- About Us
- The Police and Crime Plan
- David Sidwick's first 100 days
- The Police & Crime Plan
- PROTECTING PEOPLE AT RISK OF HARM
- Increase crime reporting
- Hold agencies to account for reducing crime
- Provide resources to the Force for emerging crime areas
- Expand mental health work with Dorset healthcare
- Ensure compliance with the Strategic Policing Requirement
- Lobby to improve port security
- Improve safeguarding for vulnerable children and adults
- Challenge fraud service for vulnerable victims
- Tackling modern slavery
- Scope a mental health app for officers
- Improve mental health joint working arrangements
- Supporting veterans
- Support a hate crime awareness raising event
- Stop any escalation of knife crime
- Introduce return home interviews for adults who go missing
- Expand youth diversion activities
- Work with the Chief Constable to create a police cadet scheme
- Expand the Paedophile Online Investigation Team
- Increase the size of the Safe Schools and Community Team
- Lobby for an end to use of custody as a 'place of safety'
- Lobby for more work to reduce the risks of suicide
- Ensure Dorset Police adopt a mental health delivery plan
- Create a vulnerable person's directorate
- WORKING WITH OUR COMMUNITIES
- Enhance the way we capture the public's views
- Publish an annual report highlighting the views of Dorset residents
- Establish problem solving forums to find innovative solutions
- Fund new approaches to tackling homelessness
- Fund new approaches to tackling fly tipping
- Fund new approaches to tackling county lines
- Continue the pan-Dorset cyber crime awareness campaign
- Improve the police response to business crime
- Continue to build on relationships with business communities
- Commission road safety charities to run driver training courses
- Redesign the Dorset Roadsafe website to boost prevention
- Raise driver awareness of poor decision making
- Continue to lobby Government to lower the drink drive limit
- Provide resources for the Force to tackle drink driving
- Undertake a drug driving awareness campaign across Dorset
- Fund an extra post in the Marine Unit
- Create a rural crime team
- Improve Dorset Police website to boost public accessibility
- Introduce neighbourhood policing team webchats
- Introduce PCC webchats to engage with public
- Make PCC surgeries more accessible by creating online option
- Develop ways for the public to contact Dorset police online
- Continue to bring the police to the heart of the communities they serve
- Introduce a neighbourhood engagement contract
- Continue to educate young people about staying safe online
- Provide better support to protect businesses against online crime
- Continue to promote volunteering opportunities
- Develop a bobby van scheme for Dorset
- SUPPORTING VICTIMS, WITNESSES & REDUCING REOFFENDING
- Lobby for police to be able to insist on high risk individuals being tagged
- Explore more behaviour changing courses for offenders
- Establish a repeat Victims Champion who will work with difficult cases
- Lobby the Government to sponsor a pilot Victims' Lawyer scheme
- Retendering the victim support services contract
- Explore ways to reduce reoffending through mentoring
- Expand tagging of offenders in Dorset
- Expand restorative justice so victims can meet offenders in prison
- Improve the efficiency of courts
- Expand neighbourhood justice panels across Dorset
- Pick up services such as peer and public mentoring
- Extend AFC Bournemouth referral scheme to include young offenders
- Research into whether custody environment can be improved
- TRANSFORMING FOR THE FUTURE
- Increase resources available to frontline policing
- Continue making sure public money is well spent
- Ensure that any debt is minimised
- Undertake independent review of the OPCC
- Uphold prudent finances with adequate reserves
- Fight to get a fair share of the Police Funding Formula
- Keep Dorset's Neighbourhood Policing Teams
- Keep PCSOs in Dorset
- Deploy new resources to frontline duties
- Support the health and wellbeing of officers and staff
- Work with regional partners to keep people safe
- Develop ways to allow the best to enter the Force
- Improve technology for virtual hearings
- Improve computer technology for remote evidence
- Continue to pursue better technology
- Introduce body worn video for officers
- Continue to invest in more advanced drones
- Enable police to give court evidence remotely
- Create a panel to examine complaints
- Create a volunteer group to observe police contact
- Develop a use of force scrutiny panel
- Develop an out of court disposal scrutiny panel
- Improve the PCC's transparency arrangements
- Explore new ways to minimise supervisory costs
- Use new tech to improve police deployment
- Make the OPCC the first point of contact for police complaints
- Create the Safer Dorset Foundation
- Continue to seek ways to reduce the Force's carbon footprint and save money
- Build on evidence based policing methods and introduce best practice
- PROTECTING PEOPLE AT RISK OF HARM
- 2013-2017 Police & Crime Plan
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- Working in Partnership
- Community Grant Projects - 2019-20
- Commissioned Projects 2019-20
- Receive Funding From Us
- Safer Dorset Fund - Community Grant
- Key Partnerships
- Commissioned projects 2020-21
- Operation Relentless Community Fund - ASB
- Development Opportunities
- Anti-Social Behaviour and Community Trigger
- Restorative Justice
- Victim Care
- Dorset Criminal Justice Board
- Dorset Police Cadets
- Transparency