ASSET MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK 2023 - 2033
1.3 HOW THE POLICE SERVICE IS DELIVERED
The Force currently operates through 11 Local Policing Areas ( LPA’s ) aligned to local authority political boundaries, and a range of forcewide shared service departments, delivering both operational and support functions centrally or from area based hubs. The LPA structure is under review in 2023 and may alter, with any implications for the estate needing to be considered. TVP works closely with partners such as councils, other public, voluntary and emergency services and criminal justice organisations such as HM Courts & Tribunal Service, Probation Service, and the Crown Prosecution Service. TVP also works in collaboration with other forces to ensure community safety, in its broadest terms, is delivered as effectively as possible. The most significant are the Joint Operations Unit with Hampshire Constabulary, and South East regional working including counter terrorism, organised crime and other activity. Estate provision needs to enable and support this complex organisational and operating structure, and to respond effectively to change.
1.4 ORGANISATIONAL, POLITICAL AND ESTATES STRUCTURE
The Police service is currently managed nationally through a tri-partite arrangement between the Home Office, the Chief Constables of each force and Police and Crime Commissioners. Locally, the police service is delivered by Thames Valley Police and is overseen by the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for Thames Valley. The actions, decisions and performance of the PCC are in turn scrutinised by an independent Police and Crime Panel. There are strong links at a strategic level between the Force and PCC, and both headquarters functions are currently based in Kidlington, Oxfordshire All Force activity falls under the direction of the Chief Constable’s Management Team. Legal ownership of the property portfolio is vested in the Police & Crime Commissioner. The responsibility for the management of all aspects of the TVP estate on behalf of both the Chief Constable and the PCC, lies with the Force’s in-house Estates team, operating within the portfolio of the Deputy Chief Constable (DCC). The primary estates oversight and decision making forum is the Strategic Estates Group (SEG) which typically meets quarterly, is chaired by the DCC and includes senior officers of the Force and Office of the PCC, and other relevant stakeholders. The Estates department is an in-house HQ function comprising Strategy & Assets, Capital Schemes, Maintenance and Facilities teams, the latter predominantly area based. Departmental activity is supported, when needed, by the use of external consultants.
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