POLICING is not a business and must not return to the dark days of target setting, Essex Police Federation has warned.<\/p>\n
The Home Office has indicated that \u2018outcomes\u2019 in key crime areas are likely to be measured in return for the 20,000 extra officers being promised for the frontline.<\/p>\n
Home Secretary Priti Patel said at the recent National Police Chiefs’ Council and Association of Police and Crime Commissioners summit that she wanted the public to \u2018see the difference\u2019 the fresh recruits would make and that success would be measured against a set of national policing outcomes.<\/p>\n
Priorities are likely to include reducing murder, serious violence and neighbourhood crime.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is an age-old issue of treating the police service as a business,\u201d Steve said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn business, in commerce, you have targets, you have figures, you have objectives. It\u2019s more clearly defined. The greatest measure of success in policing would be an absence of crime. The fact is that there\u2019s nothing there to measure. So straight away we\u2019re on a sticky wicket.\u201d<\/p>\n
The service has started to move away from that culture, Steve added, with new misconduct regulations now focusing on a more learning and improvement environment.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s also so much officers do a daily basis that is impossible to measure or set targets for.<\/p>\n
\u201cCulturally, we\u2019ve moved away from a chasing figures culture, and I think that\u2019s healthy.\u00a0 I would hate to see us slip back into it,\u201d Steve said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut at the same time, we have to be; we must be, accountable to our political leadership. We must be targeted. We must be seen to deliver.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll those things are valid and important. My personal view is that it might be, dare I say it, a lazy option to measure and judge that accountability just by targets.\u201d<\/p>\n
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