Mixed Economy Policing

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• Mixed Economy Policing
• Falkirk Priority Crime Unit
• Superintendent Gavin Buist
• Superintendent Robbie McGregor

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The Role of a TypicalPolice Officer
Public Calls
Community Focus
Anti- Social Behaviour
Volume Crime
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Investigating Crime
Crime
Crime
Crime
Crime
Crime
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Investigating Crime

• Of all the tasks associated with volume crime
  investigation
• 15 require the use of coercive police powers
• 85 dont
• All are very time-consuming if done properly
• All are currently impeded by other demands

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Workforce Inefficiencies

• So
• Service to the public was suffering
• Investigations were not particularly efficient
• Performance in certain areas could have been
  improved

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Research and Good Practice

• Surrey Police mixed economy models
• NPIA Workforce Development Team
• The start of a long relationship.

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Towards a New Business Model

• Move from crime report focus to a task focus
• Disaggregate crime investigations into their
  component parts
• Entirely new approach to volume crime
  investigation
• Match staff and core skills to tasks
• Geographical task bundling to maximise
  efficiencies

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Planning Team

• Area Commander
• DCI Crime Operations
• Senior Manager HRD
• Unison
• Scottish Police Federation
• Corporate Management representative
• Project Manager

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Consultation

• Falkirk Area Command Management Team
• Police Board
• Local Officers focus groups and briefing
• Local Community focus groups of users
• Force Policy Group
• Local Media
• And ongoing liaison with Surrey and NPIA

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New Police Staff Roles

• POLICE INVESTIGATIVE ASSISTANT
• Activities a range of investigative tasks,
  including
• Statement-Taking
• Victim/witness liaison
• House-to-house
• Interviewing
• Collecting and identifying productions
• CCTV uplift
• NO POLICE OR COERCIVE POWERS

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New Police Staff Roles

• POLICE TEAM CO-ORDINATOR
• Activities
• Update/search records databases
• Make appointments, schedule and allocate tasks
  to police officers and police staff
• First line of victim witness contact/feedback
• Liaison with other departments and agencies
• BACK OFFICE SUPPORT POST

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Structure

• 1 DS
• 4 DCs (who act as Team leaders)
• 4 PCs (who support the DCs)
• 2 Team Co-ordinators
• 8 Investigative Assistants

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Structure
Team Leader
Team Coordinator
Support PC
Investigative Assistant
Investigative Assistant
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What Have We Achieved?

• New and operational role for police staff
• New career opportunities within the Force
• Realising practical efficiencies in tasking and
  task-bundling
• Fully integrated and dynamic Team
• Police staff fully accepted by colleagues and
  Divisional personnel
• 18 staff carrying the previous workload of 100
  police officers
• Flexibility police staff investigating serious
  crimes
• Uniform officers can be more visible in
  communities.

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Key Outcomes

• Group 3 Volume crime detections in Falkirk up 11
  compared with same period last year Group 4 up
  by 4
• Much more scope for targeted high profile police
  patrols
• More people surveyed think Falkirk area is a safe
  place
• Quality of service improved

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Service delivery outcomes

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The Scotsman 11 July 2008

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The SIOs view

• Having had the services of Fraser and Anne
  for a fortnight, I have to say that I have been
  consistently impressed by their commitment and
  dedication in the face of a high volume of work.
  They certainly took a great burden away from
  their police officer colleagues and I would be
  happy to work with them again in the same
  circumstances.

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The politicians view

• Civilians dont sign up to the level of
  commitment that a sworn police officer does.
  They dont necessarily have the same dedication.
  Its frightening and astonishing that civilians
  can be carrying out the job of police officers in
  such serious crimes.
• Police officers sometimes have to carry out
  fairly menial tasks. Sometime that requires them
  to do jobs that, yes, could be carried out by
  civilians
• Mr XXXXXXX, Labour MSP, quoted in The
  Scotsman, 11 July 2009