Decision Record 2020

Joint Force Headquarters - AV Equipment CN1002443 (CE 26)

To inform and recommend approval for the variation of contract for AV equipment within the Joint Force Headquarters building to Henry Brothers Construction Limited, for the supply of AV Equipment to be fitted as part of new the Joint Force HQ building for the period of contract for the total compensation event value of £389,579.40 ex VAT.

OEMS (Digital Evidence Management) Award of Contract CN1002596

To inform and recommend the approval for the award of contract to NICE Systems via sec Limited for an initial 3-year contract term commencing 4 January 2021 to 3 January 2024. However, the total contract value is £1,337,665.00 - this value includes a possible two-year contract term. 

Additional PCC Funded Work 2020/21

The PCC is asked to confirm his verbal agreement to award funding for the following:

1. Real Talk TV - Up to £2,500 via the Chayah Project
2. The commissioning of four virtual focus groups across the force area to gather residents' views on the policing budget and resources, the precept for policing and attitudes towards police officer safety - Up to £5,900 to SMSR Research

This is a total of up to £8,400 which shall be met from within the 2020/21 Commissioning budget.

Additional MoJ Covid 19 Emergency Funding

Further to Decision Notice 2020.046, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has granted Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Commissioner a further £369,960.28 Covid 19 Emergency Funding. This funding is for charities and social enterprises that support victims of domestic or sexual abuse to cope with the impacts of crime, and, as far as possible, recover from the harm they have experienced. The funding is provided to meet additional costs occurred as a result of adapting services due to COVID-19 or to meet additional demand as a result of COVID-19.

IT Dell Hardware Refresh - Nottinghamshire Police

To recommend approval for the award of a contract to ComputaCentre for the supply of a hardware refresh of the Force workstations with a total contract value of £212,670 ex VAT.

Scene of Crime Consumables

Nottinghamshire Police is procuring Scene of Crime Consumables through the compliant West Mercia Framework - National Framework Agreement for the supply of Scenes of Crime Consumables OJEU TED REF 2020/S 114-277963.

Lease of part of Lower Car Park at Burntstump Country Park, Arnold, Nottingham

As part of the plans to develop a joint HQ for Police and Fire at Sherwood Lodge, consideration has been given to how best to deal with car parking for visitors. The existing visitors' car park at Sherwood Lodge is very small and an opportunity has arisen to take a lease of part of the Gedling Borough Council owned car park directly adjacent to the entrance to Sherwood Lodge. The lease would comprise 56 of the 68 spaces within the car park. The existing visitors' car park would be used for disabled parking only and the new car park would be used mainly by visitors for both Police and Fire. As part of the lease arrangements, the public would continue to be allowed to park in the car park after 6pm Monday - Friday and all day at weekends.

Review of Neighbourhood Offices

Following a review of Neighbourhood Offices, it was agreed that consultation would take place on the potential closure of five Neighbourhood Offices at the following locations:-

a.     Bingham Town Council Offices
b.     Carlton in Lindrick Civic Centre
c.     Trowell Services - Former Motorway Post
d.     Tuxford - Mine of Information
e.     Warsop Town Hall

Target Hardening

Nottinghamshire Police is procuring Target Hardening through the compliant Fusion21 Framework - National Framework Agreement for the supply of Improvement Works OJEU TED REF 2019/S 231-565572

Independent Sexual Violence Adviser (ISVA) additional funding 2020-2

In 2018 the PCC awarded a contract to Notts SVS Services to deliver an adult ISVA service until June 2020. The contract was later extended until 30 June 2021, as outlined in Notice of Decision 2020.035.

In June 2020 the PCC was invited by Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to apply for more ISVA funding, on top of the additional ISVA funding MoJ had already awarded earlier in 2020. The application was successful and will pay for an additional ISVA post until March 2022.

Notts SVS Services will provide the additional ISVA post, in order to ensure that the ISVA service is cohesive. 

Extension of adult and paediatric SARC contract 2021-3

The PCC has been working with NHS England to co-commission sexual assault referral centres
(SARCs) services in Nottinghamshire, with NHSE acting as the lead commissioner.
As outlined in Notice of Decision 2018.058, the PCC previously agreed to fund NHSE's contract to Mountain Healthcare Limited to deliver an adult SARC service in Nottinghamshire, and to fund NHSE's contract with Nottinghamshire University Hospitals NHS Trust to deliver a paediatric SARC service for the East Midlands including Nottinghamshire.

Extension of non domestic stalking pilot 1 January - 30 September 2021

As outlined in Notice of Decision 2019.032, the PCC agreed to fund a pilot project to support victims of non domestic stalking. The pilot funded specialist stalking support delivered by Equation, Juno and Nottinghamshire Women's Aid and the development of training seminars to raise awareness of the service. It was due to run from July 2019 to December 2020.

Covid restrictions have had a severe negative impact on the number of referrals into the stalking service, which meant that it has not been possible to make a fair or well informed decision about the future of the service. Extending the pilot into 2021 will allow time for the service to develop under Covid restrictions and will ensure that the PCC can make a more informed decision about the service's future.

Re co-commissioning of city domestic abuse professionals, prevention and communities service 2021-30

The PCC works closely with his local authority partners to co-commission activity to tackle domestic abuse.  As part of this, he has co-commissioned a domestic abuse professionals and prevention service in the city with Nottingham City Council since 2016.  The contract for this service will expire on 31 March 2021.

The PCC wishes to continue to support the service, which now needs to be recommissioned for delivery from April 2021.  This will be done in partnership with Nottingham City Council, with the City Council acting as the lead commissioner.  This will be governed by a new partnership agreement with the City Council.

Award of contract to provide a new sexual violence support hub and specialist therapy 2020-5

As outlined in Notice of Decision reference 2020.039, the PCC has agreed to act as the lead commissioner for a new sexual violence hub and therapy support contract. The service will be funded by Nottingham City Council, Nottinghamshire County Council, Bassetlaw CCG and Nottingham and Nottinghamshire CCGs as well as the PCC.
East Midlands Strategic Commercial Unit (EMSCU, now Mint) conducted an OJEU compliant procurement process. Following an evaluation of bids Notts SVS Services is the preferred bidder.

Nottinghamshire Force - Multi-Functional Device Replacement

There is a requirement to replace the aging fleet of Multi-Functional Devices across the entire Force estate. A full and comprehensive county wide audit was completed with the incumbent provider to include the utilisation of the devices and their functionality along with the printing habits of the organisation.

Vehicle Purchase

Nottinghamshire Police is procuring Liquid Fuel through the compliant ESPO framework Liquid Fuels (301) OJEU REF: 2016/S 091-163350. ESPO has conducted Further Competition on behalf of Authorities utilising the Framework, enabling Direct Award to the Supplier who has been awarded supply for Nottinghamshire through raising a Purchase Order with the Supplier Certas Energy UK Ltd.

Understanding Serious Violence in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire: A qualitative, exploratory stud

This is a requirement for research on behalf of the NNVRU, Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire Violence Reduction Unit (NNVRU) is a partnership bringing together specialists from Local Government, Health, Education, Policing and Criminal Justice to work with communities and the third sector to reduce serious violence and tackle its underlying causes.

Home Office Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) Funding 2020/21 - Re-profile

This decision form seeks a re-profile of the VRU budget for quarters' 3 and 4 of 2020/21 to ensure spend can be maximised to support the core purpose of the VRU in reducing serious violence.

A request will be made to the Home Office in line with the Grant Agreement signed in June 2020.

Home Office Covid-19 Small Grants

This decision form seeks approval for recipients of the Covid 19 Small Grants funding provided by the Home Office. The Grant is intended to fund Projects that will positively impact on children and young people in both England and Wales. VRUs have been asked to distribute funding to smaller frontline charity partners to strengthen existing HO delivery infrastructure and new charities that provide vital services.
Money has been allocated to VRUs based on their share of hospital admissions for knife injury, which is a proxy for local level of serious violence and is the existing allocation method for HO funding.

Mint Commercial Services LLP

This report has been prepared further to the Decision Notice 19.2020 to obtain approval for Mint Commercial Services Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) to commence trading on 1 October 2020.

Safer Streets Programme - Procurement Decisions

In July 2020, following a bid to the Home Office the PCC was awarded £550,000 Safer Streets funding to implement the bid submission proposals to reduce acquisitive crime in two Local Super Output Areas (LSOAs) in Newark Nottinghamshire.

A decision is required around a number of the procurement decisions associated with this funding.

Safer Streets Program Management and Delegated Authority for CEO and Head of Strategy and Assurance

In July 2020, following a bid to the Home Office the PCC was awarded £550,000 Safer Streets funding to implement the bid submission proposals to reduce acquisitive crime in two Local Super Output Areas (LSOAs) in Newark Nottinghamshire.

The PCC has decided that his Head of Strategy and Assurance will undertake the Program Management on a part time basis and as such will be responsible for approving budget spend in accordance with the agreed Home Office budget plan and conditions of grant. This requires approval by the PCC.

A decision is required for the PCC to grant the Chief Executive Officer and his Head of Strategy delegated authority to approve spends in accordance with the Home Office budget plan and conditions of grant.

Women-Specific Conditional Caution Project - Grant Extension

The PCC is requested to confirm his verbal commitment to a 12 month extension to the Women Specific Cautions Project delivered by Changing Lives to run from 1 October 2020 to 30 September 2021.

Refurbishment of Mansfield Road Police Station

At Mansfield Police Station there is currently a space known as Northern Control Room that the Force have decided should become a dual purpose space and used as a Control Room and three IT training rooms. The work will involve a remodelling of the main room to divide it up into three rooms that can then be opened up into a Control Room when required.

Covid-19 Awareness Accreditation Scheme

Funding from the Night Time Levy monies in 2020-21 for a Covid-19 Awareness Accreditation Scheme for licensed premises. Provision of this scheme supports the core aims for Nottingham of a safer, healthier and more prosperous evening and night time economy.

Nimble Storage Refresh

Nottinghamshire Police IS Department have identified the need to replace/refresh three HP Nimble Storage Arrays. These three arrays have been identified as reaching the end of their vendor support life which will represent a risk. 

Additional Funded Work 2020/21

The PCC is asked to confirm his verbal agreement to award funding to support the following initiatives:

1. Rhodesia Target Hardening Project - Up to £3,000
2. Ongoing consultancy support from Star Fish Consulting to continue to enable the national adoption of the Nottinghamshire misogyny model - Up to £7,250

This is a total of up to £10,250 which shall be met from within the 2020/21 Commissioning budget.

Q1 Virements requiring OPCC Sign Off

To comply with Financial Regulations virements between reports over the value of £100k require approval from the OPCC.  The attached document lists revenue virements which fall into this category.  A further approval is required for a virement which does not meet this threshold but shows a transfer of budget from the OPCC to Polic.

Property Act Fund

Two project teams have been set up and created to assess, review and remove property held by Nottinghamshire Police that is no longer required.
The projects so far have solely been funded by Nottinghamshire Police, and work is still ongoing to complete.

Street Pastor Scheme

Funding from the Night Time Levy monies in 2020-21 for the Street Pastor Scheme. This work supports the core aims for Nottingham of a safer, healthier and more prosperous evening and night time economy.

Decontamination Services

There have been previous contractual arrangements in place for decontamination services with both Northants Police and Nottinghamshire Police. There were no extension options available on the existing agreement and therefore a new tender was required.

A compliant open OJEU tender has been run in collaboration with Northamptonshire Police to select a new Supplier for the provision of decontamination services.

MoJ Covid 19 Emergency Funding

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has granted Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Commissioner £584,468.78 Covid 19 Emergency Funding for charities and social enterprises to meet additional costs occurred as a result of adapting services due to COVID-19 or to meet additional demand as a result of COVID-19.

Sale of Worksop Police Station, Potter Street, Worksop

Following the decision to move from the former Worksop Police Station to the Council Offices at Queens Buildings, Potter Street, Worksop, the site was placed on the open market. The building was previously under offer but the sale was not progressing and the prospective purchaser officially pulled out stating the uncertainty arising from the coronavirus pandemic as the main reason.

The building has been put back on the market and an acceptable offer has now been made for the site. The prospective purchaser will also allow the Police to use 12 car parking spaces on the site free of charge for a period of 12 months from completion of sale.

New Adult Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC)

The Office of Police Crime Commissioner (OPCC}, National Health Service England (NHSE) and Nottinghamshire Police have worked together to review the current provision of Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) services in Nottinghamshire and to identify the changes required to provide a better standard of victim care and an improved standard of forensic evidence as required in forthcoming accreditation standards.

Joint Police and Partnership Problem Solving Training - Travel and Subsistence costs

In October 2019, a decision was approved to provide £19,925 funding toward Partnership Problem Solving Training but due to the outbreak of Covid-19 and Government social distancing regulations, a number of planned training sessions had to be cancelled in March 2020.

A new decision is sought to approve £3,350 to fund the remaining Problem Solving training for Police Officers, Police Staff and Partners in support of a recommendation arising out of the Neighbourhood Policing review to reinvigorate effective partnership working and support activity to reduce high severity crime in high harm localities was approved on 24th October 2019 (see decision 2019.056).

Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) budget forecast 2020/2021

This decision form seeks approval of the following recommendations:

1. Spend in line with the VRU budget forecast from April 1st 2020 - March 31 st 2021 is approved
2. Continued delegated authority for the VRU Director to approve spend in line with the budget
3. Approval of the mechanism to remunerate VRU Community Ambassadors

Sale of Holmes House, Ratcliffe Gate, Mansfield

The above office building is situated on the Mansfield Police Station site and is surplus to requirements. It has been vacant since June, 2018.  The building has been on the market since February, 2018. The building was previously under offer but the sale was not progressing and the prospective purchaser officially pulled out stating the uncertainty arising from the coronavirus pandemic as the main reason.

The building has been put back on the market and an acceptable offer has now been made for the site.

Additional Commissioned Projects 2020/21

The PCC is asked to confirm his verbal agreement to award funding to support the following initiatives:

1.     Operation Reacher Engagement Fund - Up to £18,000
2.     National Ugly Mugs Scheme - Up to £4,000

This is a total of up to £22,000 which shall be met from within the 2020/21 Commissioning budget.

Procurement of a new sexual violence support hub and specialist therapy 2020-5

Follow the PCC's sexual violence needs assessment, published in November 2019, he has developed a new model for sexual violence support which includes a dedicated sexual violence hub and provision of therapeutic support.   Nottingham City Council, Nottinghamshire County Council, Bassetlaw CCG and Nottingham and Nottinghamshire CCGs have agreed to fund the hub and therapy elements of the new model on a pooled budget basis. Commissioners from each organisation are working with the OPCC to develop the specification and the PCC will act as the lead commissioner for the service.

Financial Regulations

The existing Financial Regulations have now been reviewed and updated and are attached for approval

Provision of personal health budgets for adult CSA survivors

The PCC wishes to award a grant to Mansfield and Ashfield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to provide personal health budgets to adult survivors of CSA which took place whilst in the care of authorities.
The need for personal health budgets was established in discussions at the CSA/SV Task and Finish Group, which aims to oversee the improvement of support services for survivors and is attended by CSA Survivors as well as the OPCC, local authorities and clinical commissioning groups.
Mansfield and Ashfield CCG will work on behalf of all the clinical commissioning groups in Nottinghamshire to recruit and employ a Personalised Care Officer to work with survivors and put in place support plans to enable them to access a personal health budgets.

Extension of sexual violence therapy provision in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire April - December 2020

The PCC has a responsibility to commission services for victims of crime, and to prioritise the victims of the most serious crime.  Victims and survivors of sexual violence require a range of help to cope and recover from crime, including crisis support for recent sexual assault, ISVA, and counselling.

Independent Sexual Violence Adviser (ISVA) Service Uplift and Contract Extension

As outlined in Notice of Decision 2018.050, the PCC agreed to award a contract to deliver an ISVA service until 30 June 2020 to Notts SVS Services. The ISVA contract includes the Survivor Support Service which helps adult survivors of CSA which took place whilst in the care of authorities. In May 2019 the PCC agreed a financial uplift to the service of £26,667 to increase the capacity of the Survivor Support Service during 2019-0 (Notice of Decision 2019.022).
In 2019 the PCC successfully applied to Ministry of Justice (MoJ) for additional ISVA funding. The funding was confirmed in March 2020, with MoJ stipulating that the funding should pay for 1 full time additional ISVA post for the 2020/1 and 20212 financial years.
Notts SVS Services' original ISVA contract will expire on 30 June 2020. The original Invitation to Tender made allowance for two possible one year extensions.

Night time levy (No Place for Hate Initiative)

To seek approval for spending of £3,000 from the Late Night Levy monies to enable continuation of the No Place for Hate City Centre Charter.  In particular, to support the hate crime training to Night Time Economy (NTE) venues and City centre businesses, an essential element of the Charter.

Children's Independent Sexual Violence Adviser (CHISVA) Service Uplift and contract extension

As outlined in Notice of Decision 2018.050, the PCC agreed to award a contract to deliver a CHISVA service until 30 June 2020 to lmara. In October 2019 the PCC agreed a financial uplift to the service of £9,250 to run from September 2019 to June 2020 (Notice of Decision 2019.059).
In 2019 the PCC successfully applied to Ministry of Justice (MoJ) for additional CHISVA funding. The funding was confirmed in March 2020, with MoJ stipulating that the funding should pay for 1.5 extra CHISVA staff for the 2020/1 and 2021/2 financial years.
lmara's CHISVA contract will expire on 30 June 2020. The original Invitation to Tender made allowance for two possible one year extensions.

New Adult Sexual Assault Referral Centre (ASARC)

The Office of the Police Crime Commissioner (OPCC), National Health Service England (NHSE) and Nottinghamshire Police have worked together to review the current provision of Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) services in Nottinghamshire and to identify the changes required to provide a better standard of victim care and an improved standard of forensic evidence as required in forthcoming accreditation standards.

Nottinghamshire Youth Commission 2020/21

The PCC intends to issue a further grant to Leaders Unlocked to deliver targeted engagement with young people and under-represented groups across Nottinghamshire during 2020/21. 20-25 young people aged 14 to 25 will be recruited and trained to join the Youth Commission. The Commission will engage young people from diverse backgrounds, including harder-to-reach groups with experience of the criminal justice system.

Interfaith Community Listening Event

To seek agreement for funding to support a community listening event with faith leaders.

Women-Specific Conditional Caution Project -Grant Extension

The PCC is requested to confirm his verbal commitment to a six month extension to the Women Specific Cautions Project delivered by Changing Lives to run from April to September 2020. This
extension will enable changes to the force's Out of Court Disposal framework the opportunity to
embed before this work and the wider women's work agenda is considered for commissioning

Bonus & Extra Protection Insurance

This is a self - financing policy offered to employees to protect their no claims and reimburse excess values for damage to vehicles whilst parked in police owned car parks.   The policy is paid for at the start of each financial year and then monthly deductions from payroll are made from employees signed up to the scheme.

Sale of West Bridgford Police Station, Rectory Road, West Bridgford

Following Decision Reference 2019.047, when it was agreed to relocate the Policing, Response and CID teams to the West Bridgford Fire Station and place the existing NeighbourhoodPolice  Station on the market to be sold, a full marketing exercise has been undertaken by Agents Lambert Smith Hampton.

Significant interest was received in the property and a total of 13 offers were received. All offers were conditional upon the receipt of planning permission.

Treasury Indicators - Limits to borrowing activity

The Home Office confirmed that it would pay the pension grant earlier in 2020 than the usual July date to facilitate cash flow difficulties within the policing sector. This statement was misinterpreted by several OPCCs to mean the main pension grant worth c£45m to Nottinghamshire, when the HO actually meant the smaller grant relating pension of £2m.

Based on the initial announcement, investment contracts were entered into. Once the issue had been clarified we were required to borrow to meet the investment needs within our cashflow.

The OPCC also now needs to borrow to meet underwriting costs of PPE for policing, which will be refunded.

Revenue contribution to Capital for Vehicle Purchases

The force has purchased additional vehicles during the financial year in support of Operation Uplift, Knife Crime Surge initiatives and other operational requirements. This will cause the approved capital budget for Vehicle & Equipment replacements to overspend, in order to facilitate this impact on capital financing a revenue contribution to capital is proposed for the amount of £50k.

CED Funding 2019/20 and 2020/21

In line with the Home Secretary's 21st September 2020 announcement, the Home Office is making up to an additional £10 million of grant funding available to increase the number of police officers carrying Conducted Energy Devices (CEDs) to help protect them and the public from harm.

Black Achievers Awards Event

Up to £13,500 funding contribution is being sought to support the 2020 Black Achievers Awards event in Nottingham.

Amendments to the Nottinghamshire Victim CARE Website

Up to £800 funding is being sought to enable changes to be made to the Nottinghamshire Victim CARE website to ensure that it is compliant with new accessibility guidelines and is as accessible as possible to all those who need help in Nottingham/Nottinghamshire.

Creation of Limited Liability Partnership

The report has been prepared to obtain approval for the creation of a separate legal entity in the form of a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) to deliver EMSCU's commercial services (NewCo). NewCo would be jointly owned by the Northamptonshire PFCC and the Nottinghamshire PCC. It is expected that the new LLP shall be incorporated in April 2020, with an expected to go-live July 2020.

Nottinghamshire Victim CARE contract extension 2020/21 and 2019/20 Service Improvement Incentive

In 2016 the PCC commissioned Catch 22 to deliver a new victim support and victim-initiated restorative justice service now known as Nottinghamshire Victim CARE (outlined in Notice of Decision 2017.004). The contract that was awarded ran from the period 15 November 2016 to 31 March 2020 which the potential to extend the contract for two years (1 +1) from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2022.

2020-21 Community Safety Grants to Nottingham Crime and Drugs Partnership (CDP) and Safer Nottinghamshire Board (SNB)

The PCC is requested to confirm his verbal agreement to use 2020-21 Community Safety Grant to:

Award up to £747,660 of the Community Safety Grant to the Nottingham Crime and Drugs Partnership (COP), subject to a satisfactory delivery plan, and award up to £625,118 of the Community Safety Grant to the Safer Nottinghamshire Board (SNB), subject to a satisfactory delivery plan.

Community Safety and Violence Reduction Unit Fund 2020/21

The PCC is requested to confirm his verbal agreement to:

Award up to £249,417 of the 2020-21 Community Safety Grant in small grants to 24 third sector organisations through the 2020-21 Community Safety and Violence Reduction Unit Fun

Construction Phase of the new Nottinghamshire Custody Suite

Award of contract for the construction phase of the New Nottinghamshire Police Custody Suite (Riba Stage 5-7) to Willmott Dixon Construction Limited (WDCL) following an EU compliant process via the SCAPE Procure Framework

DIVA Concert

To seek agreement for £1,000 funding to support a concert in celebration of International Women's Day on Sunday 8th March 2020, with a share of the proceeds going to Nottingham Women's Centre.
The majority of the funding is to enable access for people who would not otherwise be able to afford to attend.

National Justice Museum - Big Give

To seek agreement for £7,990 funding to support the National Justice Museum's Big Give Christmas Challenge 2019.

Police and Crime Survey Uplift

Uplift to costings of the PCC's longitudinal Police and Crime Survey to take account of inflationary increases from 2019/20 and scripting and administrative costs of new questions introduced in December 2019.

Award of Contracts to Delivery County Domestic Abuse Support 2020-8

As outlined in Notice of Decision 2019.025, the PCC agreed to co-commission domestic abuse support services in the county with Nottinghamshire County Council, with the County Council acting as the lead commissioner under the umbrella of an Inter Authority Agreement.

An invitation to tender was published in September 2019. The tender was a framework agreement which included 3 lots:

Lot 1:   Support Services in South Nottinghamshire
Lot 2:   Support Services in North Nottinghamshire
Lot 3:   Provision of Prevention, Promotion and Training

Award of contract to deliver specialist therapeutic support for victims and survivors of sexual violence and abuse - High Volume Fun

The PCC is asked to approve the award of a contract to deliver a specialist therapeutic support service for victims and survivors of sexual violence and abuse
As outlined in Notice of Decision 2020/003, the PCC secured funding from NHS England's High Volume Fund to fund activity including specialist therapy for sexual violence and abuse survivors.

Precept and Budget 2020-21

The Police and Crime Panel met on the 6th February to consider the proposed precept for 2020-21. To support them in this they were provided with budget reports and financial strategies that provided detail on how the precept and government grant would be utilised in 2019-20.

The precept increase proposed was approved by the panel.  The relevant papers can be found here (as not attached to the downloadable decision).

Precept and Priorities Focus Groups 2020

The PCC plans to commission four focus groups across the force area to gather residents' views on the policing budget and resources, the precept for policing and attitudes towards police officer safety.

Procurement of specialist therapeutic support for victims and survivors of sexual violence and abuse

The PCC is asked to approve the procurement of a specialist therapeutic support service for victims and survivors of sexual violence and abuse.

The support will be funded by NHS England/Improvement (NHSE/I), following the PCC's earlier successful bid to NHSE/l's High Volume Fund. The aim of the service is to enable SVA survivors to recover from the harm they have experienced by working in partnership with existing specialist SVA counselling services to provide specialist survivor-centred, trauma informed, needs based counselling and other therapeutic support to adults and children and young people who have experienced sexual violence or abuse.

Joint FHQ New Build

The 2019-24 Capital Programme which was presented at the Police and Crime Panel meeting on 7th February 2019 and subsequently approved by the Police Crime Commissioner on a decision record. This approved a budget for the Joint FHQ New Build to the value of £0.352m in 2019-20 and future years budget of £14.474. The original budget was assumed net of Fire contribution, with a revised budget being recommended at FEB in February 2019 of £18.5m. The budget will be re-phased to this level in the 2020-25 Capital Programme. Due to the lower original budget being set and the momentum of speed that the project is gathering it is requested that £900k of the budget allocated for future years is brought forward to 2019-20 to off-set ground works and other preliminary charges.

Night time levy (Train the Trainer Licence)

To seek approval for spending of Late Night Levy monies for a three year 'Train the Trainer' Licence Agreement with Drinkaware in relation to Nightlife Crew.