West Mercia Police
Freedom of Information Publication Scheme
Guide to Published Information
Updated June 2014
Information
class
Description of
information
Who we are and what we do
 Force
 Map of force
structure
area showing
each local
policing area
 Profiles of
Chief and
Senior
Officers
Location of information
Fee
Update/
archive
schedule
 www.westmercia.police.uk/saferneighbourhoods/
None
Updated
when
significant
changes
occur
 Organisational
chart showing
Chief Officers
areas of
responsibility
and generic
department titles
 www.westmercia.police.uk/about-us/force-structure.html
None
Updated
when
significant
changes
occur
 Officer and
police staff
establishment
 Chief Officers
and Senior
Police Staff
 www.westmercia.police.uk/about-us/force-structure.html
None
Updated
quarterly
 Chief Constable: www.westmercia.police.uk/about-us/forcestructure/chief-constable.html
None
Updated
when
significant
changes
occur
Deputy Chief Constable: www.westmercia.police.uk/about-us/forcestructure/deputy-chief-constable-anthony-bangham.html
Assistant Chief Constable Local Policing:
www.westmercia.police.uk/about-us/force-structure/assistant-chiefconstable.html
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Assistant Chief Constable Protective Services:
www.westmercia.police.uk/about-us/force-structure/assistant-chiefconstable-lewis-benjamin.html
Director of Enabling Services
www.westmercia.police.uk/about-us/force-structure/director-ofenabling-services.html
Director of Finance:
www.westmercia.police.uk/about-us/force-structure/director-offinance.html
 Territorial
Commanders
 Herefordshire:
www.westmercia.police.uk/herefordshire-superintendentbiography.html
North Worcestershire:
www.westmercia.police.uk/north-worcestershire-superintendentsbiography.html
Shropshire:
www.westmercia.police.uk/shropshire-superintendent-biography.html
South Worcestershire:
www.westmercia.police.uk/south-worcestershire-superintendentbiography.html
Telford & Wrekin
www.westmercia.police.uk/telford-and-wrekin-divisonal-superintendentbiography.html
 Identity of
senior police
staff
 Heads of
department
profiles
 All can be accessed via www.westmercia.police.uk/about-us/forcestructure.html
None
Updated
when
significant
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 Location of
police
stations and
public
opening
hours
 Contact
details
 Listing of
addresses of
police stations
and opening
hours
 www.westmercia.police.uk/contact-us/find-a-police-station.html
 Mobile police
stations
 Dates and venues of mobile police stations are published on individual
Safer Neighbourhood Teams pages as they occur, within the ‘events’
tab. See http://www.westmercia.police.uk/list-of-safer-neighbourhoodteams.html for a list of all Safer Neighbourhood Team pages.
 Surgeries and
shared buildings
 Dates of police surgeries are published on individual Safer
Neighbourhood Teams pages as they occur, within the ‘events’ tab.
Shared buildings used by police for public contact are also published
within this tab. See http://www.westmercia.police.uk/list-of-saferneighbourhood-teams.html for a list of all Safer Neighbourhood Team
pages.
 Emergency and
non-emergency
telephone
numbers
 www.westmercia.police.uk/contact-us/
None
 Text number for
general
enquiries
 West Mercia does not operate a general SMS text facility, however,
text facilities requiring registration are available for people with
disabilities who are unable to contact us by other means. Details are
available at: http://www.westmercia.police.uk/contact-us/phoneus/emergency-sms.html
None
 Email address
for general
enquiries
 www.westmercia.police.uk/contact-us/email-us.html
None
None
changes
occur
Updated
when
significant
changes
occur
All sections
updated
when
significant
changes
occur
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 Postal address
for general
enquiries
 www.westmercia.police.uk/contact-us/write-to-us.html
None
 Contact details
for local policing
teams
 www.westmercia.police.uk/saferneighbourhoods/
None
 How to report a
crime
 www.westmercia.police.uk/reportacrime/
None
 How to make a
complaint
 www.westmercia.police.uk/contact-us/making-a-complaint.html
None
 Firearms
Licensing
 www.westmercia.police.uk/contact-firearms-and-explosiveslicensing.html
None for
general
information
Fees apply
for
licenses
 Freedom of
Information and
Data Protection
Act requests
 www.westmercia.police.uk/freedom-of-information.html
None for
information
available
online.
£10 is
charged
for Data
Protection
Subject
Access
Requests
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 Relationships
with other
authorities
 Arrangements
for special
constables
and civilian
volunteers
 Sponsorship
arrangements
with business
 Links to all major
partner
organsiations
West Mercia
Police works
with or serves as
a constituent
member
 www.westmercia.police.uk/about-us/our-partners.html
None
 Collaborative
arrangements
 www.westmercia.police.uk/news/news-articles/strategic-allianceagreed-by-west-mercia-and-warwickshire.html and
www.westmercia.police.uk/new-operational-policing-model.html
None
 Police & Crime
Commissioner
 www.westmercia-pcc.gov.uk/
None
 Special
Constabulary
 www.westmercia.police.uk/specials/
None
Updated
when
significant
changes
occur
 Civilian
volunteers
 www.westmercia.police.uk/volunteer/
None
 Details of policy
statement on
sponsorship and
value and nature
of current
 www.westmercia.police.uk/freedom-of-information/publishedinformation/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/sponsorship-arrangementswith-businesses.html
None
Updated
when
significant
changes
occur
Updated
when
significant
changes
occur
All updated
when
significant
changes
occur
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sponsorship
arrangements
What we spend and how we spend it
 Annual
 Audited
statement of
accounts for the
accounts and
last three
summary of
financial years
accounts
 Force budget
(as agreed by
Police
Authority)
 2012/13 (PCC) – http://www.westmercia-pcc.gov.uk/DocumentLibrary/Publications/West-Mercia-PCC---Statement-of-Accounts-rf2012-13--.pdf
 2012/13 (West Mercia Police) - http://www.westmerciapcc.gov.uk/Document-Library/Publications/West-Mercia-Police--Statement-of-Accounts-2012-13-.pdf
 2011/12 –
http://www.westmercia.police.uk/assets/_files/documents/feb_14/wmp_
_1391680908_wmpa-statementofaccounts-2012.pdf
 2010/11 http://www.westmercia.police.uk/assets/_files/documents/feb_14/wmp_
_1391680496_wmpa-statementofaccounts2010-1.pdf
 Details of the
current financial
year budget and
future financial
planning
 Contained within the Funding Your Police Service 2014/15 leaflet
www.westmercia.police.uk/about-us/publications-andconsultation/funding-your-police-service-2014/15.html
 Details of
previous two
year's budgets
 2013/14 – Contained within the Funding Your Police Service 2013/14
leaflet
http://www.westmercia.police.uk/about-us/publications-andconsultation/funding-your-police-service-2013-14.html
Further information also contained in the Budget Report, published by
the PCC: www.westmercia-pcc.gov.uk/DocumentLibrary/Publications/West-Mercia-Budget-Report-2014-15.pdf
None
Updated
annually
Updated
annually in
February
following
agreement of
the budget
Further information also contained in the Budget Report, published by
the PCC: www.westmercia-pcc.gov.uk/DocumentLibrary/Publications/WEST-MERCIA-BUDGET-REPORT-13-14FINAL.pdf
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 2012/13 – www.westmercia.police.uk/about-us/publications-andconsultation/funding-your-police-service-2011/4026/12.html
 Expenditure
over £500
 Procurement
procedures
 Details of
contracts
currently
being
tendered
 List of values
and contracts
 Expenses
paid to chief
officers and
senior police
 Details of all
invoices of over
£500 paid by the
Authority
 Our policies and
procedures on
procurement
 www.westmercia.police.uk/foi/expenditure/
None
Monthly
 www.westmercia.police.uk/freedom-of-information/publishedinformation/what-we-spend-and-how-we-spend-it/procurementprocedures.html
None
Updated
when
significant
changes
occur
 Sites where we
advertise for
tenders
 www.bluelight.gov.uk/portal/cms.nsf/vHomePage/fSection?OpenDocu
ment
None
Current
information
provided
 Sites where we
advertise
contracts for
tender or
framework
solutions
 List of contracts
which have been
through a formal
tendering
process
 Details of
expenses paid to
Chief Officers,
Senior Officers
 westmercia.police.g2b.info/cgigen/profile.pl?action=view_profile&oid=500#top
None
Current
informat
ion
provided
 www.westmercia.police.uk/assets/_files/documents/jun_11/wmp__130
7444006_Contract_List_2011_FoI_v2.pdf
None
Annually
 www.westmercia.police.uk/freedom-of-information/publishedinformation/what-we-spend-and-how-we-spend-it/expenses-paid-tochief-officers.html
None
Published
quarterly
(chief
officers) and
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staff
 Evaluation of
Police Use of
Resources
 Support for
the provisions
of Community
Support
Officers
 Financial
Regulations
and police staff
monthly
(senior staff)
Annually or
as published
by Audit
Commission
 Audit
Commission
PURE report
 No report available (not published since 2008)
None
 Auditor's reports
 Available from Police & Crime Commissioner website at:
www.westmercia-pcc.gov.uk/Publications/Publications.aspx
None
Annually
 HMIC Crime and
Policing
Comparator
 Details of annual
budget for CSOs
and the sources
of that funding
 www.hmic.gov.uk/crime-and-policing-comparator/
None
As published
by HMIC
 www.westmercia.police.uk/freedom-of-information/publishedinformation/what-we-spend-and-how-we-spend-it/support-for-theprovision-of-community-support-officers.html
None
Annually
 Copy of the
financial
regulations and
Home Office
guidelines
 www.westmercia.police.uk/assets/_files/documents/oct_11/wmp__132
0062158_fin_regs_recd_29.04.09.pdf
None
Updated
when
significant
changes
occur
None
Annually
 www.westmercia.police.uk/assets/_files/documents/sep_09/wmp__125
1976696_FM_Code_of_Practice.pdf
What our priorities are and how we are doing
 Strategic
 Forces strategic
 www.westmercia.police.uk/about-us/publications-andplans
plans for current
consultation/police-and-crime-plan-2013-17.html
and previous two
 www.westmercia.police.uk/about-us/publications-andfinancial years,
consultation/joint-policing-plan-2012-15.html
includes annual
 www.westmercia.police.uk/about-us/publications-andpolicing plan
consultation/joint-policing-plan-2011-14.html
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 Area Policing
Plans
 Policing plans for
each local area
West Mercia Police no longer produces separate area policing plans.
However, area plans for previous years are included below:
 www.westmercia.police.uk/about-us/publications-andconsultation/joint-policing-plan-2010-13.html
 www.westmercia.police.uk/about-us/publications-andconsultation/joint-policing-plan-2009-12.html
 www.westmercia.police.uk/about-us/publications-andconsultation/joint-policing-plan-2008-11.html
None
Updated
annually
 Chief Officer's
Annual
Report
 Performance
summary and
delivery of
policing plans
 Assessment of
performance
against the
policing plan and
performance
indicators
 www.westmercia-pcc.gov.uk/Document-Library/Publications/ANNUALREPORT-2012-13.pdf
None
Annually
 Quarterly summaries for current year and end of year reports for
previous two years at : www.westmercia.police.uk/freedom-ofinformation/published-information/what-our-priorities-are-and-how-weare-doing.html
None
Quarterly for
current year,
annual
thereafter
 HMIC Reports
 2010 HMIC/Audit Commission Inspection report: www.auditcommission.gov.uk/inspectionassessment/policeinspection/paireports/Pages/201009westmerciapai.a
spx
 www.police.uk
None
As changes
occur
None
Monthly
 Home Office
Police Service
Strength Report
 www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/science-researchstatistics/research-statistics/police-research/hosb0312/
None
Every six
months
 Crime in
England and
Wales Reports
 Details of Local
Policing Teams
 www.ons.gov.uk/ons/taxonomy/index.html?nscl=Crime+in+England+an None
d+Wales
Annually
 www.westmercia.police.uk/saferneighbourhoods/
As changes
occur
 Police
performance
assessments
 Police Force
Statistics
 Neighbourhoo
d Policing
 Crime mapping
None
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Arrangements
Details of individual teams can be found by choosing from a list of
areas or by scrolling through an interactive map.
 Reports from
Independent
Custody
Visitors
 Monitoring of
Stop and
Account and
Stop and
Search
 Reports provided
to West Mercia
Police & Crime
Commissioner
 Statistics for
number of stops
PACE and
ethnicity
monitoring
Our policies and procedures
 Policies and
 A-Z listing of
procedures
our policies and
procedures.
Includes
policies and
procedures for
the conduct of
force business,
provision of
policing
services and
recruitment and
employment of
staff
 Current
vacancies in
the
organisation
 Available from Police & Crime Commissioner website at:
www.westmercia-pcc.gov.uk/Take-Part/Independent-CustodyVisitors/Independent-Custody-Visitors.aspx
None
None
 Contained within our Equality Duty Report:
www.westmercia.police.uk/assets/_files/documents/mar_14/wmp__139
5679942_Equality_Duty_Report_2012_13_V.pdf
Reports are
added as
they are
published.
Published
annually
 www.westmercia.police.uk/freedom-of-information/publishedinformation/our-policies-amp-procedures/west-mercia-police-policiesamp-procedures.html
None
Updated as
changes
occur
 www.westmercia.police.uk/recruitment/latest-police-staffvacancies.html
None
Updated as
changes
occur
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 Customer
service
standards
and
complaint
procedure
 Records
managemen
t and
personal
data policies
 How to make a
complaint
 www.westmercia.police.uk/contact-us/making-a-complaint.html
None
Updated as
changes
occur
 Independent
Police
Complaints
Commission
 www.ipcc.gov.uk
None
Updated as
changes
occur
 Requests for
information
 www.westmercia.police.uk/freedom-of-information/requestinginformation.html
None
Updated as
changes
occur
 Response
times
 www.westmercia.police.uk/assets/_files/documents/sep_09/wmp__12
52056959_Managed_Response_Guidelines_Pr.pdf
None
Updated as
changes
occur
 Cost recovery
policy
 ACPO policy adopted by force:
www.acpo.police.uk/documents/finance/2010/201006FRPTB01.pdf
None
Updated as
changes
occur
 Customer
Service
Standards
 www.westmercia.police.uk/servicestandards/
None
Updated as
changes
occur
 Policies in
accordance
with the Code
of Practice for
the
Management of
Police
Information
 Records Management Policy
 Records Management Procedure
 Records Management Diversity Impact Assessment
None
Updated as
changes
occur
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 Copy of Code
of Practice
 Charging
regime
Lists and registers
 Information
held in
registers by
statute
 Asset
register and
information
asset
register
 Register of
interests
 Register of
gifts and
hospitality
provided to
senior
personnel
 Management of Police Information Code of Practice
 Listing of fees
and charges
 www.westmercia.police.uk/freedom-of-information/charges-andfees.html
None
Updated as
changes
occur
Updated as
fees and
charges
change
 Registers the
police service is
required to
maintain by law
 Details of any
assets and
information
registers held
by the force
 There are no registers that the police service is required to hold by
statute
N/a
N/a
 Asset Register 2012-13:
www.westmercia.police.uk/assets/_files/documents/jan_14/wmp__13
91075600_Asset_Register_2012-13_-_Publi.pdf
 Schedule of Premises: www.westmercia-pcc.gov.uk/DocumentLibrary/Transparency/Schedule-of-Premises-Dec13%28redacted%29.pdf
None
Annually
None
Annually
None
Annually
 A summary of
business
interests
declared by
police officers
and civilian
staff
 Summary of
gifts and
hospitality
provided to
Chief Officers,
senior officers
West Mercia Police is not required to keep an Information asset register
and does not currently do so.
 www.westmercia.police.uk/assets/_files/documents/nov_12/wmp__13
52386473_Register_of_Business_Interests.pdf
 www.westmercia.police.uk/assets/_files/documents/nov_12/wmp__13
52386473_Register_of_Business_Interests.pdf
None
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 FOI
Disclosure
log
and senior
police staff
 Listing of
requests made
under Freedom
of Information
How we make decisions
 Agenda and
 Minutes of the
minutes for
force's strategic
the senior
level meetings
decision
making
committees
 Feedback
from public
consultation
and surveys
 Details of public
surveys,
including Crime
& Safety Survey
 www.westmercia.police.uk/freedom-of-information/disclosure-log.html
None
Monthly
 www.westmercia.police.uk/freedom-of-information/publishedinformation/how-we-make-decisions/executive-and-seniormanagement-meetings.html
None
 www.westmercia.police.uk/getinvolved/haveyoursay/crime-and-safetysurvey.html
None
Minutes are
published
once agreed
as correct at
the next
subsequent
meeting
Updated as
changes
occur
Services provided by the police and force
 Advice and
 As well as links

guidance for
to our own
the general
advice, we have
public
included links to

Government and
other policing
sites

Crime prevention and personal safety advice available at:
www.westmercia.police.uk/advicecentre/
None
Updated as
changes
occur
None
Updated as
changes
occur
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Association of Chief Police Officers website has details of national
policing initiatives:
www.acpo.police.uk
Gov.uk: www.gov.uk
 Ask The Police: www.askthe.police.uk
 Firearms and
explosives
licensing
 Licensing
information,
safety advice,
 www.westmercia.police.uk/firearmslicensing/
 Policing
college or
learning
centre
 Museum
 Local
campaigns
 Media
releases
 Details of the
services for
which the
police is
entitled to
recover a fee
together with
those fees
application
forms, guidance
and fees
 Details of the
training school
and conference
facilities
 Details of the
force museum
 Our crime
prevention
initiatives
 Latest media
releases and
archived
releases
 Contained within
our Fees and
Charges
Guidance
 Policing of
football matches
and events and
the fees charged
 Please contact the Training School on 0300 333 3000 for more
information about the force’s training facilities.
 Conference facilities: www.hindliphall.com
None
N/a
None
 West Mercia Police does not have a force museum
N/a
Updated as
changes
occur
N/a
 www.westmercia.police.uk/news/campaigns-and-initiatives.html
None
 www.westmercia.police.uk/news/
None
 www.westmercia.police.uk/freedom-of-information/charges-andfees.html
None
Updated
annually
None
Updated
annually
None
As specified
 There were no events (football matches, fairs, fetes, processions etc)
in 2013 for which West Mercia Police provided policing resources in
excess of 300 officers.
 ACPO Guidance For Football Deployment and Cost Recovery
 ACPO Guidance on Charging For Police Services
Making The Difference / Strategic Alliance Information
 Information
 Details of what
 www.westmercia.police.uk/freedom-of-information/publishedwe routinely
we will publish
information/making-the-difference/strategic-alliance.html
publish about
and when, 2011-
Updated as
changes
occur
Updated as
changes
occur
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the force
Making the
Difference
and Strategic
Alliance
change
programmes
2015
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