Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 4 April 2017 to Question 69588, on police, which recommendations contained in the Reshaping Policing for the Public report her Department (a) plans to implement and (b) has implemented since that report was published.

The paper, “Reshaping Policing for the Public”, was intended to stimulate discussion on the future of policing, concluding that “the police service must go further in changing itself so that it continues to achieve its primary goal of preventing crime and keeping the public safe”. Since the publication of this paper, the Government has provided support to the policing sector to enable it to become self-reforming. This includes the Police Transformation Fund (PTF) which provides Police and Crime Commissioners with a real opportunity to transform policing and it is incentivising policing to meet future challenges by being more efficient and effective. The Police Reform and Transformation Board makes recommendations to the Home Secretary about how to spend the PTF.