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Police and Crime Standards Directorate

Director: Paul Evans

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The Police and Crime Standards Directorate aims to maintain standards of excellence in policing, and in initiatives that aim to ensure community safety. It's made up of the following units:

Focus on performance management

We do this by focussing on performance - each unit within the directorate, has responsibility for different aspects of performance management.

• Performance Framework & Assessment Unit  - develops tools that measure and analyse data on a regional and a national level.
• Performance & Partnership Policy Unit - reviews these analyses and formulates policy accordingly, developing and monitoring performance goals.
• Partnership Performance Support Unit - works closely with this unit to ensure that the desired performance outcomes are delivered on a regional and national level.
• Police and Partnerships Standards Unit - provides intensive support to police forces and Basic Command Units to help them meet the desired levels of performance.  It also runs national policing projects.
• Offender-based Interventions Unit - complements this work by targetting persistent and prolific offenders of all ages to break the cycle of criminal behaviour.  This includes the Drugs Interventions Programme, as well as initiatives to tackle those offenders whose alcohol problems drive criminality. Constant feedback is provided from the operational delivery units to those that measure and review performance, to ensure that targets are appropriate and optimal.
• Business Support Unit - underpins the work of the Directorate as a whole by providing human resources, finance and procurement services. The Unit also facilitates marketing and communications by acting as the point of contact for all units of the directorate.