Our Targets » Serious Crime and Protection
Serious Crime
2009/10
- Develop Basic Command Unit (BCU) based POCA operational capability and capacity
- Recover £1.75 million of criminals' assets
- Through collaboration develop high level witness protection procedures at Force and regional level
- Implement new procedures for the national ballistic intelligence system
- Achieve 3% reduction in most serious violent crime
- Attain a 5% reduction in last years benchmark for serious knife crime levels
- Achieve 55% detection rate for offences brought to justice for serious violent crime ( joint target with LCJB)
- To ensure no increase on 08/09 gun crime rate.
- Senior SIOs to achieve professional accreditation (NPIA) supported by PDR system.
- Continue to explore appropriate workforce modernisation within the investigation of major crime arena under a defined management structure
- To keep under review our capability and capacity to deal with radical extremism and terrorism
2010/11
- All detectives to achieve professional accreditation (NPIA) supported by Personal Development Review system. .
- Establish a framework and processes that ensure the dissemination of best practice from major crime investigations throughout the force
Protecting Vulnerable People
2009/10
- Continue to achieve 30% detection rate for offences brought to justice for serious sexual offences (joint target with LCJB)
- Further develop working practices and partnerships of the PVP teams
- Increase capacity of the Child Abuse Investigation Unit to reduce individual caseloads to national standards
- With the knowledge obtained from the benchmarking year 2008/09 to identify ways of improving accessibility for victims of serious sexual offences aged 16 and above to receive support from a specialist support service
2010/11
- To have developed multi-agency strategies to manage child exploitation
- To have implemented locally co-ordinated community response to domestic abuse to reduce harm for high risk victims of domestic abuse and their children
- Establish a Force infrastructure to enhance and improve rape investigations for both adults and young people