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Questions relating to PCSO's in the following areas;

• Bridport (including Beaminster and Lyme Regis)
• Dorchester/ Sherborne
• Weymouth/ Portland
• Dorset Police as a whole

Please could you tell me;

(a) How many PCSO's there are?
(b) How much they cost in wages?
(c) How many crimes they have detected?

In your force, how many officers were on;

a) Restrictive duties
b) Recuperative duties

As at 31 March 2010, 31 March 2009, 31 March 2005 and 31 March 2000.

I would like to obtain information on the use of bicycles within the police force. How many bicycles are used in your force and how many police officers are trained to use bicycles as part of their daily duties?

A copy of the stress audit that your officers undertake on a voluntary basis.

The most recent Stress Audit results (Anonymised if need be).

A percentage of the number of police officers that actually completed the stress audit.

1. How many officers were on restricted and recuperative duties as at 31^st December 2010?

2. How many police officers on restricted and recuperative duties on 31^st December 2010 are working for less than their normal contracted hours?

3. How many of these officers are working for four hours or less per day?

1. How many staff at Dorset Police are entitled to work (a) full-time as trade union representatives and (b) part-time on trade union activities?

2. How many such staff are paid more than £25,900 per annum?

3. What was the cost to the public purse of employing such staff in (a) 2009/10 and (b) 2010/11?

I wish to make a Freedom of Information Act request concerning those police officers paid for byyour force who are working fulltime for, on on secondment to, the Police Federation whether local or national.

Please may I request the following information for each such officer:

1. Their salary. Please note that I am not requesting personal information and would be prepared to accept a salary band.

2. The amount of time (in months and years) that the officer has been working fulltime for the Police Federation.

3. A total of all expenses claimed by the officer for the past financial year.

1. How many officers are deployed within the dog section?

2. What are the ranks of those officers?

3. Do the supervisory and management ranks within the dog section i.e. Sgt & Insp currently work dogs i.e. do they have an animal allocated to them for deployment?

4. If so please state the use of the dogs deployed with supervisors i.e. GPD, drugs, firearms detection etc

5. How many dogs are deployed in total within the dog section?

6. What specialisms and how many dogs are deployed to each specialism?  

7. What types i.e. Makes and models of vehicles are used within the section?

1. The total amount of money paid to all trade unions for financial periods a) 2009-10 and b) 2010-11 broken down by trade union.

2. For each trade union for which it applies, please provide the number of Full Time Equivalent (FTE) staff working for the union (this is sometimes called ‘Trade Union facility time’) in a) 2009-10 and b) 2010-11

1. Whether your force had a female Chief Constable, Deputy Chief Constable or any female Assistant Chief Constables in 2007 and 2008

2.Whether your force had an ethnic minority Chief Constable, Deputy Chief Constable or any ethnic minority Assistant Chief Constables in 2007 and 2008.

1. The contact details (including email address) of the head of your Procurement Team;
2. The contact details (including email address) of the head of Health & Safety (person in charge of worker safety at the Council).
3. The contact details (including email address) of the head of Stores (looking after employee clothing and equipment).

1. Does your Force follow the Talent Management or similar concept?
2. In relation to your Force, what does it define as Talent Management?
3. Does this involve all members of your Force’s staff?
4. What have been the benefits?
5. What have been the drawbacks or difficulties?
6. How has the talent management strategy changed in light of the financial constraints affecting your Force?

Please provide copies of any talent management strategies or policies relating to the above.

1. How many police officers in your authority retired in  (a) 2010/2011  (b) 2009/10  (c) 2008/9? 

2. How many of the police officers in your authority who were promoted (including temporary promotion) in (a) 2010/11, (b) 2009/10, (c) 2008/9, had 28 or more years of pensionable service?

3. How many (a) active members; (b) deferred members and (c) pensioners; did you have in your police officer pension schemes (including both the Police Pension Scheme and the New Police Pension Scheme) in (a) 2010/2011; (b) 2009/10; and (c) 2008/9?

4. How many pensioners on the Police Pension Scheme ceased (through becoming deceased or otherwise) being on the pension scheme in  (a) 2010/2011  (b) 2009/10  (c) 2008/9? 

5. What was the average age of retirement for police officers in your authority in  (a) 2010/2011  (b) 2009/10  (c) 2008/9?

6. How many civilians employed in 2010/11 were retired officers (from yours or any other force in the UK)?

7. In 2010/11 what was your total expenditure on pension? 7(a) what proportion of the pension scheme contributions in your authority was made up for by  (a) employer contributions?  (b) employee contributions?  (c) Home Office top-up?  (d) any other source?

8. Please provide the number of retired officers who receive the capped pension pay-out allowance of £123,600/year as per regulation G1(1A) of the Police Pensions Regulations 1987 and if any pension pay-out exceeded this amount.

2012

Could you please tell me how many Police Officers, whilst on duty, were the victim of a stabbing incident in 2011, whether or not injury was inflicted.

By Police Officer, I mean holder of the Office of Constable of any rank i.e. Special Constable, Police Constable, Police Sergeant etc.

By Stabbing Incident, I mean where any person attempted to slash/stab an officer with a knife or similar article i.e. scissors, needle etc.

How many of your constabulary’s AFO's have been placed on Unsatisfactory Performance (UPP) for failing firearms requalification shoots over a 2 year period.

When an injury pension is first granted (under Article 11 of the Police (Injury Benefit) Regulations 2006), or when an injury pension is reviewed (under Article 37-(1) of the Police (Injury Benefit) Regulations 2006) a Selected Medical Practitioner (SMP) is required to decide the degree of disablement, or any alteration in degree of disablement, as appropriate.

The Regulations do not set out the method the SMP should use. However, the Home Office provided guidance in Part 5 of Guidance on Medical Appeals under the Police Pensions Regulations 1987 And the Police (Injury Benefit) Regulations 2006.

That guidance states, in Paragraph 9, 'The Regulations do not set out a specified procedure for assessing the degree of a person's disablement. The Administrative Court has, however, commented that the task in assessing earning capacity is to assess what the person is Capable of doing and thus capable of earning. It is not a labour market assessment of whether somebody would actually pay that person to do what he or she is capable of doing, whether or not in competition with other workers. What follows here is the procedure suggested by the Home Office. This has no binding authority but it is the procedure which has been followed in most forces and by boards over recent years.'

I am requesting any documents that record whether or not your force SMP has at any time followed the procedure that is set out in the guidance.

If there are multiple documents, then, in order to keep this request as simple as possible, you may provide a list allowing ready identification of those documents together with a 'Yes' or 'No' answer to the question, 'Did your force SMP at any time follow the procedure set out in the Home Office Guidance On Medical Appeals Under The Police Pensions Regulations 1987 And The Police (Injury Benefit) Regulations 2006?' If the answer is yes, or if you provide a document or documents that indicate the answer would be yes, then will you also inform me when this procedure was first brought into operation.

1. The number of volunteers currently used by your force.

2. The nature of the roles volunteers are fulfilling.

3. Have any of these roles previously been carried out by Police Staff or Police Officers.

4. The gender breakdown of the volunteers in those roles

5. The age of the volunteers in those roles

1. I would like to know whether your police authority has established a Community Safety Accreditation Scheme (CSAS)?

2. If not, do you plan to establish such a scheme in the near future?

3. If your force has established a CSAS, I would like to know -

(a) How many 'Accredited Persons' have been granted powers under your Community Safety Accreditation Scheme (CSAS)?

(b) How many organisations are in your force’s CSAS? Please give details of these organisations (their name; and whether they are a public or private company).

(c) Please provide details of the powers the Accredited Persons have been granted.

(d) Please provide details on how these Accredited Persons (AP) have used their powers. I would like statistics of any fixed penalty notices (FPN) or penalty notices for disorder (PND) issued by APs. If possible, I would also like information about other recorded incidents of the use of powers, such as alcohol confiscation.

1. In each district/ basic command unit (BCU) within the constabulary for financial year 2010-2011 and financial year 2011-2012 please provide :

• The number of Police Community Support Officers employed
• The number of Full Time police officers employed
• The number of Full Time special police officers employed

2. In each district/ basic command unit (BCU) within the constabulary for financial year 2010-2011 and financial year 2011-2012 please provide:

• The number of police stations
• The number of police vehicles

3. The total budget for each district/ basic command unit (BCU) in the constabulary for financial year 2010-2011 and financial year 2011-2012.

4. Based on the constabulary’s strategic assessment what is the population of each district/ basic command unit?

1. Please can you supply me with details of the pay packages received by the force’s ACPO officers over the last three years?

2. For each officer of ACPO rank can you tell me how much he or she was paid and whether they claimed a bonus payment in 2009/10, 2010/11 and 2011/12?

1. Could you please supply me with your current force ‘Response’ vehicle crewing policy.

2. Could you please supply me with a copy of all the current Police Response Team shift patterns existent in your force area.

3. (a) The total number of Emergency (E) grade calls made to your force in the period 01/01/2011 until 31/12/2011 broken down by Basic Command Unit (BCU) and hour of receipt (i.e. between 01:00 – 02:00; 02:00 – 03:00 etc).

(b) The total number of Priority (P) grade calls made to your force in the period 01/01/2011 until 31/12/2011 broken down by Basic Command Unit (BCU) and hour of receipt (i.e. between 01:00 – 02:00; 02:00 – 03:00 etc).

(c) Your forces target response times or service level agreements (SLA) for these types of call.

4. (a) The Total number of Officer’s currently employed solely or predominantly on Response duties on each of your force’s Basic Command Units (BCU) 　

(b) The number of teams into which these Officers are divided

(c) Your policy on the minimum number of officers on duty at any given time on each BCU

(d)  Where this varies by hour of the day, details of the policy on minimum numbers of officers on duty at any given time of the day at each BCU.

I would like to know the number of officers who have received Level 2 riot training in the last 24 months, broken down by each month, i.e. from May 2010 to May 2012 with a figure for each month.

If it is possible within the cost limit, I would also like to know who many of these officers were receiving the training for the first time.

I would like to request details of the numbers of serving police officers who have failed a counter-terrorist check (CTC) since the checks were introduced.

In each case please list the following:

a) the rank of the officer
b) the year of the CTC check
c) a very short description of why he failed the check (e.g. believed to have attended terrorist training camp)
d) what the outcome was of failing to pass the CTC (e.g. was the officer dismissed, did he resign, did he keep his job, did it go to a tribunal
e) if it went to a tribunal did it result in an out of court settlement, or was compensation paid, and if so what was the amount of the settlement/compensation?

1. How many "accredited persons" have been given powers under your force’s Community Safety Accreditation Scheme (CSAS)?

2. What are the names of the organisations involved in your CSAS?

3. What powers have been granted under the scheme?

4. How many fixed penalty notices and penalty notices for disorder have been issued by accredited persons in each of the past three financial years, and in what categories?

With reference to police officers operating at schools, please detail the following for each school:

1. How many a) officers and b) PCSO’s are stationed on school grounds?

2. An estimate of the total number of hours per week.

3. A description of the purpose of the police presence.

4. The name of the school.

For the financial years 2010/11 and 2011/12 how many police officers have performed

a. no arrests
b. five arrests or fewer
c. more than 50 arrests
d. more than 100 arrests?"