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Recommendation 10
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Acknowledged
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Urgently set out a ten-year policing workforce plan addressing numbers, skills, and London's challenges.
Recommendation
We again recommend that the Home Office set out a workforce plan and strategy for policing over the next ten years as a matter of urgency. As previously set out, the plan should address officer and staff numbers and skills and particular attention should be placed on recognised areas of shortage. London has unique challenges in this respect, including the policing of protest, which should be taken into consideration. The plan should be subject to periodic review and impact analysis.
Government Response Summary
The government states it continues to work with forces to maintain officer numbers and supports individual forces in developing their own workforce plans. It is working with national policing partners to develop longer-term plans but does not explicitly commit to the Home Office setting out a national workforce plan and strategy itself.
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Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
Following successful delivery of the Police Uplift Programme, the Government has continued to work with forces to support the commitment to maintain officer numbers at Uplift levels. It is important that each police force has an effective workforce plan in place, to meet current and future needs. The Home Office continues to work closely with policing partners nationally as they seek to build on the success of the Uplift in developing longer term workforce plans.