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Speaking at the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC) and National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) Partnership Summit the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper set out a new road map for policing reform across England and Wales.
The changes announced align to Labour’s ‘Safer Streets’ mission to halve serious violent crime and raise confidence in the police and criminal justice system. At the heart of these plans is a focus on neighbourhood policing, including the government’s commitment to deliver an additional 13,000 police officers, PCSOs and special constables in neighbourhood policing roles; however, the plans for reform go much further than that.
We will need to wait until next year’s white paper for full details, but the speech outlined the key changes being planned across the areas of neighbourhood policing, police performance, structures and capabilities, and crime prevention. Although sparse on detail, the announcements made it clear that technology will be a pivotal part of this reform and there will be a significant impact on tech-suppliers.
The Home Secretary highlighted inefficiency in technology procurement, stating that, “every force wrestles over and over again with the same questions about new software, IT changes or records management—wasting time, pushing up costs and creating systems that aren’t even interoperable. Instead of technology driving great leaps forward in policing, too often it is holding policing back.”
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Posted by Dale Peters at '10:11' - Tagged: strategy funding procurement police government law+enforcement public+safety home+office efficiency reform
