The Police Estate
The Hampshire and Isle of Wight police estate has been changing to meet the needs of Hampshire Constabulary police officers, staff and the communities they serve and to ensure it is fit for the future. There are circa 130 owned, leased or partnership properties that form the police estate. These range from large Police Investigation Centres (PICs) with custody suites, police stations, offices, to vehicle workshops and specialist facilities. The police workforce comprises of over 5,000 officers, PCSOs and police staff. In some locations the PCC partners with local government or HIWFRS to provide shared facilities. A forward thinking, business case driven corporate approach to the provision of both the built estate and services required to support the estate has been adopted. This has fundamentally changed both the working environment and the way people feel about the places in which they work. We are leading the way in state of the art police investigation centres, now open and operating in Southampton, Basingstoke and Portsmouth.
The programme to restructure the estate aims to:
• Provide better support to frontline services and to better align the whole estate with the changes that will continue to be required in operational policing. • Complete construction work without impacting police budgets through the sale of police buildings that have reached the end of their economic life or are no longer fit for the purpose. • Ensure that both the quality and the value of the estate continue to improve and increase through the reinvestment of these capital receipts.
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