Collaboration
West Mercia Police has established formal arrangements for collaborative working with the three other police forces within the West Midlands Region (Staffordshire, Warwickshire and West Midlands). The Regional Collaboration Statement of Purpose sets out the principles which provide an agreed framework within which to pursue collaborative opportunities.
Examples of regional collaboration include:
- The Regional Task Force (comprising the Regional Asset Recovery Team and the Regional Intelligence Unit) provides a partnership approach to tackle serious and organised crime across the West Midlands Region
- Central Motorway Police Group - a three force policing service made up of 140 police officers and 29 support staff responsible for patrolling the motorways of the West Midlands, West Mercia and Staffordshire force areas
- Our police helicopter, based at Wolverhampton airport, Stourbridge, is shared with Staffordshire Police
- The Regional Protective Services Group comprises Assistant Chief Constables from the West Mercia, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and West Midlands forces and senior representatives from HM Revenue and Customs and SOCA (Serious Organised Crime Agency)
- Business continuity arrangements are in place within our region in respect of Fingerprints, High Tech Crime Unit, Photographic and Scenes of Crime
- West Mercia is leading the West Midlands regional collaboration for forensic services
- 48 of West Mercia’s 75 main contracts are collaborative arrangements using regional or national agreements. During 2009/10, we will be working on a further 22 areas of collaborative procurement.
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