The Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales intends to directly award a contract for the service and maintenance of the integrated Cell Management Systems (CCTV, Cell Call, Affray Alarm, and Intercom System) at the South Wales Police custody suites (Bridgend Bridewell, a further Bridgend-area site, Merthyr Tydfil Bridewell, Cardiff Bay Bridewell, Cardiff Central and Swansea Bridewell). These maintenance services are required until each bridewell's system is replaced during the contract period.
Police and Crime Commissioner for South WalesWalesWAC-546515
South Wales Police (the Commissioner) is the lead contracting party for Substance Use Recovery Interventions for Justice Services (previously Offender Intervention) for Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, Cwm Taf Morgannwg and the public sector prisons of His Majesty's Prisons Cardiff, Usk and Prescoed . The Services are also commissioned on behalf of His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service Wales.
The Contractor shall deliver the Service, ensuring drug and/or alcohol related offending is addressed by assessing, engaging and diverting Service Users out of crime and into appropriate interventions , reducing the risk of harm to Service Users and their families, peers and their wider communities.
The Contractor shall support the reduction of drug and/or alcohol related offending in accordance with the:
•Commissioner's Police, Crime and Justice Plan
• HMPPS priorities
• Wales Reducing Re-offending Strategy
• His Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) report findings
• His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) report findings
• Integrated Offender Management Cymru Strategic Framework and Delivery Manual
The Contractor shall ensure the Service identifies and considers the barriers that individuals or groups may face in engaging with such Services and mitigate these to enable equity of Service.
Whilst the Commissioner is the sole contractual party, the Contractor is required to develop and sustain close working relationships with a number of other organisations in
order to provide an effective Service throughout the Contract Period. Such organisations shall include (but not be limited to):
• Area Planning Boards ("APB's") for substance misuse in CAV and CTM
• HMPPS
• His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service
• South Wales Police (SWP)
• Local Health Boards
• Local Authorities
• Housing Contractors
• Other substance use services in Wales
• Others named or referred to throughout this Specification
The Contractor shall provide the Service in accordance with the:
• Welsh Government Substance Misuse Treatment Frameworks (SMTF)
• The objectives of South Wales Criminal Justice Board
• HMPPS in Wales Reducing Reoffending Plan
The Contractor shall provide assessment, diversion and engagement Services to adults, whose offending behaviour or criminogenic need is linked to substance use. The Contractor shall deliver the Services within custody suites, courts, community and the prison estate to Service Users who reside , or would normally be expected to reside*, within the following unitary local authority areas, namely:
i. Bridgend
ii. Cardiff
iii. Vale of Glamorgan
iv. Rhondda Cynon Taf
v. Merthyr Tydfil
(*NB - currently in the prison estate within the UK and returning to one of the above local authority areas upon release, or those currently having no fixed /settled address but rough sleeping/staying within the area.)
The Contractor shall ensure that the Service is provided at all locations:
• With appropriate space available to offer group or private 1:1 support;
• With appropriate space in which to deliver the Service in an environment which meets the diverse needs and requirements of each Service User.
Bidders should note, optional requirements for additional location(s)/premise(s) have been included in the specification. The additional premise(s)/location(s) will be within the South
Wales Police force area - this is not required at the moment but may be required during the Contract Period.
Police and Crime Commissioner for South WalesWalesWAC-547522
The Contractor shall provide the following NDORS courses:
Safe and Considerate Driving Course
National Speed Awareness Course
National Motorway Awareness Course
National RIDE Course
What's Driving Us Course
National Driving 4 Change Course
The National Speed Awareness 20 Course
The National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme (NDORS) has been developed by the police service in collaboration with the National Association of Driver Intervention Providers (NADIP). The police service has formed the Road Safety Trust (RST), a charity, to provide the business support to the Scheme through the not for profit operating company UK Road Offender Education (UKROEd).
Any full or provisional driving licence holder considered at fault by the the police force following an incident, may be offered a place on the appropriate NDORS course as an alternative to prosecution.
These courses are available to book online or in person at locations throughout the force areas of South Wales Police Gwent Police and North Wales Police.
Police and Crime Commissioner for South WalesWalesWAC-564064
Idera provides a comprehensive portfolio of database management software specifically designed to monitor, optimize, secure, and administer certain server environments.
Police and Crime Commissioner for South WalesWalesWAC-571309
The Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales Police (the 'Commissioner') requires a consultant to undertake a full valuation programme and associated services related to its estate. The Commissioner's premises range from smaller premises through to a large Force Headquarters in Bridgend. This Contract shall commence on contract award, anticipated September 2025, and shall expire on 30/09/2026.
Police and Crime Commissioner for South WalesWalesWAC-528985
To undertake testing to measure the equitability of Live Facial Recognition in an operational context.
The objectives of the work are to document a test methodology to evaluate facial recognition accuracy and equitability
Police and Crime Commissioner for South WalesWalesWAC-431667