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SPECIAL POLICE SUPPORT GROUP

CR_3/8/2801/77

Progress Report in Processing Consultative Documents -

Residual Matters

Advisers' recommendations

For report in January 1979

Action approved by SPSG:- in hand, outstanding or under review

Consultative Document No. 1 - PHQ Organisation

1. The duties of many staff officers should be

carefully studied to establish whether or not the work they are doing really requires the expertise of a senior superintendent or superintendent (para. 10).

A period of consolidation should now follow, with teams from the Management Services Dept. looking at all aspects of organisation and in particular the deployment and use of -man- power (para. 12).

3. Once agreement has been reached on the format of the HQ structure at senior officer levels, the ACP of the various departments and his senior staff officers should be directed to define the numbers and areas of responsibility of the police officers they require and the clerical support thought necessary (para. 13).

Consultative Document No. 6 Distribution of Force Establishment

1.

A Management Services team should look critically at the deployment of staff in order to increase ground coverage (paras. 3-6).

CP is examining this recommendation as an on-going commitment under Management Services Department. Report by CP in January 1979.

CP to report in January 1979.

CP to report in January 1979.

SPSG to review the consultative document, the PWG paper and the Divisional experiment in January 1979. CP to report in January 1979.

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All inspectors should spend a reasonable amount of time with a sub-unit, and should be allowed adequate handover time with their successors (para. 11).

CP to report to SPSG in January 1979 on results of the Review of continuity at Sub-Unit level. Increase in Training Reserve of 430 posts approved by FC.on 16th August

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