Getting Personal with Communities
Getting Personal with Communities
Reassuring the public and providing a good service are real strengths for Leicestershire Constabulary.
In performance terms – we’re ahead of our most similar force comparisons and we’re improving. We won’t improve further on that performance if we’re complacent about our success, nor will we get better if we’re not critical of our own shortcomings.
For example, if we scratch the surface on how well we keep victims and witnesses informed of the progress of their cases, we find we have much to do to provide the sort of service we’d all want for ourselves and our families and friends.
Over the coming months, pathfinder projects at Coalville, Melton, Hamilton, St Matthews and Beaumont Leys will develop practical ways of improving the quality of service we provide to communities, both out on patrol and back at the station.
Getting Personal with Communities is Leicestershire Constabulary’s strategy for delivering the neighbourhood policing and citizen focus objectives within the National Policing Plan.
Our approach to neighbourhood policing is about having the right people in the right place in the right numbers to provide a second to none policing service in our communities.
Our plans for citizen focus are about making ourselves accessible, keeping people informed, engaging effectively with our communities and translating public concerns into our policing priorities. It’s also about us being honest about what we can deliver and not making promises we can’t keep.
Taken together, Getting Personal with Communities is about moving forward the proud community policing history of Leicestershire Constabulary and professionalising this in a focused business-like way for the 21st century to make people safer and more confident in the service we provide.
Most of all, it’s about delivering a local policing service that is second to none.
