Purpose of collaboration
Police and crime commissioners and chief constables across the South West work together to seek opportunities to align nationally and regionally and are committed to working together where this:
- Supports the direction and delivery of their respective Police and Crime Plans;
- Builds policing, capability, capacity, and resilience to provide effective and efficient services for each policing area;
- Enables long term operational effectiveness and economy through greater interoperability, integration, or joint working of policing and public services;
- Achieves value for money through economies of scale, increased efficiency, greater effectiveness, or improved potential for sustainable delivery;
- Supports the delivery of our statutory duties to collaborate and to secure value for money for our communities.
- Enables clear accountability, good governance, and transparency
Current areas of collaboration across the South West include:
- South West Forensics delivering the full range of forensic services across the five force areas
- South West Regional Organised Crime Unit
- South West Procurement with manages procurement for police forces and police and crime commissioners’’ offices
- Our strategic alliance with Dorset Police, with a number of services delivered jointly across the two force areas such, finance, IT and HR
We are also part of a number of national police organisations such as National Police Air Service (NPAS) and National County Lines.