NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
The Alliance:From Concept to Reality
Paul Mason-Brown
Alliance Programme Director
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
Professional Background• Deputy Director Warwickshire Police Resources
Directorate (business services)• C/Supt Prog.Mgr of the Warwickshire Police
Organisational Change Programmes
• Supt Strategic Police Force Regional Mergers Programme (West Midlands)
• Background Police Officer in Cheshire Police, West Mercia Police & Warwickshire Police (uniform and armed operations and training)
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
The Alliance Journey...
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
The Alliance Journey...
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
2011 Police Authority Recommendation:
“That a strategic alliance is formed between Warwickshire Police and
West Mercia Police using their resources to deliver all policing
services to the people and communities of Herefordshire, Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin,
Warwickshire and Worcestershire.”
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
Why Us?Undergone Significant
Change
Good Relations
Similar Cultures &
Values
Similar Policing
Challenge
Similar Finances
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
Continuum of Working Together
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
The Financial Position
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED 4
Alliance
WARWICKSHIRE Closingthe Gap
150Forward
150Plus CSR
ExistingResources
£3.5m £14m £9.5m
Finance: Progresson Budget Reductions(2006 to present day)
WEST MERCIA
Closingthe Gap
ExistingResources
SRL
£6m
PftF
£9.8m
CSR
£23.2m
VacancyMgmt
£3m
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
Critical Success Factors
• Single consistent policing model
• Aligned objectives & priorities
• Both forces meet financial timelines
• Proportion of managerial roles decreases
• Communities feel protected & satisfied
• Single Tasking process (Threat/Risk/Harm)
• Strategic Policing Requirement is met
• Proportion of operational workforce increases
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
The Public Focus – Why?• Prioritise budgets on protecting communities from
harm
• Deploy our resources to maximise the protection we offer
• It is the professional operational judgement of both Chief Constables & influence of PCCs
• We retain the largest skilled workforce available to give best protection
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
Not just about cost reduction...
“Why wouldn’t we do this anyway?”
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
Where we are today
Chief Constable Andy Parker
Chief Constable David Shaw
Deputy Chief Constable Neil Brunton
Deputy Chief Constable Simon Chesterman
Local Policing
Protective Services
Enabling Services
Finance
Services Delivered in Alliance
PCC Ron Ball
PCC Bill Longmore
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
Local Policing
• Command and Control
• Civil Disclosure
• Criminal Justice• Custody
• Harm Reduction• Local Investigations,
Patrol
• Safer Neighbourhood Teams.
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
Local Policing Benefits
• Single Operations Centre with intelligent deployment based on threat, risk and harm.
• “Task, not ask!” – Movement of resources against need
• Single firearms licensing unit.
• Rationalisation of the Custody estate.
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
Local Policing Benefits
• Delivering same or better protection.
• Increased visibility by keeping officers out through new practises and mobile data.
• Right Service, First Time
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
Protective Services
• Intelligence• Planning and Delivery
of Major Operations
• Forensics
• Protecting Vulnerable People
• Specialist Operations.
• Major Investigations
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
Protective Service Benefits
• Intelligence targets the greatest harms by tasking and briefing 24/7.
• Specialist teams working across the alliance.
• A single forensics service is delivered 7 days a week from single site.
• A single duties and planning function will maximise resilience and provide co-ordination
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
Protective Service Benefits
• Increased resilience
• Better accredited workforce
• Greater pro-activity in approach.
• National / Legal Compliance.
• Shared expertise over both force areas.
• Regional Influence
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
Enabling Services• Corporate Comms• Business Assurance
& Improvement• Estates• ICT• People Services• Procurement &
Contracts• Transport.
• Enables other areas of the alliance to operate by providing professional services & facilities
• Lean Model – emphasis on ‘must do’
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
Enabling Services Key Benefits• Work programmes focussed on the
development and improvement of service delivery.
• Increased resilience.• Aligned contracts = reduction in contract
management & overall cost• Streamlined – “do it once”• Enhanced purchasing power• Workforce development opportunities and
improved career progression
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
Finance• Ensures all financial resources are used
effectively and efficiently.
• Benefits:– Significant directorate savings– Single way of working– Learning from each other to establish best
practice
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
The Challenges• Organisational Cultures
• Communications
• Bringing two approaches together.
• Significant workforce modernisation – significant post changes and movement.
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
The Challenges
• Sustaining ‘business as usual’ while managing change programmes
• Two Chief Officer + PCC Teams
• Two separate accounting systems
• Two ICT Systems
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
Cost Saving
Flexibility
Shared Expertise
Better Protection
Resilience
Organisational Culture
Workforce modernisation
Convergence of Methodologies
Pace
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
“The totality of the whole is better that the sum of the
two parts”
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
Programme Key Risks
Internal of the Alliance
• Decisions disaggregating the model, e.g. CMPG
• Balancing the Budgets
• Unaligned Strategic Objectives
External of the Alliance
• Strategic Direction of Police and Crime Commissioners
• Funding Changes • Changing shape of
crime
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
Key Strategic Opportunities
• Continuous Improvement through Process Re-engineering
• ICT & enabling new ways of working
• Wider Collaboration (Regional / National etc)
• Potential to Outsource or Partner
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
Looking to the future...
• Comprehensive Spending Review 2013 – further savings to be made.
• Making the alliance work / improvements.
• Leadership?
• Merger?
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
Any Questions?
Top Related