Police Agency (Hansard, 17 July 2000)

§ Mr. Spellar

The following Key Targets have been set for the Ministry of Defence Police Agency:

Key Target 1(a)

CPS—submission of prosecution files In England and Wales to submit at least 80.5 per cent. of prosecution files to the CPS within the timescales set out in the Manual of Guidance

Key Target 1(b)

CPS—submission of prosecution files subject to Narey measures To maintain a submission rate to the CPS at least equal to the Home Department Police Force submission rate for Narey prosecution files.

Key Target 1(c) CPS—to produce a standardised MDP procedure for the administration of CPS files, thereby allowing quality assurance benchmaking against Home Department Forces in future years.

Key Target 1(d) Submission of 70 per cent. of all Scottish crime/prosecution files to the Procurator Fiscal within a maximum of eight weeks of the offence being reported.

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Key Target 2 To achieve a minimum of 50 per cent. patrol activity from those officers devoted to patrolling.

Key Target 3 To maintain or improve upon the target solving rate of 38 per cent. set for 199–2000 in the light of the average solving rate over the four year period 1 April 1996 to 31 March 2000.

Key Target 4 By the use of data produced by Key Target 7 of 1999–2000, to deploy uniformed and CID resources more effectively so as to achieve an efficiency saving of 3 per cent. on travel and subsistence costs of CID officers when investigating crime.

Key Target 5 By 31 March 2001 to rial and prove the Efficiency Index devised under KT5 of 1999–2000 in respect of the business areas of Firearms, Marine Policing and Dog Handling with a view to its introduction across the Force for April 2001.

Key Target 6 To achieve 2 per cent. ethnic minorities and 15 per cent. of women recruited to the Force during 2000–2001; and to take steps to make possible 3 per cent. and 20 per cent. respectively in 2001–02.