West Mercia Police

Freedom of Information Publication Scheme

Guide to Published Information

Updated June 2014

Information class / Description of information / Location of information / Fee / Update/
archive schedule
Who we are and what we do
  • Force structure
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  • Map of force area showing each local policing area
  • Organisational chart showing Chief Officers areas of responsibility and generic department titles
  • Officer and police staff establishment
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/ None
None
None / Updated when significant changes occur
Updated when significant changes occur
Updated quarterly
  • Profiles of Chief and Senior Officers
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  • Chief Officers and Senior Police Staff
  • Territorial Commanders
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  • Chief Constable:
    Deputy Chief Constable:
    Assistant Chief Constable Local Policing:

    Assistant Chief Constable Protective Services:

    Director of Enabling Services

    Director of Finance:

  • Herefordshire:

    North Worcestershire:

    Shropshire:

    South Worcestershire:

    Telford & Wrekin

/ None / Updated when significant changes occur
  • Identity of senior police staff
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  • Heads of department profiles
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  • All can be accessed via
/ None / Updated when significant changes occur
  • Location of police stations and public opening hours
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  • Listing of addresses of police stations and opening hours
  • Mobile police stations
  • Surgeries and shared buildings
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  • Dates and venues of mobile police stations are published on individual Safer Neighbourhood Teams pages as they occur, within the ‘events’ tab. See for a list of all Safer Neighbourhood Team pages.
  • Dates of police surgeries are published on individual Safer Neighbourhood Teams pages as they occur, within the ‘events’ tab. Shared buildings used by police for public contact are also published within this tab. See for a list of all Safer Neighbourhood Team pages.
/ None / Updated when significant changes occur
  • Contact details
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  • Emergency and non-emergency telephone numbers
  • Text number for general enquiries
  • Email address for general enquiries
  • Postal address for general enquiries
  • Contact details for local policing teams
  • How to report a crime
  • How to make a complaint
  • Firearms Licensing
  • Freedom of Information and Data Protection Act requests
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  • West Mercia does not operate a general SMS text facility, however, text facilities requiring registration are available for people with disabilities who are unable to contact us by other means. Details are available at:





/ None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None for general information Fees apply for licenses
None for information available online. £10 is charged for Data Protection Subject Access Requests
/ All sections updated when significant changes occur
  • Relationships with other authorities
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  • Links to all major partner organsiations West Mercia Police works with or serves as a constituent member
  • Collaborative arrangements
  • Police & Crime Commissioner
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  • and
/ None
None
None / All updated when significant changes occur
  • Arrangements for special constables and civilian volunteers
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  • Special Constabulary
  • Civilian volunteers
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/ None
None / Updated when significant changes occur
Updated when significant changes occur
  • Sponsorship arrangements with business
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  • Details of policy statement on sponsorship and value and nature of current sponsorship arrangements
/ / None / Updated when significant changes occur
What we spend and how we spend it
  • Annual statement of accounts and summary of accounts
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  • Audited accounts for the last three financial years
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  • 2012/13 (PCC) –
  • 2012/13 (West Mercia Police) -
  • 2011/12 –
  • 2010/11 -
/ None / Updated annually
  • Force budget (as agreed by Police Authority)
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  • Details of the current financial year budget and future financial planning
  • Details of previous two year's budgets
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  • Contained within the Funding Your Police Service 2014/15 leaflet

    Further information also contained in the Budget Report, published by the PCC:
  • 2013/14 – Contained within the Funding Your Police Service 2013/14leaflet

    Further information also contained in the Budget Report, published by the PCC:
  • 2012/13 –
/ Updated annually in February following agreement of the budget
  • Expenditure over £500
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  • Details of all invoices of over £500 paid by the Authority
/ / None / Monthly
  • Procurement procedures
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  • Our policies and procedures on procurement
  • Sites where we advertise for tenders
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/ None
None / Updated when significant changes occur
Current information provided
  • Details of contracts currently being tendered
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  • Sites where we advertise contracts for tender or framework solutions
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  • westmercia.police.g2b.info/cgi-gen/profile.pl?action=view_profile&oid=500#top
/ None / Current informat ion provided
  • List of values and contracts
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  • List of contracts which have been through a formal tendering process
/ / None / Annually
  • Expenses paid to chief officers and senior police staff
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  • Details of expenses paid to Chief Officers, Senior Officers and police staff
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/ None / Published quarterly (chief officers) and monthly (senior staff)
  • Evaluation of Police Use of Resources
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  • Audit Commission PURE report
  • Auditor's reports
  • HMIC Crime and Policing Comparator
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  • No report available (not published since 2008)
  • Available from Police & Crime Commissioner website at:
/ None
None
None / Annually or as published by Audit Commission
Annually
As published by HMIC
  • Support for the provisions of Community Support Officers
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  • Details of annual budget for CSOs and the sources of that funding
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/ None / Annually
  • Financial Regulations
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  • Copy of the financial regulations and Home Office guidelines
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/ None / Updated when significant changes occur
What our priorities are and how we are doing
  • Strategic plans
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  • Forces strategic plans for current and previous two financial years, includes annual policing plan
/ / None / Annually
  • AreaPolicing Plans
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  • Policing plans for each local area
/ West Mercia Police no longer produces separate area policing plans. However, area plans for previous years are included below:

/ None / Updated annually
  • Chief Officer's Annual Report
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  • Performance summary and delivery of policing plans
/ / None / Annually
  • Police performance assessments
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  • Assessment of performance against the policing plan and performance indicators
  • HMIC Reports
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  • Quarterly summaries for current year and end of year reports for previous two years at :
  • 2010 HMIC/Audit Commission Inspection report:
/ None
None / Quarterly for current year, annual thereafter
As changes occur
  • Police Force Statistics
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  • Crime mapping
  • Home Office Police Service Strength Report
  • Crime in England and Wales Reports
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/ None
None
None / Monthly
Every six months
Annually
  • Neighbourhood Policing Arrangements
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  • Details of Local Policing Teams
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  • Details of individual teams can be found by choosing from a list of areas or by scrolling through an interactive map.
/ None / As changes occur
  • Reports from Independent Custody Visitors
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  • Reports provided to West Mercia Police & Crime Commissioner
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  • Available from Police & Crime Commissioner website at:

/ None / Reports are added as they are published.
  • Monitoring of Stop and Account and Stop and Search
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  • Statistics for number of stops PACE and ethnicity monitoring
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  • Contained within our Equality Duty Report:
/ None / Published annually
Our policies and procedures
  • Policies and procedures
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  • A-Z listing of our policies and procedures. Includes policies and procedures for the conduct of force business, provision of policing services and recruitment and employment of staff
  • Current vacancies in the organisation
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/ None
None / Updated as changes occur
Updated as changes occur
  • Customer service standards and complaint procedure
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  • How to make a complaint
  • Independent Police Complaints Commission
  • Requests for information
  • Response times
  • Cost recovery policy
  • Customer Service Standards
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  • ACPO policy adopted by force:

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None
None
None
None
None / Updated as changes occur
Updated as changes occur
Updated as changes occur
Updated as changes occur
Updated as changes occur
Updated as changes occur
  • Records management and personal data policies
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  • Policies in accordance with the Code of Practice for the Management of Police Information
  • Copy of Code of Practice
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  • Records Management Policy
  • Records Management Procedure
  • Records Management Diversity Impact Assessment
  • Management of Police Information Code of Practice
/ None
None / Updated as changes occur
Updated as changes occur
  • Charging regime
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  • Listing of fees and charges
/ / None / Updated as fees and charges change
Lists and registers
  • Information held in registers by statute
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  • Registers the police service is required to maintain by law
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  • There are no registers that the police service is required to hold by statute
/ N/a / N/a
  • Asset register and information asset register
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  • Details of any assets and information registers held by the force
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  • Asset Register 2012-13:
  • Schedule of Premises:

West Mercia Police is not required to keep an Information asset register and does not currently do so. / None / Annually
  • Register of interests
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  • A summary of business interests declared by police officers and civilian staff
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/ None / Annually
  • Register of gifts and hospitality provided to senior personnel
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  • Summary of gifts and hospitality provided to Chief Officers, senior officers and senior police staff
/ / None / Annually
  • FOI Disclosure log
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  • Listing of requests made under Freedom of Information
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/ None / Monthly
How we make decisions
  • Agenda and minutes for the senior decision making committees
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  • Minutes of the force's strategic level meetings
/ / None / Minutes are published once agreed as correct at the next subsequent meeting
  • Feedback from public consultation and surveys
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  • Details of public surveys, including Crime & Safety Survey
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/ None / Updated as changes occur
Services provided by the police and force
  • Advice and guidance for the general public
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  • As well as links to our own advice, we have included links to Government and other policing sites
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  • Crime prevention and personal safety advice available at:

  • Association of Chief Police Officers website has details of national policing initiatives:

  • Gov.uk:
  • Ask The Police:
/ None / Updated as changes occur
  • Firearms and explosives licensing
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  • Licensing information, safety advice, application forms, guidance and fees
/ / None / Updated as changes occur
  • Policing college or learning centre
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  • Details of the training school and conference facilities
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  • Please contact the Training School on 0300 333 3000 for more information about the force’s training facilities.
  • Conference facilities:
/ None
None / N/a
Updated as changes occur
  • Museum
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  • Details of the force museum
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  • West Mercia Police does not have a force museum
/ N/a / N/a
  • Local campaigns
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  • Our crime prevention initiatives
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/ None / Updated as changes occur
  • Media releases
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  • Latest media releases and archived releases
/ / None / Updated as changes occur
  • Details of the services for which the police is entitled to recover a fee together with those fees
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  • Contained within our Fees and Charges Guidance
  • Policing of football matches and events and the fees charged
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  • There were no events (football matches, fairs, fetes, processions etc) in 2013 for which West Mercia Police provided policing resources in excess of 300 officers.
  • ACPO Guidance For Football Deployment and Cost Recovery
  • ACPO Guidance on Charging For Police Services
/ None
None / Updated annually
Updated annually
Making The Difference / Strategic Alliance Information
  • Information we routinely publish about the force Making the Difference and Strategic Alliance change programmes
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  • Details of what we will publish and when, 2011-2015
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/ None / As specified

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