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Common Purpose with LSPs
West Midlands Police
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Common Purpose with LSPs
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  • The Police cannot reduce crime single handed. Local partners can contribute in a wide range of ways.
 
  • Police authorities are obliged by statute to consult the local community, and many show innovative outreach to hard to reach groups of people.
 
  • The Police role in tackling neighbourhood crime is most relevant to LSPs. The Police are key partners with seats on the DCP board, heavily involved in Safe and Sound Partnership and contributing to other thematic partnerships. 
 
  • Police performance indicators include measures relating to community safety, crime reduction, reducing anti social behaviour, tackling drugs, and community engagement which are also targets for LSPs. Likewise, the DCP’s success in meeting its wider neighbourhood renewal objectives contributes to Police performance.
 
  • The police are committed to working with all partners to co-ordinate call handling procedures to provide the best possible service to the public. Dudley is the best performing borough in the West Midlands Police area in respect of call handling, and West Midlands Police are rated in the top three in the Country.
 
Drivers
 
The Police in England and Wales contribute directly to the Home Office’s Aim “to build a safe, just and tolerant society”. In particular, it contributes to both parts of the Home Office Public Service Agreement 1 (PSA1):
 
  1. Reduce crime and the fear of crime; improve performance overall, including by reducing the gap between the highest crime CDRP areas and the best comparable areas; with specific targets to reduce vehicle crime, domestic burglary, and robbery in the ten Street Crime Initiative areas.
  2. Improve the performance of all police forces, and reduce the performance gap between the best and worst performing forces; and increase the proportion of time spent on frontline duties.
 
The strategies and policies of the police and the Safe and Sound Partnership within the LSP are all driven and informed by the National Policing plan, The Police Authority Policing Plan for the West Midlands and the Local policing Plan, as well as the Audit to Strategy process driven by consultation with our community.
 
The West Midlands Police Force agrees its own regional targets with central government, and targets are agreed at OCU, sector and ultimately beat levels.  As well as targets which directly reflect the Home Office PSA1, there are targets to increase the visibility, accessibility and accountability of officers at neighbourhood level.
 
Inspection and examination of police forces is carried out by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC), taking into consideration the PSA performance targets for policing, local objectives, and other priorities identified by the Home Office or HMIC.
 
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