Police Summer Conference: Theresa May speech

Police Summer Conference: Theresa May speech; Theresa May speech (continued) SOT - But I want to go even further / That’s why in May I announced a series of new measures that in total could save well over 2.5 million hours of police time each year / That’s time your officers can better spend on the frontline / Those measures include streamlined PDR and crime recording processes, better risk management, improved handling of domestic violence cases, ACPO’s work to reduce the volume of national guidance, and the handing back to your officers of further charging discretion / It is the implementation of those reforms that will be key / With Chris Sims’ Reducing Bureaucracy Programme Board, we have already made progress / So on police PDRs for example, the new guidance has now been launched - saving an estimated 1.5 million police hours per year / But we won’t stop there / The Programme Board is looking at further measures which could save hundreds of thousands more hours by placing the focus back on managing people rather than simply managing a process / On crime recording, we have already made significant changes to the Annual Data Requirement and staff in forces who are filling in data returns for the Home Office have told us our changes are having an impact / The new data hub means that a substantial number of old fashioned data collection forms are now being replaced by automatic data collection from your forces / Further work to tackle crime recording bureaucracy at force level is also now underway and will be complete by the end of July / This will be used to share best practice on crime recording across the service / On risk management, Chief Constable Brian Moore is leading work to develop a simple decision-making tool to better manage risk / ACPO has also now published ten risk principles / In June, Brian also attended an inter-ministerial group, which I chaired, to present the Reducing Bureaucracy Programme Board’s proposals on reducing unnecess...