OUR HISTORY
In 2017, South Yorkshire Police was awarded £6.35 million of funding from the Home Office to deliver a national problem solving and demand reduction partnership working initiative over three years.
The programme of work helped to transform ways of working across the police by embedding problem solving as a core discipline.
As well as working with fellow forces, we worked in partnership with a number of others to deliver best practice solutions, which have been shared locally, regionally and nationally.
THE PROGRAMME
THE KEY DELIVERABLES
THE WORK-STREAMS
THE TEAM
We achieved all of our key deliverables from the Problem Solving & Demand Reduction programme...
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1. Coordinate networking with supportive stakeholders
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2. Identify all the databases and information sources that contain evidence based approaches and make them more operationally accessible
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3. Reduce costs and effort by identifying effective tools and make them nationally available
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4. Identify organisational good practice in problem solving and make it nationally available (e.g. training)
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5. Develop a dynamic and operationally focused network of problem solving experts that include police and community safety practitioners
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6. Increase the profile of problem solving by highlighting best practice and generating a reward system
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7. Connect good practice in the UK with international good practice
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8. Assist forces to identify additional opportunities for demand reduction
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9. Identification of opportunities for partners to reduce demand on other partners
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10. Identify the need for governmental interventions e.g. A&E figures
THE VISION
“Create opportunities to reduce demand for police and partners by embedding a structured problem solving ethos and capability”
YOU CAN SEE THE PORTFOLIO OF PREVIOUS EVENTS FROM THE PROBLEM SOLVING & DEMAND REDUCTION PROGRAMME BELOW:
You can access all the PowerPoint presentations from our NPCC Workshops on our Knowledge Hub page.
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