Recommendation 16

The Department told us that the approach it is now taking is “to have the police on the inside”, with policing involved in all the decision-making at every single level.29 The Department said that previously in the programme, police had been part of the wider governance regime, but not part of the leadership team. It commented that previously 23 Q 13 24 Q 18 25 C&AG’s Report, paras 17, 2.1–2.2 26 C&AG’s Report, para 1.14 27 Q 13 28 Q 14 29 Q 17 The National Law Enforcement Data Programme 13 the relationship between the Department and the policing felt like a ‘customer-supplier’ relationship, but the new engagement model was much more of a partnership approach, with police representatives clearly there to co-deliver.30 The Department told us that its new engagement model is co-authored, agreed jointly with the police, and that the NLEDS programme was a pathfinder programme for this new way of working together.31