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co-ordination processes, maximising individual local solutions. A crucial benefit of not only combatting neighbourhood crime is the fact the community intelligence-led product is compatible with strict requirements for national and international dissemination through the Police National Database. The principle of routine, tasked and
volunteered intelligence, based upon intelligence requirements implemented through collection plans is fundamental to a community intelligence-led policing methodology. They are essential for contact management, allowing intelligence process decisions to be made on local priorities and tactical options. The contribution community
was launched by the NPCC in March [2024] as part of its Digital Public Contact Programme’. Ms Sarah Taylor, a Buckland Councillor
elected as the Norfolk police and crime commissioner on 2 May 2024, is quoted in an interview with the BBC as saying; “I’m from an armed forces family, I have a natural respect for the police as do an awful lot of people in Norfolk”, Ms Taylor told BBC Radio Norfolk, “I, like them, share the desire to make policing more within our society again and generate that trust again.”
The recurring conjecture of disparity between rural/urban and neighbourhood/ community is mirrored in policing’s strength. Semantics aside, a significant factor in the debate will be fluctuating staffing numbers affecting forces’ ability to manage its commitment to community policing. Expanding the discussion to include
an illustration of England and Wales’s police officer numbers the latest Home Office’s figures for March 2023 is 147,430 (full time equivalents). However, the Evening Standard reported on 24 January 2024, ‘police officer numbers in England and Wales has fallen, months after the Government hailed a campaign to hire thousands of recruits’… ‘There has been a similar drop in the number of full- time equivalent (FTE) officers in England and Wales, which stood at 147,098 at the end of September 2023, down from a record 147,430 in March, although higher than 142,146 the year before’. In order to further illustrate the
debate, consider a Police Federation 34 | POLICE | AUGUST | 2024
post on LinkedIn 15 May 2024: ‘As of 30 September 2022, there were 7840 special constables in forces across England and Wales. A year later there were 6330 - a significant drop of 19 per cent and shows a continual fall year on year from a high of more than 20,000 in 2012’. A further concern may arise out of a modern reality where local reporting rules will consequently be prioritised to address parochial requirements which in turn may further diminish neighbourhood policing, implying not only is it under pressure from lack of funding and resources but the much-maligned service is also under threat from bureaucracy.
“The contribution community
However, reassuringly the CoP publishes a Code of Practice (Authorised Professional Practice) issued by the secretary of state which requires chief officers to have due regard to the Code. It clarifies the responsibilities of chief officers and police and crime commissioners in relation to the application of the national intelligence model (NIM). Here again I return to the guarantee
community intelligence policing provides; it is structured on the National Decision Making model (NDM) and in addressing problem solving matters, it is formatted on SARA (scanning, analysis, response, assessment). Likewise, it can be aligned with each force’s tasking and
intelligence makes to general public safety cannot be overestimated.”
intelligence makes to general public safety cannot be overestimated; to reiterate the idea that every criminal lives somewhere, everybody eats, drinks, shops; at one point in their life, they had a relative, they have neighbours, cars, some have pets, gang association, colleagues, acquaintances, contacts, paramours, even right down to the good old school friend is of paramount importance. It is valid to further consider locality; neighbourhood, borough, village, town, city; be they cultural, religious, ethnic, or race divergent. This can be further qualified by, gender, age, socio-economic, or sub- categories in the case of beat, suburb, district, hamlet, zone, ward, county region. An essential consideration for government, law enforcement, industry and primarily the general public is the effectiveness of a multitude of technical innovations as all are dependent on information. Analytical products, research methodology and AI are the
lifeblood of strategic and tactical policing; community intelligence-led policing methodology is structured to support law enforcement interventions through locally determined intelligence requirements. Understanding the use of community intelligence-led data will have a significant impact on not only specific policing targets as well as informing the greater picture through national dissemination. Citizenships’ reward is trust; it is the knowledge of confidence in duty, a fundamental right policing satisfies. A community intelligence-led policing methodology provides a universal approach, a holistic solution to identify, classify, target, address and confront the issues that beset society.
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