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SPPF Supporting Information

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About SPPF

In Autumn 2005, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary for Scotland (HMICS) published a thematic inspection of performance management in the Scottish police service entitled, “Managing Improvement”. This identified the potential benefit of a fundamental review of existing performance indicators and targets and the processes for identifying these. The anticipated outcome was the establishment of a systematic approach to performance monitoring with an agreed set of objectives and performance measures.

About this time, ACPOS decided that a greater emphasis was required on performance management and established the ACPOS Performance Management Business Area (PMBA) which subsequently led on the work to produce such a framework.

SPPF Aims & Purpose

ACPOS worked with key partners on a strategic steering group to define what the envisaged performance framework should deliver. This can be summarised as developing a single suite of performance measures which reflect the breadth and variety of policing activity; creating a framework to help forces provide more effective policing; improving accountability to stakeholders through the publication of consistent and transparent performance information to assist their understanding of policing performance; and providing a basis for robust performance management and, in turn, performance improvement.

These aims are explained more fully in the current SPPF document for 2010/11.

Development of the Scottish Policing Performance Framework

The resulting framework is divided into the four areas of policing shown below, each of which contains High Level Objectives:

The High Level Objectives have been translated into specific measures which are identified in respect of Outcomes, Activities, Inputs and Context. Further detail  on these can be found in the current SPPF document for 2010/11.

It is recognised that national indicators of performance may not fully reflect all priorities at a local force level. Forces which align their own performance management mechanisms with the framework should be able to measure and report on both national and local priorities in a consistent and meaningful manner.

Further details on the SPPF can also be found at: www.scotland.gov.uk/policingperformance »