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Policing, Partnerships and Accountability
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This Seminar will be held at The Royal Commonwealth Society in London
On Friday 09th May 2008
Seminar reference PR/200 |
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How Best Should Flanagan be Taken Forward?
How can Flanagan's view of a radical new approach to policing to meet new challenges be achieved?
How best can policing sustain greatest public trust and confidence?
How can policing become genuinely citizen-focused with full community engagement?
How can local partnerships be improved for more successful policing at all levels?
Can local policing be placed within integrated neighbourhood services with a common manager?
What impact can effective neighbourhood policing have on community cohesion and disadvantage?
How can risk aversion be changed to meet resources and better understanding of risks to the public?
How should central structures supporting policing be redesigned to achieve innovative solutions?
How can policing performance and productivity be transparent, consistent and directly comparable?
Where can we expect to be in ten years time?
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CONTEXT
Sir Ronnie Flanagan says in his independent review that "policing is much too important and too impactive on all our lives to be left to the police alone. I look forward to the informed public debate that we need to have about the sort of policing we want for the future."
Flanagan details how the nature of policing has changed in recent years to range from helping manage offenders in the community and child protection to dealing with terrorist crime and serious, organised criminality.
He offers a vision of 21st century citizen-focused policing, with full community engagement, deploying resources to fight threats the public faces, being dynamic and flexible, responding to changing needs.
Development of neighbourhood policing has been crucial to the police service's response to modern challenges. It highlights the value and necessity of the police working in partnership with local agencies and means for achieving greater community cohesion.
Flanagan's vision for neighbourhood policing is as part of wider joint working, with all partners resolving problems faced by communities. Neighbourhood management should be integrated with joint tasking, co-location, single management and seamless, joined-up delivery to meet local priorities through intelligence-led, problem solving approaches.
A cultural change is needed to ensure maximum responsiveness and answerability to local communities.
The nature of local accountability is complex. Greater democratic legitimacy was not called for in the Review's consultations. Flanagan questions the visibility, effectiveness and future of current police authorities. He examines other democratic options, including strength-ened local government, all of which provide both opportunities and problems.
Nationally, Flanagan argues for redesign of central structures that support policing, with a more strategic vision from the Home Office and more effective support from inspectorates, NPIA and others. He looks for a performance system that focuses far more on key outcomes like trust and confidence to create space for more entrepreneurial and innovative solutions.
Flanagan's thinking will influence the current Police Green Paper and subsequent legislation. It should equally influence ways in which public bodies need to sustain effective partnerships locally, through LSPs, LAAs, MAAs and other means, and the nature of cross-service accountability. What also are the roles of the private and third sectors?
This seminar brings together key national and local figures from across sectors in this crucial debate. The day encourages brief, focussed presentations followed by engaged discussion in a relaxed setting by all those attending. It is hoped that it will make a valuable contribution to taking ideas forward. |
The fee for the day's Seminar is £345.00 plus VAT.
THERE IS AN "EARLYBIRD" DISCOUNT OF 20% FOR BOOKINGS BEFORE 16 April 2008
GENEROUS NEGOTIATED DISCOUNTS ARE AVAILABLE FOR VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS AND FOR MULTIPLE BOOKINGS.
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