2015-17
LINCOLNSHIRE POLICE
Operational
Policing Plan
Purpose of the Plan
The PCC has set out his objectives and expectations of the force in the Police
and Crime Plan 2015-17. The Operational Policing Plan 2015-17 sets out how
Lincolnshire Police will use its resources to support delivery of those objectives.
The Plan gives us clarity on how we will deliver policing throughout the county.
The Plan is built from four elements:
• The Police and Crime Commissioner’s Police and Crime Plan
• The Chief Constable’s Vision
• The national Strategic Policing Requirement
• The Community Safety Partnership Control Strategy
Links to more details on all of these will be added as and when available.
Our Values and Behaviours
Lincolnshire Police has a set of clear internal values and behaviours which along
with a leadership and staff charter underpins all of our policing services.
The principles under which we police are PRIDE:
Professionalism
Respect
Integrity
Dedication
Empathy
High quality leadership is vital to the success and continuing improvement
of the force. We expect that all our managers will model their practice on our
leadership charter.
The Code of Ethics is a code of practice for the principles and standards of
behaviour that applies to the police service in England and Wales. It applies to
everyone working for or on behalf of the police service and we have adopted the
Code, integrating it with our PRIDE values and behaviours.
policing with PRIDE
The Delivery Plan
How we intend to respond to the policing requirement in Lincolnshire for 2015
to 2017 is set out below.
We Will Protect the Most Vulnerable
We will remain focused on protecting our communities, particularly those
members who are most vulnerable.
We work closely with partners, such as local councils and health services, to
ensure that what we do together is effective. The recent closure of shops selling
‘legal highs’ and campaigns to address problematic alcohol use in young people
are two examples of this.
In 2015-17 we will focus on:
• Working in partnership to keep the most vulnerable people safe, particularly in
relation to sexual violence, domestic abuse, hate crime and substance misuse.
• Understanding, communicating with and supporting those who are most
vulnerable.
• Providing an enhanced service to those most vulnerable members of our
communities.
We Will Inspire Confidence in What We
Do and How We Do It
We will continue to work with communities, listening to their concerns and acting
on information to keep them safe.
We have dedicated police officers and PCSOs across Lincolnshire whose role is
to work within and for the community. In 2014 the PCC also introduced Voluntary
PCSOs and 29 members of our communities are now working alongside our
PCSOs to make communities safer.
In 2015-17 we will focus on:
• Effective engagement with communities to understand their needs.
• Keeping victims informed of progress in line with the Victims Code of Practice.
• Increasing the ways in which we connect with our communities, particularly
making use of online methods such as Twitter.
We Will Prevent, Respond To and Resolve
Crimes According to Risk
In 2014/15 crime has reduced and we will continue our focus on this in
accordance with the PCC’s Police & Crime Plan. We will maintain our focus on
reducing burglary dwelling and crimes involving violence. We will also contribute
to the prevention and response to threats relating to terrorism, civil emergencies,
organised crime, public order, child sexual abuse and cyber crime identified within
the Strategic Policing Requirement by ensuring we have sufficient resources to
respond both within our own force area and at regional and national level.
In Lincolnshire there are over 1000 staff working in our communities to prevent
crime and, where it does occur, to provide the right response and investigation.
In 2015-17 we will focus on:
• Supporting people to prevent themselves becoming a victim of crime.
• Providing a high quality of investigation.
• Utilising the most appropriate resolution, to ensure that crime outcomes are
satisfactory for the victim.
• Making the best use of information and intelligence received.
• Working in partnership to manage persistent offenders.
We Will Respond To and Resolve Calls for
Service According to Risk
We will continue to respond to calls for service and maintain a focus on anti-social
behaviour, making sure we are there when needed. In 2014 we received almost
450,000 calls to our Force Control Room, over 80,000 of which were emergency
(999) calls, and we have over 700 staff ready to respond to these calls.
In early 2015 we changed the way our Force Control Room assessed calls
to ensure a focus on threat and risk. This system makes sure we use the
appropriate response based on the risk to the victim and can offer callers a
number of options. We have introduced an Incident Resolution Team creating
an opportunity for callers to speak directly with a police officer who can resolve
the call for service over the telephone. We can also make an appointment for an
Officer to attend if required and when convenient for the caller.
In 2015-17 we will focus on:
• Identifying more opportunities to improve the way we manage demand.
• Working in partnership to manage our frequent callers.
• Ensuring our resources are flexible to respond to areas of greatest need.
We Will Continue To Make The Best
Possible Use of Our Resources
We will continue to make the best possible use of our resources to provide an
efficient as well as an effective service.
Savings continue to be made through our strategic partnership arrangement with
G4S, through collaborating with other police forces in our region and through
changing the way we work.
In 2015-17 we will focus on:
• Maintaining the numbers of front line officers, PCSOs and support staff.
• Maximising the use of volunteers and continuing to expand the roles available
eg special constable, volunteer PCSO, front desk staff, police cadet leaders
and restorative justice facilitators.
• Equipping our officers with technology that helps them to do their job and
therefore provide a better and more effective police service.
• Introducing new technology and processes to increase the efficiency of
our service.
• Reviewing our assets (buildings, vehicles etc) to ensure we are making the
best use of them.
• Delivering national technology changes such as the new Emergency
Services Network.
How We Will Deliver The Plan
Our current structure consisting of Local Policing (East and West areas) and
specialist crime and operations (some of which is delivered in collaboration with
other regional police forces), together with support departments including our
strategic partner is well placed to deliver the Plan.
For each of the five themes of the Delivery Plan, Chief Officers as well as two
thematic lead officers have been appointed who will be responsible for coordinating the work and will report regularly on progress in each area.
Performance indicators, quantitative and qualitative, have been developed and
will be used to monitor progress across the organisation. Everyone in Lincolnshire
Police shares the responsibility of delivering the plan and will be expected to
have related objectives in their Personal Development Review (PDR).
Progress against the plan will be reported every six weeks at a forcewide
meeting. There will be an end of year assessment of the Delivery Plan against
the objectives in the Police and Crime Commissioner’s Police and Crime Plan,
the Strategic Policing Requirement, the Community Safety Partnership Control
Strategy and the Chief Constable’s Vision.
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Professionalism
Respect
Integrity
Dedication
Empathy