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Force Control Strategy

Once a year, the Force carries out a Strategic Assessment from which the Control Strategy and Intelligence Requirement is set. The assessment is reviewed after six months to assess whether the priorities for tackling crime need to be amended and, where necessary, the control strategy is updated.

Control Strategy 2011/12

To cut crimes that are of most concern to the community

• Cut the level of violence against the person by 12% and the level of overall serious acquisitive crime (domestic burglary, robbery and vehicle crime) by 5%.
• Continue to improve the investigation and prosecution of offences as part of Project Morse and increase the detection rates for violence with injury to 42% and the overall detection rate for serious acquisitive crime to 15%.
• Work with rural and business communities, with our partners, to improve crime prevention.
• Reduce violence and serious sexual assaults associated with the night-time economy and make best use of new legislation.
• To focus on the needs of those most at risk from anti-social behaviour and provide an individual care plan for support and investigation.
• Maintain the detection rate for serious sexual offences above 25%.

Protect our communities from the most serious harm

• Focus on organised criminals who prey on communities where people feel more isolated.
• Strengthen our response to extreme terrorist threats and domestic extremism.
• Reduce local and national threats to the Olympics through effective preparation and planning with other Forces and partners.
• Increase the number of confiscation orders achieved by 5%.
• Monitor the Domestic Violence-related Violence against the Person with Injury detection rate compared to overall Violence against the Person with Injury detection rate.
• Monitor the value of confiscation orders.
• Monitor the disruption of OCGs.