Current Estate Priority Work- Streams
The force’s recently updated Asset Management Framework (2023 – 2028) provides the overarching strategic framework for determining departmental priorities and resource effort. The department is currently engaged in some significant projects, programmes and initiatives which collectively represent both challenges and opportunities. The business critical drivers for PSD are the continuing need to work progressively towards a leaner and more cost efficient estate, maintaining estate operability, whilst at the same time actively supporting and enabling the force to achieve its objectives for organisational change and enhanced operational performance [against the background of a very challenging national financial climate]. A PSD senior presence on business programme and project boards is standard practice, ensuring early engagement and identification of estate requirements
The priority work-streams that currently provide the focus of activity and resource allocation for the Head of Strategy & Assets and for other departmental teams include the following: • Force Review Project: Working with the HOE (Head of Estates) on identifying potential new revenue savings across all existing estate budgets and making proposals on further opportunities for estate rationalisation capable of generating additional (new) capital receipts together with reducing ongoing estate revenue costs. • Restructure of Local Policing & Operational Departments (expected completion May 2025): identifying and developing detailed accommodation/workplace plans across the entire force area to facilitate changes arising from the comprehensive restructuring of local geographical policing command units (LCUs) and major front-line operational support departments (e.g. CID, Intelligence, Criminal Justice). • Central Oxfordshire Estate Strategy (COES): Development of this integrated operational policing £100+m estate strategy and delivery programme for Central Oxfordshire including TVP’s two HQ sites in Oxford; the COES is TVP’s most ambitious and complex estate change programme and involves multiple interdependent estate projects over a 0-10 year horizon (strategy & specific projects development underway) • PFI Strategy: Working with the HOF (Head of Facilities) on the development of a deliverable estate strategy for TVP’s current PFI contract on a major operational policing hub which is due to end in 2030 • Neighbourhood Policing Estate (NHP): involvement in an in-depth review and challenge of the use/occupancy of TVP’s NHP estate to examine the scope for rationalisation, amalgamation of under-used accommodation/buildings or identification of new requirements, some aligned to strategic growth • Asset Management Framework (AMF): although approved in late 2023, and not due for a substantive review until 2028, there is an annual requirement to refresh key annexes around TVP’s rolling 10 year Strategic Estate Requirements Plan (SERP) and the individual site retention indicator schedule. • Developer Contributions: TVP, through the department’s Strategic Growth Planner role which is managed by the HOS&A, is one of few police forces to have successfully engaged the planning system to access developer funding for operational policing requirements and also to secure provision of some new NHP offices aligned to strategic housing growth. This is an important revenue stream for TVP alongside the income from telecom masts.
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