while<br />
neglecting the fight against serious,<br />
organised and complex crime.<br />
So this year, a new National Crime<br />
Agency (NCA) will become operational,<br />
tackling organised crime and leading<br />
the law enforcement response to<br />
cyber crime, economic crime, child<br />
exploitation and border security. Under<br />
Keith Bristow, the NCA’s Director<br />
General and an experienced operational<br />
crime-fighter, the National Crime<br />
Agency will use its new powers to<br />
co-ordinate and task law enforcement in<br />
the fight against serious, organised and<br />
complex crime.<br />
These changes build on the good<br />
progress we have already made in the<br />
last two years.<br />
We have cut out waste and made sure<br />
the police have the tools they need to get<br />
the job done. We have reduced centrallyimposed<br />
bureaucracy to free up police<br />
time, which could save up to 4.5 million<br />
police hours a year – the equivalent of<br />
2,100 police officers on the streets. We<br />
are making changes that will allow the<br />
police to prosecute up to half a million<br />
cases each year. And we’re creating a<br />
new police owned-and-led IT company<br />
to ensure forces have the technology they<br />
need to fight crime.<br />
And of course we have introduced<br />
police and crime commissioners<br />
(PCCs) to ensure the police are directly<br />
accountable to the communities<br />
they serve as well as providing more<br />
information via the police.uk website and<br />
community beat meetings.<br />
Accountability<br />
By giving them a more accurate picture<br />
of crime in their forces, we’re making<br />
it easier for the public to hold the<br />
police to account via the PCC. And by<br />
strengthening both the Independent<br />
<strong>Police</strong> Complaints Commission and Her<br />
Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary,<br />
we’re ensuring the police are subject to<br />
robust, independent scrutiny.<br />
So we’ve given the public a say in<br />
how they’re policed, and relinquished<br />
central government’s bureaucratic grip<br />
over local policing. We’ve provided<br />
a renewed focus on the most serious<br />
national threats. And we’re giving the<br />
police the tools they need to get the job<br />
done: reducing bureaucracy, cutting costs<br />
and creating a stronger, more capable<br />
workforce.<br />
This isn’t about the Home Office<br />
stepping out of policing – it’s about<br />
creating a policing environment where<br />
everyone plays to their strengths, and<br />
where collectively we have a singular<br />
focus on cutting crime.<br />
People are just beginning to see our<br />
reforms in action. Two years in, we can<br />
say with confidence that our reforms<br />
are working. Crime is down; public<br />
confidence is high and the front line is<br />
being maintained. <strong>Policing</strong> is rising to<br />
the challenge.<br />
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