Delivering Quality Policing Nov 2025

Our mission as a police service is simple: to Deliver Quality Policing.

In a changing operational environment, this means focusing on what truly matters to our communities - keeping people safe, responding visibly and effectively, and supporting victims with professionalism and care.

Following a strategic review of performance data, crime trends, and operational feedback, we have refined our priorities to ensure they remain realistic, relevant, and community-focused. While longer-term ambitions such as tackling organised criminal groups may develop in future phases, our immediate focus must reflect the issues affecting Hampshire today.

This vision will remain in effect until our first formal community consultation phase begins.

Our Mission

To ensure Hampshire remains one of the safest, most resilient, and most confident counties in the United Kingdom — through visible policing, proactive disruption of offenders, and unwavering support for victims.

⚫ 1. Relentless Disruption of Crime

Prevent. Pursue. Protect.

Goal:

To relentlessly disrupt criminal activity across Hampshire by focusing on those who cause the most harm and ensuring swift, effective intervention wherever crime occurs.

Our Focus:

The Force will:

• Target individuals and groups whose behaviour brings significant harm to our communities.

• Maintain an intelligence-led, proactive policing approach to prevent offences before they occur.

• Work collaboratively with local authorities, safeguarding partners, and community agencies to identify and reduce threats, risks, and harm.

• Ensure offenders face clear and consistent consequences for their actions, reinforcing community confidence in policing.

🔵 2. Visible Policing

Seen, trusted, and connected in every community.

Goal:

To deliver a highly visible and locally engaged police presence, ensuring every community feels supported, protected, and confident in its local officers.

Our Focus:

The Force will:

• Maintain a dedicated Local Bobby (Dedicated Neighbourhood Officer) for every area within each district.

• Support Local Bobbies through Neighbourhood Policing Teams, Neighbourhood Enforcement Teams, District Policing Teams (Response), Missing Locate Teams, Priority Crime Teams, local investigation units, and specialist functions covering serious violence, child abuse, and organised crime.

• Increase public interaction through community patrols, beat surgeries, engagement events, and open communication.

• Strengthen local partnerships to tackle the issues that matter most to residents.

• Enhance accessibility through digital contact options, operational front counters, and regular neighbourhood updates.

Local Bobbies will be highly visible, approachable, and deeply connected to their communities — listening to residents’ concerns, identifying local threats and risks, and helping address root causes of crime.

🟢 3. Putting Victims First

Listen. Support. Deliver justice.

Goal:

To provide every victim with a professional, compassionate, and transparent service, ensuring their voice is heard and their case is handled with care and commitment.

Our Focus:

The Force will:

• Deliver timely and effective investigations, placing victims at the heart of all decision-making.

• Keep victims informed from the first report to the conclusion of their case, ensuring they have clear, regular communication and a dedicated point of contact.

• Work with partner agencies to provide holistic support — including mental health services, safeguarding support, and victim care programmes — helping victims recover and rebuild.

• Promote professionalism, empathy, and fairness in every interaction with the public.

⚖️ Summary

Delivering Quality Policing means:

• Relentlessly disrupting crime

• Providing visible, trusted local policing

• Putting victims first in everything we do

Together, through community trust and shared commitment, we will continue to keep Hampshire safe and confident.

Join Us

Want to help us deliver this vision?
Visit our Vacancies page to see current opportunities. Only with the support, trust, and involvement of the community can we truly Deliver Quality Policing.

Page last updated on 21 November 2025