Police Reform


Thursday April 22nd 2010, Central London, 09:30 - 16:00

Inside Government's Case Study Convention:
Reforming Policing: Creating a Police Service Fit for the 21st Century

Overview

The police force has undergone a series of operational changes since the start of the 21st century. The challenges of crime and anti-social behaviour are enormous. Levels of crime, although falling, remain too high and detection rates too low. The police want to reduce public fear of crime and do more to build public confidence.

The Policing Green Paper – From the Neighbourhood to the National: Policing our Communities Together (July 2008) - set out plans to adopt the PSA as a measure of public confidence and as a single top-down performance target for the police service.

The Taylor Reforms were passed in December 2008 and introduced new police misconduct and performance procedures throughout the Police Service in England and Wales. The regulations introduced three significant elements:

  • New national standards of professional behaviour
  • The reintroduction and reinvigoration of the Unsatisfactory Performance Procedures (UPP)
  • New procedures for addressing misconduct in the police service

The new Policing and Crime Act (November 2009), sets out the ways government will work with police to give a clear and powerful voice to the public, drive down crime, and drive up public confidence and give local people more information and a bigger say in how their neighbourhood is policed.

According to the Home Office website, police peform must help meet the following challenges:

  • Providing a citizen-focused service to the public, especially victims and witnesses, which responds to the needs of individuals and communities and inspires confidence in the police
  • Tackling anti-social behaviour and disorder
  • Continuing to reduce burglary, vehicle crime, robbery and drug related crime
  • Combating serious and organised crime, both across and within force boundaries
  • Narrowing the justice gap by increasing the number of offences brought to justice
  • Better leadership and training
  • Optimising police use of science and technology
  • A better deal on occupational health
  • Modernising police regulations and all terms and conditions
  • Ensuring all staff have high quality terms and conditions
  • Performance management

With this in mind, this unique convention will provide best practice case study analysis and benchmarking from those with key insight into how to deliver a police service that secures and maintains high levels of satisfaction and confidence through the consistent delivery of a first class policing service that meets the needs of individuals and of communities and provides a service that people value.

Agenda

09:30 Coffee and Registration
10:05 Opening Remarks by Chair
Roger King, Visiting Fellow, Office for Public Management (OPM) (CONFIRMED)
10:10

Case Study 1: Citizen Focused Policing

  • The ‘Putting People First’ programme: Improving service delivery and delivering services in a more citizen focused way
  • People First Workshops:
    • Active service design
    • Conducting research
    • Lessons learned
  • Creating a cultural change
  • Meeting citizen focus hallmarks and enablers
  • Successful working with partnership agencies
  • Engaging local communities
  • Enabling efficiency and productivity
  • Making the most of human resources
  • Shaping the future of the Putting People First programme.


Ivor Twydell, Assistant Chief Constable, Gloucestershire Police (invited)
10:30

Case Study 2: Police Confidence

  • Public Confidence in Cleveland Police – Process of transition: Baseline 2003 – low public confidence in Cleveland Police to 2009 highest nationally
  • Community engagement
  • Delivering results
  • Team Cleveland
  • Better leadership and training
  • ISIS and public confidence:
    • Single coordinated approach for police information systems
    • Transforming officer and citizen contact experience
    • Transforming development, procurement, implementation and management of police IT at a national level
  • Key lessons on confidence


Sean Price, Chief Constable, Cleveland Police (Cleveland Police has the highest nationally recorded public confidence figures) (CONFIRMED)
10:50 Questions and Answers Session
11:10 Coffee and Networking
11:30

Reforming Policing: Workshop 1

A one-hour workshop which will allow delegates to understand complex areas of specific interest. The sessions will then open up into an interactive discussion on the key issues raised, giving you the chance to contribute to the debate as well as be updated on topical interests. Suggested workshop topics:

  • Community Engagement – Changing the Public’s Perception of Criminal Justice & Ensure Police Work to a Community’s Priorities
  • Policing for 2012 – What’s Actually Going to Happen Across the UK?
  • Police Efficiency
12:30 Lunch and Networking
13:30

Reforming Policing: Workshop 2

A one-hour workshop which will allow delegates to understand complex areas of specific interest. The sessions will then open up into an interactive discussion on the key issues raised, giving you the chance to contribute to the debate as well as be updated on topical interests. Suggested workshop topics:

  • Optimising Police Use of IT to Fight Crime
  • Crime Analysis – Problems & Solutions
  • Efficient Response – The Use of Technology to Improve Mobility
14:30 Coffee and Networking
14:50

Case Study 3: A Joined up Approach to Combating Serious and Organised Crime

  • Achieving a joined up approach
  • Using intelligence from local sources, including residents and the police to identify problem locations
  • Targeted approaches to crime i.e. taking account of the new communities and high turnover of population
  • Assessing the impact of organised crime on enforcement services
  • Working with the Metropolitan Police and other agencies to reduce crime
  • Undertaking constructive work with perpetrators
  • Improving the quality, coordination and effectiveness of services
  • Achieving positive outcomes in the longer run for young people at risk and those resettling in the community
  • Communication and effective engagement with local people and groups


Speaker tbc, Haringey Council. (Haringey has continued to successfully tackle crime, achieving the best sanctioned detection rates in the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) (invited)
15:10

Case Study 4: Tackling Anti-social Behaviour and Disorder

  • Delivering a sustainable reduction in criminal damage and disorder
  • Changing ways of thinking
  • Youth4em:
    • Community Action Group
    • Identifying concerns: Environmental crime, graffiti, litter,drugs
    • Funding
    • Youth4em Behaviour Policy: NO Drugs, Anti social behaviour, hate crime, under age drinking, bullying
    • Allocating police resources effectively
  • Working together in partnership with young people and the community
  • Collaboration with partners and agencies
  • Impact on the OCU performance
  • Lessons learned


Gordon Scobbie, Assistant Chief Constable, West Midlands Police (invited)(Youth4em is an awards winning anti-social behaviour initiative from the UK)

15:30 Questions and Answers Session
16:00 Close

*programme subject to change without notice

Audience

The audience will be representative of the diversity of the issue and the stakeholders present will include, community safety teams, police & fire authorities, LSPs, CDRPs, drug and alcohol action teams, youth offending teams, town centre managers, neighbourhood wardens, victims support, children’s trusts, ALOs, licensing teams, environmental professionals, planning authorities, community cohesion officers, schools, local criminal justice boards, prison/probation service, central government departments & bodies, unions, academia, the private, legal & voluntary sectors.


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