Helping the Force protect people at risk of harm
Protecting people at risk of harm has always been at the heart of policing.
- About Us
- The Police and Crime Plan
- 2017-2021 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
- WORKING WITH OUR COMMUNITIES
- SUPPORTING VICTIMS, WITNESSES & REDUCING REOFFENDING
- 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
- PROTECTING PEOPLE AT RISK OF HARM
- 2013-2017 Police & Crime Plan
- 2017-2021 Police & Crime Plan
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