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A Report of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary
Grampian Police 1998
APPENDIX B

SUMMARY OF OBSERVATIONS AND GOOD PRACTICE

1. The need to review chief superintendent roles. Para 1.16
2. Increased use of "pooling" arrangement for senior officers. Para 1.20
3. Review of corporate plan. Para 1.26
4. Good Practice: Award of "Charter Mark" Para 2.1
5. Revised approach to policing plan. Para 2.6
6. Use of unrealistic targets for performance monitoring. Para 2.7
7. More effort needed to enlist support of public in attitude survey. Para 2.8
8. Need for close monitoring of performance data in reporting to Procurator Fiscal to meet national standards. Para 2.9
9. Need to reinstate programme of internal inspections. Para 2.10
10. Review of links between Health and Safety and Complaints and Discipline with Inspectorate and Review. Para 2.11
11. Urgent need to ensure security of official police notebooks. Para 2.13
12. Need to revive commitment to Local Improvement Groups. Para 2.14
13. Low Financial Awareness. Para 3.5
14. Need to review arrangement for internal audit priorities. Para 3.11
15. Need to address funding arrangements for CCTV. Para 3.12
16. No progress in devolved budgeting. Para 3.13
17. Good Practice: Significant enhancement of buildings Para 3.16
18. No representation of staff associations on Property Strategy Group. Para 3.18
19. Need for Property Strategy Group to concentrate efforts on few strategic sites in Aberdeen. Para 3.19
20. Room for further rationalisation of offices in remote areas. Para 3.20
21. Detailed review needed of policy to purchase petrol vehicles. Para 3.21
22. Excessive number of four-wheel drive vehicles. Para 3.23
23. Good Practice: New version of IS/IT Strategy Para 4.2
24. Need to apply new IS/IT strategy. Para 4.3
25. Commitment to introducing PRINCE. Para 4.4
26. Need to formulate own terms and conditions for maintenance and supply contracts. Para 4.5
27. Need for IT Department business plan. Para 4.6
28. Need to capitalise on revenue gathering potential of hilltop sites. Para 4.7
29. Good Practice: Appointment of PSRCP project manager. Para 4.9
30. Need for public telephone facilities at appropriate offices. Para 4.11
31. Need for review of mobile data terminal project. Para 4.12
32. Need to exercise contingency plan for disaster recovery of force operations room. Para 4.13
33. No IS/IT training strategy. Para 4.14
34. Commitment to audit force systems. Para 4.15
35. Good Practice: Introduction of IT Security policy. Para 4.17
36. Need to incorporate good financial information in advance recruitment planning. Para 5.2
37. Problem of attracting experienced officers to work in rural areas. Para 5.3
38. Good Practice: Human resources working environment. Para 5.4
39. Good Practice: Human resources strategy. Para 5.6
40. Good Practice: Arrangements for training successful assessment centre candidates. Para 5.8
41. Need to demonstrate fairness in assessment centre process. Para 5.9
42. Good Practice: Investors in People. Para 5.11
43. Need for project management of personnel computer system. Para 5.13
44. Lack of attention to grievance procedures. Para 5.14
45. Disappointing level of women in promoted posts. Para 5.15
46. Good Practice: Commitment to women employers Para 5.16
47. No absence management policy. Para 5.17
48. Need for uniform availability and awareness of post incident debriefing. Para 5.18
49. Good Practice: Encouragement for officers on sick leave to return to duty. Para 5.19
50. Need to ensure no reduced commitment to civilianisation by policy of encouraging officers on sick leave back to work on light duties roles.
Para 5.19
51. Need to review urgently long term provision of occupational health. Para 5.20
52. Need for evaluation of Substance Misuse Policy. Para 5.21
53. Need for strong links between Health and Safety Officer and HR Department. Para 5.23
54. Good Practice: Analysis of training abstractions Para 5.24
55. Good Practice: Minimisation of unnecessary abstractions for exams. Para 5.24
56. Need to devolve management responsibility of training sergeants to local commanders. Para 5.25
57. Good Practice: Action on identified training needs. Para 5.26
58. Good Practice: Integration of special constables. Para 5.32
59. Scope for use of civilian staff in administrative support and turnkey roles. Para 5.33
60. Need to review all areas of specialist support to ensure best use of specialist civilian expertise. Para 5.33
61. Need to review procedures for filling of civilian support staff vacancies. Para 5.35
62. Good Practice: Support staff development system. Para 5.36
63. Scope for development of civilian support staff. Para 5.38
64. Need to continue to make every effort to consult with all parties in the development of force policy. Para 5.39
65. Need for programme of scheduled meetings for JNCC. Para 5.40
66. Good Practice: Introduction of crime strategy. Para 6.3
67. Good Practice: Use of crime desk. Para 6.4
68. Need for review of crime management. Para 6.7
69. Need for review of structure of criminal intelligence. Para 6.9
70. Good Practice: Crime prevention training for community liaison and other officers. Para 6.13
71. Good Practice: Police Box education package. Para 6.19
72. Need for review of position of school liaison officers. Para 6.20
73. Need to review urgently arrangements to address domestic violence. Para 6.30
74. Need for review of Huntly murder. Para 6.31
75. Need to review Traffic involvement in reporting fatal road accidents. Para 6.40
76. Need to amend procedures for firearms licensing administration. Para 6.45
77. Scope to bring royalty and counter-terrorism planning under the umbrella of emergency planning. Para 6.54
78. Review of arrangements for preparation of response plans for explosives stores. Para 6.54
79. Need for monitoring arrangements for fingerprinting arrested persons. Para 6.56
80. Need for monitoring arrangements for the taking of DNA samples. Para 6.57
81. Need to review resourcing arrangements for forensic science laboratory. Para 6.59
82. Need to review presumptive testing arrangements and drugs production storage. Para 6.59
83. Good Practice: Establishment of Complaints Improvement Group Para 7.8(ii)
84. Scope for extending practice of giving full explanation to complainers. Para 7.8(vii)
85. Scope for review of video coverage of charge bars and cell passages. Para 7.8(viii)
86. Scope for review of video in drugs raids. Para 7.18
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