Legislation
National Policing Plan
The first National Policing Plan has been published by the Home Secretary. Key priorities set out in the plan include fighting serious crime and anti-social behaviour to drive up detection rates and tackle the fear of crime.
The plan, introduced as part of the Police Reform Act, highlights anti-social behaviour, street crime, drug-related crime, burglary and car crime as key areas for police forces to tackle locally, to improve public reassurance and engage all sections of the community in the fight against crime. It also reaffirms the key role the police play in encouraging vigilance about terrorist attack.
The plan is a central plank of police reform, pulling together national policing priorities in one place for the first time and setting national objectives to measure how police forces are performing. A key part of the plan will be to develop specialist expertise to investigate complex crimes, build local partnerships and implement the National Intelligence Model across all forces to give police the tools they need to reduce crime and nuisance behaviour.
The Home Secretary has also announced that strategic three-year force plans, introduced as part of the Police Reform Act, would be supported by above inflation increases in funding. There will be a 5.4 per cent increase in funding in 2003 and at least a 4 per cent increase in 2004 and 2005 to help implement police reform.
Click here to link to the National Policing Plan
Last update: 20/08/03