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Surrey Police and Crime Commissioner Police and Crime Plan 2018-2020
2 POLICE AND CRIME PLAN FOR SURREY 2018 - 2020
Contents
3 Introduction from the Police and Crime Commissioner
and Chief Constable
4-5 Summary of priorities
6-7 Priority 1: Tackling Crime and Keeping People Safe
8-9 Priority 2: Building Confident Communities
10 Priority 3: Supporting Victims
11 Priority 4: Preventing Harm
12 Priority 5: Making Every Pound Count
13 Priority 6: A Force fit for the future
14-15 Holding the Chief Constable to Account
16 Contact Us
Police and Crime Commissioners are elected every four years to
oversee policing, victim services and community safety for each police
force area in England and Wales. David Munro is your Police and Crime
Commissioner for Surrey. David is responsible for overseeing the work
of Surrey Police, holding the Chief Constable to account and helping
to tackle the crime issues that matter to people in Surrey. He is also
required to set out a Police and Crime Plan for the county.
POLICE AND CRIME PLAN FOR SURREY 2018 - 2020 3
Introduction from the Police and Crime Commissioner
Shortly after my election as Police made by Surrey Police with improved attracting and retaining competent
and Crime Commissioner in 2016, grades across the board in recent and capable officers and staff.
I issued a new Police and Crime inspections.
Plan; a key document setting out the I would like to thank the police
priorities for policing, crime reduction Over the next two years I want to officers, staff, volunteers and
and community safety in Surrey. Two see Surrey Police, my office and partners who tirelessly work to make
years into my term of office, much partners build on this progress. Surrey a safe place.
has been achieved. I have appointed The Force must continue to stay
ahead of new crimes, crack down on David Munro
Chief Constable Nick Ephgrave who
emerging trends as they occur (such Police and Crime Commissioner
has in turn established a stable top
team at Surrey Police. I have reviewed as the current increase in burglary) for Surrey
the funding required for the Force and keep all of Surrey’s diverse
and provided a more secure financial communities safe. Victims of crime
basis on which it can consolidate its must be properly supported and I
plans for the future. I have reviewed will work with the Chief Constable
the projects funded by my office to maintain the high levels of
to make sure they improve safety confidence people have in
for the residents of Surrey, with a Surrey Police.
particular emphasis on reducing re-
offending. A new policing model has This is a crucial time for policing as
been successfully implemented in every force looks to play its part in
Surrey, allowing the police to balance achieving the Policing Vision for 2025.
demands from serious and complex I will work to ensure that Surrey
crimes with the need to retain Police is fit for the future by making
visible, local policing. Partnerships the best of the available technology
with local authorities, businesses for policing and develop our estate
and third sector organisations have to support our workforce and best
been reinvigorated. Importantly, serve the public. I will keep a focus
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate for on efficiency; exploring innovative
Police and Fire & Rescue Services ways to make savings; using available
has recognised the improvements resources to their best effect; and
Introduction from the Chief Constable
I am pleased to endorse this police Together with the PCC, we have
and crime plan, built upon the firm ambitions to become market leaders
foundations laid by its predecessor. in what we do, providing an improved
In the last two years, much has service to the Surrey Public. To make
been achieved by Surrey Police; we this happen, we have maintained
have built and maintained a stable our simple aim for Surrey Police – to
senior officer team, designed and make Surrey as safe as it can be. Our
implemented a new, sustainable ‘plan on a page’ supplements this
local policing model, strengthened police and crime plan and provides
and enhanced our detective capacity the detail behind our aspiration. We
and capability and done all this in the will be focusing on becoming a truly
context of making significant savings problem solving force, underpinned
and efficiencies. by a healthy culture that values and
Our independent inspections have invests in our officers and staff, to
seen improvements in our assessment enable them to be the very best at
in all areas, with Surrey Police being what they do.
graded as ‘good’ across all areas.
Nick Ephgrave QPM
This, however, is just the beginning. Chief Constable, Surrey Police
4 POLICE AND CRIME PLAN FOR SURREY 2018 - 2020
Summary of priorities
Tackling Crime and Keeping that damage local and work with those
Surrey Safe
areas or make people who re-offend to break
I will hold Surrey
feel unsafe the cycle of crime
Police to account
Supporting Victims Making Every Pound Count
for preventing and
solving more crimes, When people are I will fight for fair
identifying and tackling victims of crime, they funding for Surrey Police
their root causes, and need quality and timely and target resources at
pursuing offenders to support to help repair the front line
keep Surrey safe the harm done and A Force Fit for the Future
rebuild lives I will work with the
Building Confident
Communities Preventing Harm Chief Constable to
I want to bring Surrey’s Together with police ensure that Surrey
communities together and partners I will Police is well placed
to work with the police identify and support and properly equipped
and other public vulnerable people in to meet the challenges
services to solve issues Surrey to reduce harm, of the future
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6 POLICE AND CRIME PLAN FOR SURREY 2018 - 2020
Priority 1: Tackling Crime and Keeping Surrey Safe
I will hold Surrey Police to account for preventing and solving more crimes,
identifying and tackling their root causes, and pursuing offenders to keep
Surrey safe
• Combatting the threat of • Serious and Organised Crime investigate more serious criminality
terrorism Serious and organised crime groups, and a dedicated safeguarding
It is vitally important that partners whilst often hidden to wider society, unit focuses on offences against
continue to work together to are responsible for serious harm to vulnerable people. Each of the 11
prevent and protect Surrey from the individual victims and to the social boroughs in Surrey has a dedicated
threat of terrorism. I will continue and economic wellbeing of our Safer Neighbourhood Team to
to review anti-terrorism plans and work with partners to address the
communities. These groups carry out
root causes of crime and tackle
the resources at our disposal to drug dealing, fraud, modern slavery,
those issues which can blight local
ensure that Surrey Police, working human trafficking and cybercrime.
communities.
with partners locally, regionally Although Surrey is a safe place
and nationally, can keep on top of overall, police and partners must • Maintaining a local policing
the critical task of deterring and stay vigilant in their efforts to tackle presence
defeating terrorists. I will review these groups, many of whom are Residents of Surrey tell me how
partnership strategies and actions to internationally based or travel from much they value seeing a policing
make sure they are working towards London and elsewhere into Surrey to presence in their local areas. Whilst
the prevention of terrorism. commit crime. we need to tackle the crime issues
• Preventing and solving I have outlined above, I recognise
• Problem solving
that policing needs to be in touch
crimes that cause the most Two years ago, Surrey Police with local communities. Surrey
harm introduced a new policing model Police needs to carefully balance
Policing is becoming more complex. aimed at making the best use of resources between tackling the most
There has been increased reporting its policing resource. This model damaging of crimes and keeping a
of the types of crime that are has provided each of the three visible, local presence. I will require
often committed “behind closed divisions with dedicated Area Policing the Chief Constable to maintain
doors”, such as domestic violence, Teams, responsible for responding Surrey’s well established emphasis
sexual offences and child abuse to calls and investigating crime. In on neighbourhood policing and to
and exploitation. Reports of hate addition, specialist teams continue to do what he can to improve the local
crime have risen. This increase in
reporting is welcomed as, for many
years, these types of offences have
been hidden, with victims reluctant
to come forward. Surrey Police has
focused more resources to target
those perpetrating these crimes
and to support victims who often
have been caused a great deal of
physical or emotional harm. I will
continue to support and scrutinise
the Force’s plans in this area. I will
work with Surrey Police to implement
the Government’s Serious Violence
Strategy. Violence associated with
gangs and knife crime is thankfully
rare in Surrey, but we will tackle
violent and exploitative criminal
activity and work with partners to
prevent young people from going
down the wrong path.
POLICE AND CRIME PLAN FOR SURREY 2018 - 2020 7
visibility of policing, including an • Contacting the police through social media. These different
online and social media presence, In order to feel safe, people need to options to access the police must
within the resources available. know police will answer their calls continue to be developed.
and send officers when a police
• Dealing with crime and anti- presence is needed. Surrey Police • Roads policing
social behaviour has a good record of answering 999 Another key part of keeping Surrey
Surrey is one of the safest places to calls, with the vast majority answered residents safe is working towards
live in the country but is not immune within 10 seconds. In times of high safer roads. Surrey’s network of
to crime and anti-social behaviour. demand and crisis the police quite roads is extensive and diverse. Police,
In common with national trends, rightly prioritise calls to 999 over partners and the public need to work
violent and acquisitive offences – for those to the 101 non-emergency together to promote safe use of the
example burglary, theft of cars, farm number, which means people roads by all users – cars, commercial
machinery and bikes, online and sometimes have to wait longer than vehicles, motorbikes, cyclists, horse-
other fraud offences – are rising in they’d want to. Great improvements riders, pedestrians and others - to
our county. Surrey residents are have been made in the timeliness of respond to accidents when they
particularly concerned about recent answering 101 calls in the last two happen and to deal robustly with
increases in burglary. Parts of our years and I want to see this continue. road traffic offenders. I will be
county also suffer from rural and Over the last few years we have seen supporting Surrey Police and Surrey
wildlife crime. I will scrutinise what the emergence of new technology County Council in the DriveSmart
Surrey Police is doing to prevent and which allows more people to contact partnership initiative to make roads
tackle these issues. the Force via online reporting and safer.
“A new model for local policing in Surrey has delivered more
resources to deal with serious and high harm crime as well as
dedicated Area Policing and Safer Neighbourhood Teams.”
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Priority 2: Building Confident Communities
I want to bring Surrey’s communities together to work with the police and
other public services to solve issues that damage local areas or make
people feel unsafe.
• Engagement with concerns and communicate with local more people to set up or join a
Surrey Police people as to what actions are being Neighbourhood Watch scheme to
I want to build on the spirit of taken to address them. help protect their local area and I will
cooperation between police, work with Surrey Police to make sure
• Encourage communities to these schemes are supported.
partners and communities to ensure
continued engagement and support get involved
in tackling those issues that concern I wish to do more to encourage • Working with all of Surrey’s
people the most. My office and communities to get even more diverse communities
Surrey Police will ensure there are a involved in keeping Surrey safe. There Surrey’s communities are diverse
variety of appropriate ways in which are many volunteering opportunities, and wide ranging and I aim to make
people can engage with the police, including the Special Constabulary sure that everyone can have a voice
including local meetings (where and Independent Custody Visitors. on policing issues. Some crimes
there is a specific issue of concern), The successful Cadet Scheme has will impact on certain communities
social media and the “In the Know” seen young people from a wide or groups more than others - be
community messaging system. range of communities get involved it rural communities, town centre
Police must understand community in policing. I want to encourage communities, black and minority
“A new police cadet scheme has seen a wide range of Surrey
young people get involved in policing.”
POLICE AND CRIME PLAN FOR SURREY 2018 - 2020 9
ethnic (BME) communities, older by providing information through multi-agency Joint Enforcement
people or young people. Surrey young-people-friendly channels and Teams (JETs) over the last few years.
Police will continue to work to reduce formats. I want to help prevent young There are now five JETs based in local
hate crime, where somebody is people from becoming victims of authorities across Surrey and several
targeted because of who they are or online cyber-bullying, sexting and other similar multi-agency projects.
who they are perceived to be. grooming, getting involved in drugs, These teams work with communities
knife crime or gangs and to be better to understand and tackle issues such
Unauthorised encampments have equipped to identify whether the as anti-social behaviour, fly-tipping,
generated much publicity in Surrey, people they engage with (in person rural crime, criminal damage and
particularly over the summer or online) are friend or foe. unauthorised encampments. Over
months. I want to work closely with the next two years I aim to ensure
local authorities, residents and the • Partnership problem solving they better link in with the local
travelling community to identify My office, working with local councils policing teams to make them even
suitable transit sites. and police, has been developing more effective.
Businesses also have a part to play
in creating safe communities. I want
to work with businesses to hear their
concerns, jointly solve problems and
protect employees and customers.
• Children and young people
I will be working on projects with
children and young people in Surrey,
enabling them to make informed
decisions in relation to their own
safety and to have the confidence
to report matters to police when
they have concerns. My office and
Surrey Police will help young people
stay safe by engaging with services
that support young people and
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Priority 3: Supporting Victims
When people are victims of crime, they need quality and timely support to
help repair the harm done and rebuild lives
• Supporting victims of crime their circumstances, require more police and others) to co-commission
and anti-social behaviour specialist, longer-term support to and co-ordinate our spending and
When people in Surrey are victims of rebuild their lives. This includes to continue to make sure we are
people who suffer domestic abuse, collectively improving outcomes for
crime, whether they wish to report it
sexual abuse, children and victims of victims. Commissioning strategies
to police or not, they need excellent
modern slavery. Our funding allows and spending will be transparent
services to help them cope and
many charitable agencies in Surrey and details of what we spend will be
recover. I want to make sure victims
to provide expert, targeted support. I published on the PCC’s website.
of crime are supported to have a
want to continue to work with those
more positive experience of the • Supporting victims and
providers to meet local needs. I
whole criminal justice system – from witnesses through the
also want to ensure that those with
the point of reporting, through to multiple needs in Surrey have been Criminal Justice System
a resolution. The Ministry of Justice identified and that my office works Police, courts, the Crown Prosecution
provides my office with £1.4m a year with partners to commission the Service and others must support
to commission services in Surrey to services required to help get their complainants and witnesses who
help victims and I will ensure those lives back on track. come forward, as well as those
funds are used wisely over the accused of crime, and ensure their
next two years to provide the best • Ensuring value for money journey through the criminal justice
possible support. and collaboration system is as smooth as possible. My
Funding provided to my office from office is carrying out work to engage
• Providing specialist services the Government to support victims with people who have an involvement
There are victims of crime and in Surrey needs to be spent to the with the Criminal Justice System to
survivors who, due to the nature best effect. My office will be working identify where improvements can
of what happened to them or with our partners (councils, courts, be made.
“The PCC joined the Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Centre,
based in Guildford, to mark Sexual Abuse and Sexual Violence
Awareness Week”POLICE AND CRIME PLAN FOR SURREY 2018 - 2020 11
Priority 4: Preventing harm
Together with police and partners I will identify and support vulnerable
people in Surrey to reduce harm, and work with those who re-offend to
break the cycle of crime.
• Identifying vulnerable people contact with the criminal justice crime. My office has developed a
and reducing harm system and mental ill health. strategy to reduce reoffending and
Where a person is vulnerable over the next two years will build on
• Missing people recently funded projects to provide
as a result of their situation or
circumstances and unable to In Surrey there are almost 2,000 accommodation for those leaving
protect themselves from harm or cases of vulnerable people, including prison, to work with prisons and
exploitation, I will aim to ensure children, going missing every year, probation on “through the gate”
resources are there to support often time and time again. Most services and to support people to
them. Critical to preventing harm are younger people who may go stay away from committing crime.
is the ability of professionals to missing upwards of 20 times. Surrey A new project (known as ‘Surrey
identify vulnerability at the earliest Police will work closely with Surrey Checkpoint’) will aim to divert
opportunity. I am working with Surrey County Council, children homes, offenders away from crime and deal
Police so that the right support is private providers and hospitals with the causes of an individual’s
in place to break this cycle, to both to find missing people and put in offending to reduce the likelihood of
improve the chances of a better life place appropriate support. I will them committing crime in the future.
for the individual but also to make hold Surrey Police and partners to
account for the appropriate sharing There are strong links between
better use of police resources.
of information and reducing repeat women’s experience of domestic
• Supporting those with mental missing people cases. or sexual abuse and coercive
health needs relationships, and their criminal
• Reducing reoffending offending. The response of criminal
Police regularly spend time dealing
Surrey Police aims to break the cycle justice agencies to women offenders
with people who are experiencing
of crime by working with criminal affected by these issues is key to
mental health crisis. This is not always
justice partners and charities to breaking the cycle of victimisation
the best use of police resource and
target suitable offenders and help and offending and an area I will be
does not provide the individual with
to stop them continuing to commit working on with partners to address.
the specialist help they need. I will
work with partners in health and local
authorities to ensure that provision
is consistent, timely and appropriate.
I will do what I can to support
innovative solutions to improve
partnership working, such as the
initiative by Surrey Police whereby
trained mental health practitioners
work in the police contact centre.
• Help for those with
multiple disadvantage
Over the next two years I plan to
fund a number of projects to support “A new “One Stop Shop” project providing a range of support services to
those with multiple disadvantage. help those on probation from returning to a life of crime has opened in
Surrey has recently become a Guildford. The joint initiative is being helped by funding from the Office of
“Making Every Adult Matter” (MEAM) the Police and Crime Commissioner who have joined forces with the Kent,
area. This national initiative will Surrey and Sussex Community Rehabilitation Company (KSS CRC) and a
see statutory agencies and the number of local partner agencies. The scheme is open to people currently
voluntary sector working together subject to community or suspended sentence orders and licenses who can
to transform the lives of people in access free advice, information and support from a range of local services
Surrey experiencing a combination all under one roof.”
of homelessness, substance misuse,12 POLICE AND CRIME PLAN FOR SURREY 2018 - 2020
Priority 5: Making Every Pound Count
I will fight for fair funding for Surrey police and target resources at the
front line
• Preserving the front-line are working together in the South I decided to increase council tax
All police forces need to be as East on an ambitious collaboration by that amount for 2018/19; not a
efficient and effective as possible programme to improve our decision I took lightly. I commit not
and Surrey Police must continue to operational effectiveness and deliver to raise council tax above the level
look for savings in order to balance savings to invest back into policing. absolutely necessary and will be
its budget. I want to make sure these robust in seeking out savings in order
• Funding to minimise the amount I ask local
savings, as far as possible, preserve
the front line. Our savings plans I continue to work with Government taxpayers to fund.
over the next two years include a and my fellow PCCs to secure fair and
proper funding for policing and I am • Effective and efficient
revised way of providing specialist
providing information to influence Criminal Justice System
services such as roads policing,
any new national funding formula. As well as overseeing the police, I
firearms officers and dogs units
PCCs have been successful in recent have a role to play in ensuring all
to make better use of resources.
years in maintaining levels of police those working within the criminal
I will ensure Surrey Police review
funding in cash terms. But increases justice system are focused on making
their arrangements for learning
in demand, inflation and increased sure it operates well. Those involved
and development and seek further
officer pay still leaves a funding gap. in the system should find it to be
savings from support services such
The Government has given PCCs efficient and effective. I will work
as finance and HR. I will continue to
freedom to raise council tax locally with courts, the Crown Prosecution
look for savings in my own office as
by up to £12 per household (Band Service, probation and prisons to
well as in the wider Force.
D) to protect front-line policing. bring offenders to justice swiftly and
• Eliminate waste and Following consultation and detailed better support complainants and
inefficiency consideration of the police budget, witnesses.
Over the years, Surrey Police has
reviewed all of its business areas
and made a great deal of savings. I
will make sure the Force continues
to identify any areas of inefficiency
and improves its processes wherever
possible, including making the best
use of the current and emerging
operational technology such as
Body Worn Video (BWV) and mobile
technology to record crimes.
Police systems and processes
need to minimise any unnecessary
duplication or bureaucracy.
• Collaboration
The Chief Constable and I will work
with other PCCs and forces, both
regionally and nationally, to be at
the forefront of work to re-design
services to equip policing for the
future. Criminal gangs and terrorists
“Body Worn Video is making the best use
don’t work to county boundaries of technology to record crimes, provide
and the continued development
of technology means criminals can evidence to the courts, help victims and
have an impact on Surrey residents
from anywhere in the world. We
help keep police officers safe”POLICE AND CRIME PLAN FOR SURREY 2018 - 2020 13
Priority 6: A Force fit for the future
I will work with the Chief Constable to ensure that Surrey Police is well
placed and properly equipped to meet the challenges of the future
• Estates strategy ensure Surrey Police is an attractive equipped and trained to perform well
The Chief Constable and I are organisation for people to join. I in their roles.
working towards a new estate, fit want to build on the existing good
for the future. Over the next 5 to 10 work to support the well-being of • Ability to meet future
years the Surrey Police estate and staff, ensuring the best people are demands
the way Surrey Police works will be recruited to join and want to stay with Surrey Police and partners need to be
transformed. Modern, efficient and Surrey Police. This means making the able to meet the demands of today
flexible working environments will best of new opportunities such as but also plan for the future. I will make
reduce costs, provide better value for apprentice programmes, the Policing sure robust plans are in place for
money and enhance conditions for Education Qualification Framework potential events, such as terrorism,
our officers and staff. Old buildings and improved training to attract and flooding, or national cyber-attacks. I
will be replaced with a new modern retain people, across a wide range will also scrutinise how Surrey Police
estate to reduce inefficiencies, of communities. I will support the keeps ahead of the latest crime trends
meaning we can invest as much Chief Constable in his aim to develop – such as new ways of defrauding the
funding as possible in officers and Surrey Police’s culture into one public, Modern Slavery and emerging
staff. I have announced the intention where staff are empowered to take drug networks. I will work with the
to seek a new Headquarters site responsibility, be innovative and work Chief Constable to ensure Surrey
in the centre of Surrey within the together to meet Surrey’s needs. I Police plays its part in meeting the
next 5 years and to sell other sites, will help strive for a workforce which national Policing Vision 2025. I will
including the current Mount Browne is more representative of the diverse scrutinise the training and skills of
HQ in Guildford. This will clearly take community which it serves and staff to ensure they are equipped for
time and requires detailed planning, make sure that staff are developed, the future.
but over the next two years I will
work with Surrey Police to develop
these plans and look for a suitable
location for the new HQ. However,
I will ensure the plans include the
retention of a police base in every
district in Surrey.
• Technology
Over the remainder of my term of
office, I will oversee Surrey Police
in its delivery of a new ICT strategy
that will be fit to meet the future
policing needs of the Force. This
includes properly equipping police
officers and staff to carry out their
roles, having efficient back office
systems to support business delivery
and working with other forces in the
South East to jointly put in technology
to aid future collaborative working.
Surrey Police are also are bringing in “The PCC and Chief Constable are
new national ICT systems which will
help the service in England and Wales working towards a new estate, fit for the
be more joined up and efficient.
future and provide a modern, efficient
• Being an attractive employer
I will work with the Chief Constable to
and flexible working environment.”14 POLICE AND CRIME PLAN FOR SURREY 2018 - 2020
Holding the Chief Constable to Account
In my first two years of office, I Partnership Working will robustly scrutinise future financial
have appointed a Chief Constable Successful delivery of this plan will be savings and plans.
who, together with his top team, dependent on my office and Surrey
is providing strong leadership and Police working alongside others:
Grant Giving and
direction for the Force. We have regional police forces; emergency Commissioning
signed a concordat which sets out services; local councils; community As Police and Crime Commissioner,
the expectations of our professional partnerships and voluntary groups. in addition to core police funding,
relationship with each other. I want We all have the same aim: to make I will receive £1.4m in 2018/19 to
to continue to foster an environment Surrey a safer place. I will foster good commission services which support
where I can hold the Chief Constable relationships and provide leadership, victims of crime to help them cope
to account for delivering Surrey’s governance, scrutiny and support and recover. Around £0.4m of this
Police and Crime Plan, whilst also within partnerships as required. is spent on providing general victim
being constructive and supportive. I support services, offered to all victims
will also ensure the Chief Constable Policing Budget and Council of crime. The remainder of the fund
promotes ethical behaviour in Surrey Tax of just less than £1m is spent on
Police and embeds the College of As Police and Crime Commissioner, specialist victim services through
Policing Code of Ethics. I receive all funding relating to the award of grants. Recipients
policing in Surrey. It is my role to set in 2018/19 will include domestic
My office runs the Independent a revenue and capital budget for abuse outreach services, support
Custody Visiting Scheme, in which Surrey Police and determine the level services for victims of rape and
volunteers from across Surrey check of council tax raised to fund policing. sexual offences, women’s refuges
on the welfare of detainees in police For 2018/19, a gross revenue budget and services to support child abuse
custody. I also scrutinise how Surrey of £214.6m has been set for Surrey victims.
Police deals with complaints and my Police. Of this, £212.5m is delegated
office will be preparing to take on a to the Chief Constable to fund the In 2018/19, £800k has been set aside
greater role in dealing with appeals delivery of operational policing. Most from the overall PCC’s budget for
when new complaint legislation of this, some 86%, is spent on staffing funding community safety projects
comes in during 2019. costs. Other costs include supplies, including those which will reduce
premises, transport and travel. reoffending. In the last two years my
This plan has been developed office has moved away from short
with the Chief Constable and his Of the total funding, £2.1m is term funding of an array of projects
leadership team. He has given retained by the Office of the Police to a more focussed commission
his support to the plan and a and Crime Commissioner of which process to allow longer term planning
commitment to meeting the £0.8m is set aside for commissioning for those seeking to reduce crime
priorities set out within it. I don’t community safety services. The and disorder.
believe in setting a raft of targets, Commissioner’s office budget is
but there are some key outcomes I currently set at £1.3m and I have Details of the criteria for awarding
will expect to see delivered over my already made savings on this amount grants and how to apply for a grant
term of office, particularly around when compared to previous years. from the PCC’s Victim Support
improvements to the 101 non- Fund, Community Safety Fund and
emergency number, better treatment Surrey Police’s budget is funded from Reducing Reoffending Fund can be
of victims, responding to concerns a combination of central government found on the Surrey PCC website
of residents and making savings grants of £99.3m and council tax through the dedicated Funding Hub.
to invest in frontline policing. I will of £117.2m. In terms of the council
tax element, Band D properties in Equality and Diversity
regularly hold the Chief Constable
and partners to account on the Surrey will pay £236.57 for policing I will develop and maintain good links
delivery of the priorities. This plan will in 2018/19, an increase of 5.3% on with all of the diverse communities in
be underpinned by a Surrey Police the previous year. After consulting Surrey, working with the Independent
delivery plan. with Surrey residents on council tax Advisory Group for Surrey Police,
levels, I took the decision to increase meeting a range of community
I will monitor the performance of the the police element of council tax by groups and consulting widely on
Force against this plan by monitoring 5.3% in order to protect front-line my plans. I support and will oversee
key policing performance indicators policing. In future I will continue to the Surrey Police Equality, Diversity
and ask for progress reports which I campaign for Surrey Police to get its and Human Rights Strategy and I am
will publish on the PCC’s website. fair share of Government Grant and committed to seeing how workforcePOLICE AND CRIME PLAN FOR SURREY 2018 - 2020 15
diversity in Surrey Police can be Strategic Policing Requirement crime; public disorder; large-scale
improved. I am the national lead for Police forces in England and Wales cyber incidents and child sexual
PCC’s on Equality and Diversity issues need to tackle a wide range of abuse.
and will continue to raise issues such threats to keep the public safe. There
as workforce representation and the Commissioners and Chief Constables
are some that go beyond county need to collaborate with others to
importance of tackling hate crimes.
boundaries and which require police ensure there is sufficient capacity to
I also aim to make sure those who forces to provide a joint national deal with national threats. I will work
do go through the criminal justice response. with the Chief Constable to make
system are dealt with fairly and sure Surrey balances its requirement
A Strategic Policing Requirement
effectively. I will work with partners to meet national issues with
(SPR) has been produced by the
to look at equality of service and protecting Surrey locally.
Home Office in consultation with
help to identify those elements that
could be improved. Recent reports the National Police Chiefs Council. Consultation, Reporting and
have shown that some people It describes the main national Review
have a worse experience of the threats for England and Wales and I have consulted on the priorities set
Criminal Justice System than others requires each Police and Crime out within this plan. You can view the
– particularly those from Black and Commissioner and Chief Constable results and my response on the PCC’s
Minority Ethnic (BME) communities. I to provide enough resources from website. I will report progress against
will also continue to scrutinise Surrey their local areas to collectively meet this Police and Crime Plan publically
Police on areas such as stop and the national threats of: terrorism; civil to the Police and Crime Panel and I
search and use of force. emergencies, serious and organised will issue an Annual Report.16 POLICE AND CRIME PLAN FOR SURREY 2018 - 2020
Contact:
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Telephone: 01483 630200
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Guildford
Surrey
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