Cambridgeshire Police Authority Slide 1 Cambridgeshire Police Authority Your police force - January/ February 2010 consultation

Cambridgeshire Police Authority Slide 2 Cambridgeshire Police Authority Consultation Today we would like to speak to you about:- the number of officers and staff we have our priorities, what we have done and how well our tight financial picture, and our future outlook

Cambridgeshire Police Authority Slide 3 Cambridgeshire Police Authority Consultation FIRST Officers and staff…..

Cambridgeshire Police Authority Slide 4 Map of the Cambs force area

Cambridgeshire Police Authority Slide 5 National/Regional/Local Context Police Officers PCSOsPolice Staff Nationally143,50016,80084,800 Countywide1, ,011 Locally:- Northern Central Southern

Cambridgeshire Police Authority Slide 6 Police officers supporting divisionsPolice Officers Control Room/Police Service Centre29 Tactical Firearms Unit45 Helicopter & Dogs Unit25 Roads Policing94 Investigations205 Training23 Planning/Community Safety31 Elsewhere36

Cambridgeshire Police Authority Slide 7 National/Regional/Local Context Total £125.6m – 5 th lowest spending per head of population

Cambridgeshire Police Authority Slide 8 Workload We employ one police officer for every 540 people (national average is one for 377) i.e. we have the fourth lowest number of police officers per head of pop. in the country. To get to the average would require a further 570 officers…

Cambridgeshire Police Authority Slide 9 Workload We employ one member of police (civilian) staff for every 759 people (national average is one for 637) i.e. we have the sixth lowest number of police staff per head of pop. in the country.

Cambridgeshire Police Authority Slide 10 Cambridgeshire Police Authority Consultation SECONDLY what we have done and how well

Cambridgeshire Police Authority Slide 11 Responding to your calls We deal with 4,000 incidents per week We receive 2, calls per week We receive 5, calls per week Last year:- We answered over 90% of 999 calls within 10 seconds We answered 92% of 0345 (previously 0845) calls within 30 seconds

Cambridgeshire Police Authority Slide 12 National, regional and local work Last year’s priorities:  Changing communities (population growth)  Vulnerable victims  Prolific offenders  Organised Crime Groups, vulnerable neighbourhoods, ASB, acquisitive crime, serious and violent sexual crime

Cambridgeshire Police Authority Slide 13 National, regional and local work Current year’s priorities:  Delivery against Policing Pledge – increasing public confidence in what we do  Reduce crime and ASB  Vulnerable communities  Reduce serious acquisitive crime  Counter terrorism and extremism  Tackle serious and organised crime

Cambridgeshire Police Authority Slide 14 Cambridgeshire Police Authority Consultation THIRDLY Let’s turn and look at our tight budget

Cambridgeshire Police Authority Slide 15 Budget The Government will increase our grant by 3% in 2010/11 We have no prospect of more money from them The rest of our money comes from you – in council tax The Government expects council tax increases next year to be less than the 3% average this year.

Cambridgeshire Police Authority Slide 16 Budget A growing local share 1% additional spending = 3% council tax increase

Cambridgeshire Police Authority Slide 17 Council Tax 2009/10 Our Band D tax this year is £164.70, or £3.17 per week. The national average of £ Note: In Peterborough 83% of households are below Band D In Cambridgeshire and Peterborough 67% of households are below Band D Conclusion: we compare closely with others…

Cambridgeshire Police Authority Slide 18 Tough times but Government has said that Policing is a priority. It will ensure sufficient funding is available to maintain the current number of police officers and PCSOs £500m national policing cost savings More Value for Money (VFM) locally A look ahead – 2011/12 onwards

Cambridgeshire Police Authority Slide 19 What more can we do? We have things we must do next year We can’t do everything! We are efficient but can get better – that’s about how we use our limited numbers of officers

Cambridgeshire Police Authority Slide 20 The year ahead – proposed priorities ASB – ‘People’s Priority’ voted by you! Serious acquisitive crime Reducing re-offending Violent crime & domestic violence Counter terrorism Serious sexual offences Organised crime groups Vulnerable and changing communities

Cambridgeshire Police Authority Slide 21 Have we got our priorities right? We can’t promise the earth but we are listening and will do all we can to incorporate your suggestions into our planning. Please take a few minutes to fill in the brief survey on your seats.