The Customer has a requirement for the removal, storage and logistical handling of items across the force. The current contract is based around the removals aspect only and therefore and has evolved over the term. A new contract must be arranged to cover these new aspects.
Northumbria Police carried out a mini competition from CCS Network Services 2 Framework Agreement (RM3808), to appoint a supplier to deliver our Next Generation Wide Area Network contract, which involves design and build of the network, migration of sites and general management of the network.
Overall objective is to enhance our current mentoring and coaching capability and capacity. Ensuring that our mentors and coaches have the appropriate skills, knowledge and confidence through effective training to enable them to create strong mentoring and coaching relationships to deliver high quality support to their mentees, and strong outputs from their mentoring and coaching sessions. Our aim is to build sustainable supportive approaches to people development across the organisation.
The Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC) is one of eighteen areas that have secured funding from the Home Office to develop a Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) and commission services to deliver interventions that reduce serious violence. The Northumbria VRU uses a Public Health Approach to tackle violent crime by working collaboratively with police, local government, health agencies, education representatives and other community representatives to address the underlying causes of serious violence.
The VRU recognises the need for earlier intervention to strengthen the co-ordinated community response to domestic abuse. Families, friends and community members are usually the first to know, and often the best placed to offer support, if someone they know is being controlled, scared or hurt by a partner or family member.
The VRU is therefore seeking to match fund the Findaway Project to enable it to work across Northumbria to fill a current gap in the community response to domestic abuse. The service is not aimed at victims or perpetrators as there are already services in place providing that support - instead it is aimed at those informal networks who are close to the victim or the person who is causing the harm. Findaway seeks to equip families, friends and communities with the knowledge and skills they need to effectively support the people they care about.
Our objective is to offer two new talent development programmes for officers and staff. The first programme is aimed at high potential, high performing officers (at inspector rank) and staff (at grade H-J) who have the potential to reach senior leadership positions. A second programme is designed for high potential superintendents, chief superintendents, and banded grade staff equivalent who have the potential to reach executive team positions. Both programmes will prepare individuals who are exceeding in both performance and behaviours, and demonstrating the talent to operate at more senior levels through a structured development programme which assists in creating talent pipelines. This investment drives forward our strategic priorities in being an outstanding organisation, and our people priorities to fill skills gaps and build leadership capability. As a result, our workforce will in turn fulfil their potential through effective, supportive leadership.