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Policing is one of the core services of government, but there is a wide range of support services undertaken by uniformed police officers that are capable of being delivered by civilians from the public or private sectors. These include facilities management associated with new and refurbished infrastructure, and IT-enabled services.
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| Making Time: Freeing Up Front-Line Policing (PDF) |
| Sotiropoulos, Alexis, 2008 |
| The Serco Institute |
| A report on the UK market for police services. It focuses on the implementation of reforms and innovations by police forces that have permitted more efficient use of support services and freed up warranted officers to return to front-line duties. |
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| Footing the Bill: Reforming the Police Service (PDF) |
| Loveday, Barry and McClory, Jonathan, 2008 |
| Policy Exchange |
| A report on improving police efficiency despite declining central government funding by proposing opportunities for workforce modernisation and private provision of certain services. |
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| Public Services at the Crossroads |
| Brooks, Richard (Ed.), 2007 |
| Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr) |
| This report argues that UK public services in 2007 are “at a crossroads” with a new government offering the opportunity to steer a new course in reform. It focuses on the health, education and criminal justice sectors to outline “a progressive agenda” in which social justice is placed at the heart of public service policy. It is cautiously optimistic about the role played by (quasi-)markets in public services, arguing that the principle reason for private and voluntary sector involvement “is not the inherent superiority of one type of provider over another, but rather the opportunity that such diversity offers to generate competitive pressure for improvement among providers from all sectors”. |
| ISBN: 978-1-86030-315-9 |
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| Better Policing Through Partnership (PDF) |
| CBI, 2006 |
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| Report on the use of private sector providers to assist in police functions such as custody and investigation, as well as in ICT and estate renewal. The reforms aim to deliver greater productivity and efficiency in addition to releasing more police officers for front line work. |
| ISBN 0 85201 642 5 |
| UK |
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| Criminal Records Bureau: Delivering Safer Recruitment? (PDF) |
| National Audit Office (NAO), 2004 |
| The Stationery Office |
| Report on the public office designed to run criminal record checks for employers which was established through a public-private partnership. Includes a discussion of how well the service model for the CRB was understood at the time of project commissioning. Session 2003-2004 |
| HC 266 |
| UK |
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| Forensic Science on Trial (PDF) |
| House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, 2005 |
| The Stationery Office |
| A report on the transformation of the Forensic Science Service into a PPP and regulation of the forensic science market. |
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| UK |
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| Public Private Partnerships: Airwave (Web Page) |
| House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, 2002 |
| The Stationery Office |
| Response to the NAO report (below). The committee also considered the use of a "clawback" clause that would have allowed the Home Office to share the gains accrued from further partners coming on board after negotiations had ended, such as the Fire and Ambulance Services. |
| HC 783 Session 2001-2002 |
| UK |
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| Public Private Partnerships: Airwave (Report) (PDF) |
| National Audit Office (NAO), 2002 |
| The Stationery Office |
| Lessons learned from the PFI deal between the Police Information Technology Organisation and O2 to procure a single national secure radio communications network. Highlights the importance of applying a "should-cost" model in cases where only a single bidder is left at the tendering stage and the problems of relying on a public sector comparator when new, untested technology is being introduced.
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| HC 730 Session 2001-2002 |
| UK |
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| Policing a New Century: A Blueprint for Reform (PDF) |
| Home Office, 2001 |
| The Stationery Office |
| Police Reform White Paper introducing a programme to help tackle criminal and anti-social behaviour through greater partnership working. It promotes the further civilianisation and/or contracting out of routine police functions so as to free up more police officers for front line duties. |
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| Private Prisons and Police: Recent Australian Trends |
| Moyle, Paul , 1994 |
| Pluto Press |
| A collection of essays reflecting the perspectives of academics, practitioners and industry which addresses the theoretical and practical issues surrounding the contracting of prison and policing services. |
| ISBN 1 86493 913 5 |
| Australia |
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