Police Budget
Each year the Authority must:
- set the Budget and the policing element of the Council Tax (known as the 'precept') for the forthcoming year
- prepare and publish an Annual Statement of Accounts and
- monitor spending throughout the year.
Budget setting
The Authority sets the budget in February each year. In doing so, we determine the level of funding available to policing services in Lincolnshire for the coming financial year.
Councillor Members have a particular responsibility for the budget. The Police Act 1996 says that when setting the budget at least half of the total Members must approve it and those approving it must include more than half of the Councillor Members.
Police budgets are funded by a combination of Home Office Grant, Revenue Support Grant, redistributed Non Domestic Rates and the Council Tax, which is raised locally from the households of Lincolnshire.
The National Funding Formula
The Government determines each year the total level of support which it is prepared to give to the Police service nationally. This is then allocated to individual Police Authorities using the Police Funding Formula, which is intended to reflect the relative spending needs of Authorities and takes into account a wide range of data on population characteristics and crime in an area.
Once the Authority has been notified of its grant entitlement for the coming year, it considers the overall policing needs of the County and, advised by the Chief Constable and the Treasurer, decides on an appropriate level for the Council Tax and the total budget.
Local Policing Summary
The Local Policing Summary is a document that includes an annual report setting out the Force's achivements and budgetary information. We publish the Local Policing Summary as part of the Council Tax Leaflet that accompanies your council tax bill.
You can download the Local Policing Summary through our Publications section on this website.