SECONDMENT OPPORTUNITY:
This vacancy is open to currently substantive Assistant Chief Constables only.
The Public Safety Group (PSG) in the Home Office is responsible for a set of outcomes which are fundamental to our national life. Our role is to keep the public safe by cutting crime (including by disrupting the highest harm criminals), protecting the vulnerable and ensuring that our critical police, fire and rescue services are as efficient and effective as they can be in delivering front line public services.
To deliver on our mission, we develop and deliver policy, provide funding, deliver legislation, and make the most of innovation, data, and partnerships to prevent crime, protect the vulnerable, and tackle the highest harm crimes, The Public Safety mission leads on keeping people safe.
A new function has been created within PSG which will see the introduction of a new Police Standards and Performance Improvement Directorate. The Police Improvement Unit will be a new unit within this directorate.
You will lead a team of around 12 FTE multi-disciplinary professionals, providing critical senior leadership and urgently moving forward this exciting new function.
You will develop, help shape and create the establishment of a new Home Office police improvement function to drive police force performance improvements focusing on the Home Secretary’s national priorities. You will work in partnership with HMICFRS to advise the Home Secretary and Ministers about police force performance in England and Wales, especially on key priorities. And you will work in partnership with the College of Policing, policing leads and others to provide performance improvement support to police forces where it is required as part of a renewed “ladder of support and intervention” being developed for a Police Reform White Paper. This will be a key part of delivering the Government’s new Safer Streets Mission.
The successful candidate will be required to provide strategic, decisive leadership across the policing system as a whole via the development of strong, collaborative working relationships with senior policing leaders including HMICFRS, the College of Policing and Chief Constables and other policing leaders. You will have high quality performance analysis skills, being able to use data and qualitative insight to both support and challenge police forces, whilst building strong foundations for a trusted presence in the policing system. You will be required to also work collaboratively with the Police Standards and Performance Improvement Director, Policing Policy Director, Director of Strategy Capability and Resources and other colleagues across the Public Safety Group, Home Office, and partners in the wider criminal justice system.
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