Police Authorities (Best Value) Performance Indicators Order 2002

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 2002/694
Year2002

2002 No. 694

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES

POLICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Police Authorities (Best Value) Performance Indicators Order 2002

Made 13th March 2002

Laid before Parliament 15th March 2002

Coming into force 1st April 2002

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 4(1)(a) of the Local Government Act 19991(having regard to the definition in section 1(1)(d)), and having consulted, in accordance with section 4(3) of that Act, persons appearing to him to represent police authorities and such other persons as he thought fit, hereby makes the following Order:

S-1 Citation and commencement

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Police Authorities (Best Value) Performance Indicators Order 2002 and shall come into force on 1st April 2002.

S-2 General corporate health performance indicators

General corporate health performance indicators

2. The performance of each police authority in England and Wales, in exercising their functions, can be measured by reference to the indicators in Schedule 1 to this Order.

S-3 Performance indicators for community safety

Performance indicators for community safety

3. The performance of each police authority in England and Wales, in exercising their functions, can be measured by reference to the indicators in Schedule 2 to this Order.

John Denham

Minister of State

Home Office

13th March 2002

SCHEDULE 1

Article 2

GENERAL CORPORATE HEALTH PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

Indicator Number

Description of indicator

1

Quality of service surveys showing—

(a) percentage of the public satisfied with the time taken to answer a 999 call from a member of the public,

(b) percentage of the public satisfied with the arrival time of an officer dealing with an immediate response incident,

(c) percentage of the public satisfied with police action in response to 999 calls,

(d) percentage of victims satisfied with police initial response to a report of violent crime,

(e) percentage of victims satisfied with police initial response to a report of burglary of a dwelling,

(f) percentage of victims of road traffic collisions satisfied with the police service at the scene of the collision, and

(g) percentage of victims of racist incidents satisfied with the police service when dealing with the incident.

2

Percentage of minority ethnic police officers in the force compared with the percentage of minority ethnic population of working age.

3

Percentage of police officers in operational posts.

4

Number of working days lost through sickness by (a) police officers and (b) civilian employees.

5

Number of medical retirements of (a) police officers as a percentage of total officer numbers and (b) civilian officers as a percentage of total civilian employees.

SCHEDULE 2

Article 3

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