Priorities

The key priorities are:

Sustain Norfolk Constabulary

• Maintaining an effective and efficient policing service
• Continue to invest in and support officer and all police staff’s health and well-being
• Equipping all the workforce with modern and innovative tools and technology
• Achieving best value from police and OPCC funding
• Delivering an effective Estate Management Strategy
• Designing policing services to 2030 and beyond
• Continued collaboration with other blue light services

Visible and Trusted Policing

• Improving public trust and confidence in policing
• Delivering effective neighbourhood policing
• Delivering accessibility through active and focused engagement in our communities
• Delivery of a responsive and modern first contact to calls for service
• Raise the profile and public awareness of the role of the PCC/OPCC
• Active promotion of national and local campaigns across the county

Tackling Crime

• Promote a co-ordinated county wide response to Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) to tackle high harm behaviours/criminality with a focus on domestic abuse, rape and serious sexual offences
• Being effective in tackling serious and organised crime (including fraud and cyber-crime affecting Norfolk)
• Delivering an effective response to the county lines threat affecting Norfolk’s communities and the vulnerable
• Work in partnership to tackle agricultural crimes (such as hare coursing, farm machinery theft and livestock worrying)

Prevent Offending

• Develop and deliver effective diversionary schemes for offenders (high harm and volume)
• Work in partnership to safeguard vulnerable adults and children
• Work in partnership to ensure offenders are managed effectively in the community
• Reduce the revolving door of crime by putting in place the support needed to reduce re-offending
• Strengthen early intervention and preventative approaches to crime in the county and reduce first time entrants into criminal justice

Support Victims

• Improving the provision of entitlements set out in the Victims’ Code of Practice
• Deliver high quality investigations to support the right outcomes for victims
• Work in partnership to commission effective services that support victims of high harm crime
• Implement and develop the Norfolk integrated Domestic Abuse Service (NiDAS) and review the provision of services for sexual violence victims
• Improving victim’s experience of the criminal justice system and raise confidence to report crimes
• Safeguarding vulnerable victims of crime and Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB)

Safer and Stronger Communities

• Supporting road users to be safer on our roads
• Working with partners and communities to prevent crime and harm
• Early identification and diversion to the appropriate agencies for those suffering with Mental Health issues
• Promote crime prevention initiatives
• Increasing volunteering opportunities within the community to help policing