Too many police chiefs? - A review of police strength and costs in England & Wales 2010

SUMMARY OBSERVATIONS - Non Staffing Costs

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A thorough, independent and expert review of the current non staff costings area for every force. Centralised sourcing for many of the spending areas of supplies and services would deliver millions in cost saving benefits.

NON STAFFING COSTS The reports on following pages illustrate the breakdown of the non staffing costs of £2.7 Billion, but here are the headlines :-

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Supplies & Services Premises Transport Third Party

• Other employee expenses

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Capital Financing • Other non staff costs

• Office Equip & Exp

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Computing Forensics

Custody

Uniform & laundry Catering contractors

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Investigation Exp

Telecommunications Radio

• Other

1.26 Billion 618 Million 219 Million 150 Million 151 Million 152 Million 59 Million

By far the biggest area of non staff spending is the 1.26 Billion on Supplies & Services, that include:-

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198 Million 141 Million 146 Million 96 Million 109 Million 69.5 Million 64 Million 51 Million 37 Million 351 Million

The non staffing costs of the police service account for 20% of the total expenditure. As such it is worthy of a closer look. On the pages that follow, we look in greater detail, by each force, exploring the amounts spent on each non staffing area.

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