Improving police operational efficiencies and effectiveness
Putting warranted police officers back on the front line
The pressure on police forces created by reductions in funding is driving new thinking about how to maintain quality of service with reduced budgets. This pressure is challenging ideas around which functions warranted police officers need to deliver and those that can be undertaken by others to improve efficiency and effectiveness, enabling police officers to focus on higher priority activities.
Improved efficiency, exacting quality standards and the application of modern technology releases tangible operational benefits to police services. Working in partnership with the police, Reliance has already been able to demonstrate that our experience, focus and scale has enabled support services to be delivered in a professional manner at a lower cost.
We work with police forces to:
- Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their support areas
- Free officers for frontline duties
- Ensure core processes run more efficiently and at lower cost
- Ensure changes and innovation reduce the burden on operational police officers
- Reduce costs while maintaining or improving operations.
Reliance was the first private company to provide police custody assistants, with services commencing for West Mercia Police in 1999. We now employ 690 staff operating in 70 centres with over 470 cells across 13 forces. Our staff help process and look after over 230,000 detainees annually, including taking DNA samples and fingerprints, managing electronic ID parades, interpreters, bail management and forensic medical examinations.
We are the leading provider of PFI buildings for the police, and deliver a range of Estates and FM services within these buildings to ensure that police and the public have buildings that meet the needs of the force and the community.
We deliver services either individually or in packages that combine a range of services.