The Changing Face of Policing, Sir Peter Fahy, SOCEX 2015

Changing Face of Policing

Sir Peter Fahy

Context• Strategic Policing Requirement• Increased Inspection Activity and Scrutiny• Role of the NCA• Austerity and a number of forces nearing the brink

of financial viability• ACPO to NPCC transition• Significant Operational stretch in both CT and OC

capabilities• Lack of consistency in regional offer around the

country• Imminent General Election• Force Mergers Debate

Changing nature of crime

Threat of violent extremism

Greater social dislocation and inequality

Protecting society and helping keep people safe

Common Challenges

Economic uncertainty

A more interconnected world

Political instability

Greater transparency, accountability regulation and inspection activity


Crime has Fallen Across Europe and North America


Less theft, burglary and robbery, more personal crime and more between

people known to each other

More cybercrime and internet enabled fraud

More about harm than just narrow definitions of crime

Detecting Crime

Less about interrogation and identification by witnesses


Now about CCTV, DNA, mobile phone usage, ANPR, GPS tracking and digital forensics

Detecting Crime

Now less about whether we have the technology to prevent and

detect crime

More about whether politicians and the public will allow us to use it


Traditional criminal justice system struggles to provide a response to serious organised

criminality and offences involving vulnerable victims

Forces increasingly seeing integrated working with other agencies as only way to

reduce reactive demand and tackle underlying causes of harm

Continuing Budget Reductions

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

2016/17

2017/18

Cumu-la-tive sav-ings (£m)

49.6 89.2 101.7 113.2 161.3 207.2 236.3

£m sav-ing needed in year

49.6 39.6 12.5 11.5 48.1 45.9 29.1

£25.0

£75.0

£125.0

£175.0

£225.0

GMP Profile

Number of Sworn Police Officers8000

6000

4000

2010

Year2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018


GMP Profile

Home Secretary’s Ambition

“Improving collaboration between police and agencies working on CT and organised crime remains a high priority and an area where I expect to see substantial progress. I know this was recently discussed at the Police Counter Terrorism Board (PCTB) and I look forward to the development and delivery of an ambitious programme of work”

Rt Hon Theresa May MP

CT/OC Collaboration Board

“To design and lead a national programme to deliver joint capabilities that strengthen the police and NCA’s national, regional and local response to the national security threats posed by Terrorism and Organised Crime”

Workstreams

The below workstreams have been identified as presenting priority opportunities for collaboration:

• Borders• Cyber• Estates• Prisons• Financial Investigation• Surveillance• Technical Operations

But increasing realisation that work has to include all 43 forces and existing regional networks

Money and complexity takes you in one direction

Opportunities• To develop a new model for how specialist capabilities

are delivered across law enforcement • To expand this work to encompass the wider SPR threat

capabilities• To enable forces to mitigate the impact of budget

reductions on local policing delivery• To develop a more comprehensive performance

framework for Organised Crime• To develop a shared definition of community harm to

inform tasking of shared/collaborative assets • Already supported by Chiefs Council, APCC, HMIC as

way forward

Critical Success Factors

• Leadership and ownership of this work

• Effective stakeholder engagement

• Openness of forces/agencies to releasing details relating to spend and capability requirements

• Ability to identify ‘what works’ from existing collaborations.

• Ownership of and confidence in the resultant structure by local forces/PCCs

• Engagement from forces at strategic and operational level

The future is layered

The Changing Face of Policing, Sir Peter Fahy, SOCEX 2015

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