Shadow Strategic Policing Requirement
The Home Secretary has published a non statutory 'Shadow Strategic Policing Requirement' (Shadow SPR), which sets out her view (as Home Secretary) of the national threats that the police must address and the appropriate national policing capabilities required to counter those threats.
This is a statement of the collective capabilities that police forces across England and Wales will be expected to have in place in order to protect the public from cross-boundary threats such as terrorism, civil emergencies, public disorder and organised crime.
The 'Shadow SPR' does not, at this stage, have statutory effect, but policing partners are strongly encouraged to have regard to it when exercising their responsibilities and to use this as an opportunity to test and learn from it before the statutory SPR is issued next summer. Both police and crime commissioners and chief constables will be required to have regard to the 'Strategic Policing Requirement' from November 2012 in their planning and resource allocation.
A Welsh version of 'Shadow SPR' is available upon request.
Date: Wed Nov 16 14:39:50 GMT 2011
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