POLICING AND THE CHALLENGE OF IMPROVING SERVICE
31st March 2011
There has been a great deal of publicity in recent weeks about how the Police Authority and the Force are working to deliver improved services against a background of severely restricted Government funding.
The message we have given consistently is that we can only achieve our objectives by embracing change across a wide range of policing and non-frontline operations.
.We have already established a framework for closer collaborative and partnership working ; the Force divisional structure is being replaced by a streamlined “one Force” approach and we anticipate a number of back office functions being provided jointly with other Forces and/or other local public sector partners.
At the same time the Authority has formally begun a process to investigate whether the private sector would be interested in providing services to us.
Several Forces have already formed strategic partnerships with the private sector to deliver some of their back office functions.
Authority Chairman Barry Young said:’ The Authority is clear that it will take every opportunity to explore how doing things differently might help us to maintain or even improve policing services for the people of Lincolnshire. Working with the private sector is one of a number of ways in which we may be able to derive benefits that will last well into the future ‘.