10. Our overall budget £27 million Frontline policing (neighbourhood policing and response) £18 million Crime investigation and intelligence £9 million Armed response, roads policing, helicopter, dogs, etc £5 million Custody unit, preparing cases for court £8 million Answering calls and response management £16 million Finance, HR, Training, etc £24 million Building, cars, IT and equipment
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18. Melksham Area Board Wednesday 2 February 2011 A Community Campus for Melksham Lucy Murray Brown Workplace Transformation Programme
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38. Melksham Community Area Partnership Service Campus Consultation Chris Holden - Chair
39. Community Area Partnerships are independent and open, and are set up to represent the views of the Community to Wiltshire Council. We have been asked to work with the Area Board to consult on the proposals for the Service Campus. Who we are
40. Consultation Strategy 1. Questionnaire 2. Open days / evening 3. Permanent Displays 4. Meetings with Groups
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42. 2. Open Days / Evening 1. Sat 12 February - OPEN DAY Melksham Town Hall, 1pm - 5pm 2. Thursday 3 March - OPEN EVENING Melksham Assembly Hall, 6pm - 8pm 3. Saturday 12 March - OPEN DAY Melksham Town Hall, 10am - 1pm
43. 3. Permanent Displays Information on display with questionnaires available at: 1. Library 2. Town Hall 3. Empty Shop (Church St)
Good morning/afternoon/evening This presentation will give you information about the plans that Wiltshire Police Authority has developed to meet the spending cuts that are needed. You have an opportunity to have your say about what police services you value by completing the questionnaire cards on your seat. Hand it in as you leave. You will also be given details on how to find out more information online and to complete the questionnaire on the internet if you prefer.
The reality of the government funding cuts is that: Over four years Wiltshire Police Authority’s budget must be reduced by up to £15 million, from £107m to £92m in today’s terms. This means that in four years’ time Wiltshire Police is likely to have 150 fewer officers and 200 fewer police staff. It is our responsibility to ensure that the county continues to have an effective and efficient policing service.
Currently, the total budget for policing in Wiltshire is £107 million. The funding from this comes from government grants and the council tax. This slide shows how our annual budget is spent. You can see that 80% of our total budget is spent on people. As I said, WPA’s budget must be reduced by £15 million over 4 years, The force and authority have developed outline plans to meet that amount. Currently this includes a total of nearly £4 million savings on general expenditure and around £11 million from staff savings. We now want your views on our approach to so far see if we have got our priority right.
So there are no plans to reduce frontline local policing – that means the numbers of officers on patrol and responding to your emergency calls will stay the same. So, in finding the savings we are committed to: Keeping local officers on patrol and keeping the public safe. Responding promptly to emergency 999 calls. Ensuring that general enquiries and non urgent calls are dealt with to an acceptable standard.
So, we we will seek out extra Special Constables with the powers of regular officers, and more Volunteers to provide support. We also plan to make best use of new technology so officers stay on the beat. Examples include officers using hand held mobile devices when on the streets to access Force IT systems and control room staff being able to see where officers are via our Automatic Resource Location System (ARLS). Our current arrangements include a helicopter police air ambulance until 2014.
Through the changes, we aim to save money and provide a more flexible police service across the whole county. We will keep our 11 policing sectors because this way of working mirrors the way other agencies deliver their services. Neighbourhood Policing Teams will continue to be aligned to local authority community area boards or cluster areas in Swindon, so that they can work effectively with other agencies to address community issues Our response policing teams will primarily operate from Swindon, Melksham and Salisbury where our custody centres are based. The specialist policing services (police dogs, roads policing) will remain, while crime investigators, including CID, will work locally alongside response police officers. The Swindon and County divisional structures will be merged, so removing a tier of management and administration. In the proposed new structure Wiltshire Police will have the flexibility to deploy any officer to where they are most needed.
£15 million can’t be removed from budgets without affecting the service you receive in some non -urgent areas. Some support services, eg administrative and criminal justice processes will be streamlined. One way of doing this will be by using what’s called ‘local resolution’, a new way of sorting out difficulties between people by getting them to reach agreement without formal police or court action. Providing leaner support services means it could take longer before the phone is answered for general enquiries or for processing some administrative requests.
We will offer public facing services alongside other agencies to ensure we stay accessible to you (i.e. through local councils, libraries) while reviewing the number of police stations we maintain. When you take part in our consultation survey you will see a specific question that asks you about how you prefer to access policing services.
Please take part in the consultation survey by filling in the questionnaire cards on your seat and handing them in at the end of the meeting. You can also see more information about the proposals on the Wiltshire Police Authority website www.wiltshire-pa.gov.uk and complete the survey there. If you do not have internet access fill in the card tonight and if you want more information give me your details and we will provide you a paper copy of the plans – or you can call 01380 734022 at another time and ask for them to be sent to you. Wiltshire Police Authority will take into account all comments and views that are expressed and we’ll feedback the key points that people make to us as we move forward in our work with Wiltshire Police to deliver the required savings. We will ensure that Wiltshire Police provide a standard of service that continues to protect and serve the people in this county.
