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Hello. Tonight, an Inside Out special from the control room at | :00:05. | :00:07. | |
Derbyshire police headquarters. A shrinking workforce, police | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
stations closing and a black hole in the budget. We've asked former | :00:10. | :00:18. | |
Head of Crime, Tony Blockley, to investigate. What is morale like in | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
Nottinghamshire? We feel like we are getting a kicking from all | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
corners. The level of cuts we are facing in Nottinghamshire, it | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
threatens our services in the way it doesn't elsewhere. | :00:29. | :00:38. | |
And can computers replace coppers? Are you available for a shoplifter? | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
I get a close-up view of the new technology that's keeping police in | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
the picture. This is a fantastic arresting tool. People are getting | :00:51. | :01:01. | |
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arrested on a daily basis as a result of having this technology. | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
The police are facing their biggest financial challenge in a generation. | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
Budgets are being cut by 20% over four years in a drastic plan aimed | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
at saving millions. So, a year into those cuts, how are our forces | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
coping? In a moment I'll be speaking to Derbyshire's Chief | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
Constable, Mick Creedon. But first, his former Head of Crime, Tony | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
Blockley, investigates the impact on frontline policing in the East | :01:30. | :01:40. | |
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It's one of the toughest jobs there is. Enforcing law and order on our | :01:43. | :01:50. | |
streets. And keeping the public safe. I know because for 30 years I | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
did it in Derbyshire. I've been a police constable working with the | :01:53. | :02:03. | |
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community. A detective solving murders. And finally before | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
retiring, I was Head of Crime at the force. There's a minicab in the | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
middle of the road and it looks like there's a body dumped in the | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
back. There's lots of blood. Oh, my God. There's a man, he's in the | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
boot, the whole of the back window is smashed in and there's a body in | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
the back of it. Stuart Ludlum was married with three children. They | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
found him here, adjacent to these two white cars in his taxi and his | :02:27. | :02:35. | |
taxi was in the middle of the road. The first is from his children. It | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
says, "To the best dad in the world, love you millions and billions". | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
took nine months to convict Colin Cheetham of his murder. It was the | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
last case I worked on before retiring. At its peak there were | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
over 100 officers working round the clock. But things have changed | :02:51. | :03:00. | |
since then. The money's dried up. Policing is facing huge financial | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
challenges because of budget cuts. It means perhaps reducing staff | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
numbers. How will that affect our ability to fight crime? And what do | :03:06. | :03:13. | |
people think about what's happening? Do they even know? | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
have there's a policeman walking down here and you have got some | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
thug going to beat an old Lady, they will think twice if there is a | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
copper round. If he sees nothing, he will do what he likes. The other | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
evening because of a disturbance, it took the police about an hour to | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
get there. It is a sign of the times. All down to the cutbacks. I | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
Over the next five years Nottinghamshire has to save at | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
least �42 million, Derbyshire �24 million and Leicestershire �28 | :03:50. | :04:00. | |
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million. How are they going to do it? For a start, they will have to | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
work together. Five suspicious deaths over a space | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
of just six days. But these weren't all in Derbyshire. And how the | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
police went about solving them was very different to when I was in the | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
force. $NEWLINE It was 16th October on a Sunday morning that I got a | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
call to come into work but then I was told I was coming to Derby and | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
not my usual station in Nottingham. Now it's not just waiting for a | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
murder to happen in Nottingham. We could go at eight in the morning to | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
my station and it could be, "All right, Donna, you're going to | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
Northamptonshire today, there's Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire's | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
homicide units have now merged with Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and | :04:43. | :04:51. | |
Northamptonshire in order to save money. One of the benefits is every | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
time I have an officer from one force to another, it means a local | :04:55. | :05:04. | |
detective or a local cop is working on other work, ie. They're dealing | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
with a local burglar, or anti- social behaviour, they're not drawn | :05:07. | :05:16. | |
onto a homicide enquiry for several months. Is it working? I cannot | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
give the facts and figures but what other projects as it allowed to | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
happen? Bear in mind this is just one. There out of the project were | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
forces are looking to work together in partnership and collectively we | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
will save money individually and as a region. | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
Between March this year and March 2015 it's estimated that | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
collaboration will save Derbyshire �10.7 million, Nottinghamshire, | :05:36. | :05:43. | |
�9.5 million and Leicestershire �5.7 million. | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
I think that sends a real positive message, it's positive in the way | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
it's working, it's positive in what it's achieving, it's saving money, | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
it's giving the public a better service, it's releasing officers | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
back, or not taking officers away and I think overall it's got a real | :05:55. | :06:05. | |
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But I wonder what's happening in Nottinghamshire. Because it's | :06:06. | :06:14. | |
having to make the biggest savings It's been three weeks since this | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
police station in Sherwood was closed to save money. Not | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
everyone's aware that it's gone. pressed the bell and obviously no- | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
one came. I didn't realise that it had even closed. Nobody informed us | :06:27. | :06:37. | |
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at all. Luckily a volunteer is on hand to take the details. | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
I see the crime figures. I'm a police vetted volunteer, I see the | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
crime figures for the entire county and Sherwood has been the safest | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
place to be in the city of Nottingham for the last few years, | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
thanks mainly to Ivan's efforts and the committee and the people | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
involved and that has changed in the last two weeks. It seems to be | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
that the word's going out that it's a soft touch but I can assure you | :06:58. | :07:08. | |
it's not. We have had thousands of pounds go from the bank. Two behind | :07:08. | :07:15. | |
the shop and we have worked so hard to get graffiti taken out of show, | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
Sherwood's lucky to have such a strong Neighbourhood Watch. But | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
it's station is not the only one to close. It's one of 12 to go like | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
this one in Kimberley. So, Chris, how many incidents were reported at | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
Kimberley police station? Last year, 16. In total? In total in the year. | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
16 times when a member of the public came in and reported | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
incidents to us in the police station here. It's less than two a | :07:42. | :07:52. | |
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month. Yes, that is right. Can we afford to keep police stations like | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
this working when we can provide an alternative in the local area for | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
neighbourhood officers and beat officers to work from and make | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
significant savings? The community support officers that were based at | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
Kimberley are moving up the road to Ikea. So this is the new station | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
for you?" This will be the new station, we'll have badges on the | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
wall there obviously we'll have placards with our pictures and our | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
contact details. And the people in Awesworth and Cossal, those | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
communities that you serve, have they made any comment about the | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
Kimberley police station shutting? I had a parish council meeting with | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
them and we have a contact point in Awesworth where we have beat | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
surgeries. We'll spend an hour in there where the community knows | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
we're going to be there as well. We've got one up at Giltbrook, the | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
parish hall up there. We go and sit in there and have little beat | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
surgeries where people come and contact us as well. People don't | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
want to get that we're going to be stuck on Giltbrook retail park | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
because we're not. $WHITE They're sure that closing | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
Kimberley won't affect their policing. But station closures is | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
not the only way Nottinghamshire's Two years ago Nottingham was laid | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
siege by the English Defence League and Unite Against Fascism. | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
Thousands of rival supporters were also in town to see Forest at home | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
to Leicester City. And The Mercian Regiment were being given the | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
freedom of the city. All this on one of the busiest Christmas | :09:21. | :09:29. | |
shopping days of the year. Greg Drozdowski was the bronze commander. | :09:29. | :09:37. | |
His job was to brief officers on how to police it. Two years on and | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
it's a different story. He's been forced to retire under what's | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
called Regulation A19. It's one of the tools Nottinghamshire's using | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
to reduce the number of police officers it employs. But it's | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
proving controversial. I'm only one of dozens of officers that have | :09:51. | :10:01. | |
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been forced to retire under A19. We were supposedly at the top of our | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
game. Our appraisals were all good and we were performing well, no | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
issues with any of us but despite that, we are still forced to retire | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
under A19. After 30 years, you were forced out? But obviously you've | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
got a lot of skills and experience that go with you. Isn't that passed | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
on to anybody? No, and that's the sad thing really, There's a huge | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
depth of knowledge there that's going and you don't get that | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
overnight, so yes there are other officers that can be brought into | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
that role but there was no overlap in terms of mentoring or training | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
these individuals it was a case of you're going on that date and | :10:34. | :10:44. | |
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someone else will be slipping into $WHITE So what would be your | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
greatest fear now? I think really that whether it was a firearms | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
incident, public order or serious crime, that the force may not have | :10:52. | :11:02. | |
some key individuals in place with Greg's one of hundreds of officers | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
to go from Nottinghamshire. But the force is still committed to | :11:07. | :11:15. | |
reducing crime by 24%. What's moral like in Nottinghamshire now?" | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
pretty low, it's as low as I've ever seen it. In fact nationally | :11:18. | :11:25. | |
it's at rock bottom. Nottinghamshire Police said they | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
will cut crime by 24%. Do you think that is achievable? I would like to | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
think so but I don't believe it will be, no, not when you are | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
cutting numbers out of the force because where is all the work going | :11:38. | :11:45. | |
to go? One in five cops come from where we were only a few years ago. | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
And if we did not think we had enough for me had 2,500, how the | :11:50. | :12:00. | |
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hell are we going to cope if we have 1950? The Police Federation is | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
challenging every one of the A19 orders being made against its | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
officers. If they win, it will cost the force dearly. What about the | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
skills that they take away with them and that Nottinghamshire loses, | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
how are they replaced? It is a hit, we are losing some phenomenally | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
talented people that you and I have both worked with that we know and | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
respect that in a million lifetimes you'd never want to leave from | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
policing. We couldn't balance the budget this year without using it. | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
It was as simple and as stark as that. In addition to the �42.3 | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
million that we're having to cut there is another �12 million that | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
we should receive in government grants that isn't. So we fall short | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
in addition by �12 million of what we should receive in grant from the | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
government as well. The level of cuts we are facing in | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
Nottinghamshire is such that it threatens frontline services in a | :12:43. | :12:50. | |
way that doesn't elsewhere. It is clear that Nottinghamshire is | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
facing harder cuts than Derbyshire. In cutting and delivering a | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
service... We have seen a lot of things that they do, closing police | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
stations to save money. We've shown reduction in officer numbers in an | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
appropriate way to save money. We've seen a lot of technology | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
being used. And we've talked and heard about some of the | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
collaboration projects. The question I would ask is are there | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
more aspects of collaboration that they could become involved in. Have | :13:15. | :13:25. | |
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Chief Constable, we heard your former head of crime there talking | :13:26. | :13:34. | |
favourably about the idea of collaboration. We know that there | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
are units working together. Isn't there now a stronger case than ever | :13:39. | :13:46. | |
before to merge all five forces in the East Midlands? There is a | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
difference between collaboration and merger. Merging is different | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
from collaboration because the needs of the people of Nottingham | :13:57. | :14:04. | |
are different from those in other towns. Bringing together systems | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
would have a consequence of a long- term timescale to get the money | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
back inefficiencies and the Government are not keen. | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
It was looked at in 2005 and dismissed but times have changed, | :14:16. | :14:24. | |
don't drastic times call for drastic measures? I know you say it | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
costs money but this is the situation we are a in. | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
organisation has talked about it and there may be a debate about | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
moves in the future where we have to merge. The recognition is that | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
if you go for mergers, it would take a lot of money, it will take a | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
lot of time to pay back. We are not sure the public wants it in that | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
sense. If a merger means keeping officers | :14:47. | :14:55. | |
on the frontline maybe that's a price worth paying. It is if it is | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
paid for and the delay in getting it is worth the payback will stop | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
is it not true to say that the biggest obstacle is the Chief | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
Constables themselves? Far from it, people talk about that and turkeys | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
and Christmas. I would only ever want to do the right thing in terms | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
of policing the East Midlands. By have worked all my life here and in | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
it is the right case, I would be absolutely in favour of it but I am | :15:20. | :15:27. | |
of the view to please as many people as we can. We are only one | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
year into this process of four years of cuts, isn't it the case | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
that the easiest will have been made and they will get harder and | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
that will have an impact on your ability to fight crime? It is | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
absolutely true, it will get harder and harder. This room is an | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
investment but it is saving us a lot of money. We are making | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
efficiencies and this is saving money already. We know what our | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
savings plan is, we made a lot of savings in year one, but the | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
economy is having a difficult time and there is a risk that years | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
three and four will be even higher. Can you even deliver with cutting | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
budgets? We are seeing cuts in crime year on year. It is down | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
about 6.5% now. It will get more difficult. I don't think the case | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
is absolutely that the size of your workforce and the size of your | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
police is the reason why crime is up and down. It is a factor among | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
many. There are different types of crime, globalised in economies as | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
well. People watching this will want to know what the impact of | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
these cuts will be on them. When they hear about police force is | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
shrinking, they are concerned. and we have been very public about | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
that. We do not deny that. The over the course of this current savings | :16:47. | :16:57. | |
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plans, we have lost something like 400 posts. It is a big hit. 10% of | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
our workforce has gone and you cannot pretend that taking out 10% | :17:02. | :17:12. | |
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of any business will not have an Out the Government is keen on | :17:23. | :17:31. | |
keeping police numbers on the Falls and I am finding out how it works. | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
It's the start of the shift for PCs Jase Davis and Leigh Glover and | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
already someone's dialled 999. As they race across Leicester their in | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
car computer warns them someone who's lived at the address has a | :17:41. | :17:48. | |
history of violence. So it's no surprise when there's an arrest. As | :17:48. | :17:56. | |
the suspect's loaded into the car he lashes out and then this happens. | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
An emergency like this used to rely on good old fashioned radio | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
messages passed backward and forwards between the control room | :18:01. | :18:11. | |
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and police in the field. Are you available for a shoplifter? But now | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
radio's only part of the story - Leicestershire is leading the way, | :18:17. | :18:27. | |
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We will get cracking. The usual thing about yesterday... At Euston | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
Street police station the afternoon shift is being briefed on their | :18:30. | :18:39. | |
priorities for the day. Make sure you look out for the sporty types | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
of vehicles in those areas. Particularly in areas where they | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
have been hit for burglaries. Thank Fast response officer PC Jase Davis | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
and PC Leigh Glover will spend the next seven hours patrolling | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
Leicester city centre and thanks to something called a mobile data | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
terminal they won't need return to the police station. All the | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
information they've just heard is available in their car. And as long | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
as they've got a signal all their paperwork can be completed out on | :19:06. | :19:16. | |
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the road too. The biggest thing for us this gives us a full desktop | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
suite of information. We can access it all in the car, did our e-mails | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
and all the thing we have to service on the desktop from the | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
vehicle. That gives us an increased visibility and accessibility from | :19:30. | :19:37. | |
two officers to members of the public. Police technology has come | :19:37. | :19:46. | |
on a bit since the days of Dixon of Dock green. A mugging, can you | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
deal? And practically elsewhere. call came from the ambulance | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
service, over and out. Throughout police history the only way the | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
control rooms knew where their patrols were was when they checked | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
in by radio or phone. Today when control sends a message they know | :20:01. | :20:11. | |
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exactly where everyone is. An 11- Romeo 18, do you want us to divert? | :20:20. | :20:30. | |
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As Jase and Leigh head across town back in the control room their car | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
is being tracked. It's a system called IR3 and it's revolutionised | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
the way the force is deployed. Superintendent Jez Cottrill gave me | :20:42. | :20:52. | |
a Google Earth-style demonstration. That is the statue of Liberty but I | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
can put a call sign on to an assistant, and there is a | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
Leicestershire Police van. It is aimed over Britain, it is going | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
down on to East Park Road, Leicester, and I can see that | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
vehicle is actually in the Rea station of the car park. Very | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
impressive but how does it help the people in the control room? | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
enables us to choose the most local resource to go to an incident. A | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
member of public rings up and we need to get the results there quick. | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
We do not have to go through a long debate of where our units are, we | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
distance and the click a button and they are there, can deploy them | :21:30. | :21:40. | |
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efficient live. 40 vehicles. That is the number they have been able | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
to cut their fleet by because of deficiencies. | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
And 11-year-old has had his foot and needs a trip in an ambulance. | :21:50. | :21:59. | |
It could have been much worse. Out on patrol again, Jason spots a | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
suspicious car. We have had observations put out on our breeze | :22:04. | :22:11. | |
that had been involved something. It is a black Audi. The in-car | :22:11. | :22:18. | |
mobile data terminal has instant access to every vehicle database | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
including VOSA. With no driver in sight Jase and Leigh decide to | :22:23. | :22:31. | |
leave an alert on the system. the moment there is a White added... | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
When the car next passes a CCTV camera automatic number plate | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
recognition will kick in and a patrol car can stop the Audi to | :22:37. | :22:45. | |
At Market Harborough Marion Lewis from Neighbourhood watch is running | :22:45. | :22:53. | |
a stall of crime prevention gadgets and gizmos. It turns out the new | :22:53. | :23:02. | |
police software is proving useful in rural Leicestershire too. Police | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
Federation have the technology that the police are using. - Mike | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
Neighbourhood Watch have the technology. How quickly can you get | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
a message out there? Sake, there has been a burglary. Within about | :23:14. | :23:24. | |
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five minutes. We had a village post of office... We had then somebody | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
e-mail as saying they had somebody asking suspicious questions which | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
enabled us to track progress to a particular van travelling through | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
the district and we ended up catching them in Northamptonshire | :23:37. | :23:44. | |
across the border. The goods had been stolen but we tracked them | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
across the district. Planning -- an extremely good way of showing how | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
the system works. Marion's members are worried about | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
anti -social behaviour, vandalism, thefts from cars it's not the sort | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
of crime that grabs headlines and victims often complain they're not | :23:55. | :24:05. | |
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a police priority. Good morning, I am Inspector Tony Price... Today | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
two of the Leicestershire neighbourhood watch team have | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
dropped into police headquarters to hear how they're trying to tackle | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
that sort of crime the icons on the map all show crime trouble spots. | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
way marker is like a boundary on a map and a perimeter or an we can | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
use a GPS sauce, in our case police vehicles up outside or insider that | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
boundary. Police officers in the field are | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
set targets to regularly visit the Way markers at key times rather | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
than head back to the comfort of the police station. I can hover | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
over the map and it will tell me in the last day, we have had 10 | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
officers in that area and they have spent 10 hours. Very impressed that | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
we can see exactly where the police cars and constables and the | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
officers are at any time of the day. They are out there doing what we | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
expect them to be doing. My own opinion is that this computer we | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
are using now, and the others, they are fabulous. They reduce the | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
amount of paperwork put in front of a police officer. Their shift's | :25:15. | :25:24. | |
almost over but Jase and Leigh have another assignment. Are you | :25:24. | :25:32. | |
available for a shoplifter? I have got the screen up, what is the | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
The teenager caught holding the goods is only 15. The computer | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
reveals he was arrested yesterday too for the same offence. And his | :25:42. | :25:52. | |
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photo's on the system. This is the main custody suite. This is where | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
the prisoners are first brought to. I have come to Euston Street police | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
station to see how that got there. ID officer Andy Ramsay explains how | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
everyone arrested is fingerprinted and photographed in the custody | :26:08. | :26:16. | |
Keep your face still and that is it, that is your photograph actually | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
taken. Let us have a look. Me in my criminal state, not my best | :26:22. | :26:30. | |
photograph! If we wanted to, we could find you. What's changed | :26:30. | :26:37. | |
though is what happens to my photo next. This is the business end of | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
what the machine does. I will do a search for who has been arrested in | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
Euston Street since yesterday. This is not immediately accessible to | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
all prison officers out on the street. This is another one of the | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
major things about this machinery, it is contemporary, up-to-date. 30 | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
years ago as a police officer, you could only dream of something like | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
this. It is so good to have a face in front of you. No doubt, people | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
are getting arrested on a daily basis in the region as a direct | :27:08. | :27:15. | |
result of having this technology. Other regions are looking to follow | :27:15. | :27:21. | |
the lead of Latasha now. �4.2 million has been saved so far as a | :27:21. | :27:27. | |
result of this technology but it still has to cut �20 million over | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
four years. Police constables like these two are part of a much | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
smaller force so can tell -- can technology really bridge the gap? | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
We are aware that numbers have dropped and there are few officer | :27:40. | :27:48. | |
than normal. Technology can make your job easier and quicker but it | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
will never replace the amount of police vehicles we have got, or | :27:52. | :27:58. | |
police officers. What it has done is make the job easier with the | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
numbers we have got available and it is still at enabling us to do a | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
job and to give the public that reassurance that we will still turn | :28:06. | :28:16. | |
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up and work for them when they ring 999. | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
I'm reliably informed that that photograph of me has now been | :28:21. | :28:23. | |
permanently deleted from the police database. Our thanks to | :28:23. | :28:25. | |
Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire Police for shedding some | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
light on how the cuts are affecting them. See you next Monday. | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
Next week on the next Inside Out, grown men grooming children the | :28:31. | :28:37. |