The economic climate demands greater austerity. The challenge for the police service is to reduce spending without reducing public confidence. Forces and authorities now have to find real efficiencies and productivity savings.
A transformational approach is necessary for achieving significant long-term benefits. This starts with an analysis of the threat, harm, and risk in the communities that the police protect and serve. It explicitly directs police resources to their priorities. A transformational approach requires substantial organisational change; a police workforce that uses the best mix of warranted officers, Police Community Support Officers, and police staff along with effective collaboration with other agencies. The whole system has to work well to deliver long-term savings and transformation takes time and effort.
Police forces and authorities can use these case studies to compare their own practice with the transformational approaches used by some forces and authorities to sustain savings and protect priority services.
Read the case studies for sustaining value for money in the police service: