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Delivering Quality Policing April - Nov 2025

Force Vision - Delivering Quality Policing

Our mission as a police service is to Deliver Quality Policing. But what does this mean exactly?

Our mission is to ensure Hampshire remains one of the safest and most resilient places to live. By focusing on crime disruption, visible policing, and victim support, we are dedicated to providing high-quality policing services across our communities. Below are our three key priorities, each with a detailed focus on specific objectives to guide our efforts.

1. Relentlessly Disrupt Crime

Goal:
Target prolific and repeat offenders causing harm in our communities and lead intelligence-driven operations to dismantle serious and organised criminal groups.

Objectives:

The Force will:

Identify and target the most harmful offenders, disrupt their activities, and prevent further crimes. Collaboration with local partners like the courts, probation services, and enforcement agencies will be key in achieving this.
Lead and participate in regional and national operations to tackle serious and organised crime. Through intelligence-led operations and multi-agency cooperation, we aim to target criminal groups involved in drugs, weapons trafficking, and other organised criminal activities.
Expand proactive operations to combat violence, weapons offences, and the illegal drugs trade. This will include high-visibility operations and partnerships with national agencies to disrupt trafficking networks.

2. Visible Policing

Goal:
Increase the visibility of policing by recruiting 15 new police officers by the end of 2025 and delivering the "Local Bobby" model.

Objectives:

The Force will:

Recruit 15 additional police officers by 2025, strategically deploying them to areas where their presence will have the greatest impact.
Ensure operational front counters are available in each sector for both in-person and digital interactions. Communities will have easy access to law enforcement whenever they need it. To accomondate this, the Force will recruit Enquiry Officers.
Host regular beat surgeries and recruitment events to foster direct interaction between officers and residents. This will give residents the chance to voice concerns, ask for advice, and stay updated on local policing efforts.
Introduce a Local Bobby Model:
- The Local Bobby Model will comprise a named Local Bobby (Dedicated Neighbourhood Officer) who will be a neighbourhood policing officer that is dedicated to each area in a District.
- They will identify local threats, harm, and risks by engaging with the community to understand their concerns and priorities,investigate neighbourhood crimes and gather intelligence to target offenders, collaborate with partners such as local authorities to tackle the root causes of crime and maintain a visible presence in the community and act as a trusted point of contact for residents, ensuring they feel supported and heard.
- They will be supported by Neighbourhood Policing Teams, Neighbourhood Enforcement Teams, District Policing Teams (response officers), Missing Locate Teams, Priority Crime Teams, local investigation teams and specialist functions investigating serious violence, child abuse and organised crime.
- The Local bobby will be highly visible in the community, listening to resident's concerns and addressing root causes of crime.

3. Putting Victims First

Goal:
Ensure that every victim is supported through thorough investigations, clear communication, and holistic support.

Objectives:

The Force will:

Ensure every victim will receive timely and thorough investigations, with officers prioritising victim care. Officers will have the necessary resources to provide the best possible service.
Keep victims informed about the progress of their cases, providing regular updates and ensuring they have a dedicated point of contact within the force.
Work with partner agencies to provide victims with holistic support, including mental health services and victim support programs, ensuring they receive the care needed to recover and rebuild their lives.

Want to help us achieve our vision and goals? Why not check out our Vacancies page and see what jobs are open, because only with the support and trust of and from the public and the Force, can we truly Deliver Quality Policing.

Previous Priorities

The Chief Constable originally set two versions of the Delivering Quality Policing (DPQ) vision, both being revised and replaced by the above, incorporating some goals from both previous visions however. You can see the previous DPQ priorities here.

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Delivering Quality Policing 2023 - 2024

The 2023 - 2024 vision was introduced by Chief Constable OfficerEethCoth121 on the 11th November 2023 as the new vision for Hampshire Constabulary to aim to achieve by working towards our six main goals of:

Recruiting and training 30 more police officers and staff by 2025, ensuring they are all trained to the highest standards as possible in laws and legislation, preventing, responding to and handling incidents, making my officers, staff and volunteers not only create communities that are safe, but that feel safe, as well as ensuring our officers and staff know how to use our different technology systems, through the best possible and most realistic rigorous training recruitment process;
Providing a visible policing presence within our local communities through police surgeries, open days, engagement sessions and putting neighbourhood teams at the heart of each community;
Restoring and retaining the public's faith and trust in the police, by being more open and transparent with the work that we do, overhauling local policing which has already been successfully implemented by the introduction of Local Policing Areas, but there is much more work to do as we move through the year;
Improving the way our investigations are carried out by recruiting not just police constables but also detective constables and aligning them within our local policing teams, creating a more realistic and efficient process of reactive and proactive policing, and therefore, building a better relationship with the public;
Increasing the number of and increasing specialist teams such as our newly formed Area Crime and Neighbourhood Enforcement Teams as well as our Roads Policing and Armed Response Units, creating a hostile environment for criminals;
Building a better collaboration with our partners from the National Crime Agency to tackle organised crime and the Security Service to counter terrorism threats, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue, South Central Ambulance and His Majesty's Coastguard services to keep the public safe and local government and businesses to reinforce our commitment in preserving public service.

What this means is, what and how we do things from now on will be at the highest standards that the public can expect of us, whether that be through our rigorous training process, the delivery of service from our operational and non-operational policing teams, as well as the decisions we make.

Whilst also always putting the decision-making process in the heart of the community we serve, we also want our officers and staff to feel properly supported and therefore we make it a top priority to offer them with as much support and compassion towards them as possible through regular meetings with line managers, continued professional development and direct access to well-being services by the Department for Welfare & Awareness.

Additionally, we will be acting more on information and intelligence given to us by the community but also from crime statistics which will be analysed monthly by our Local Commanders and other senior officers, to better improve our policing services.

Furthermore to meeting our goals, we will be bettering our commitment to maintaining professional standards within the Force, ensuring the highest standards are upheld throughout all the entire Constabulary as well as investigating all complaints in a timely manner and within an individually established timeframe.

To sum it up, from now on, everyone - the public, those working for us and everyone else, can expect the most quality service from Hampshire Constabulary.

Want to help us achieve our vision and goals? Why not check out our Careers page and see what jobs are open, because only with the support and trust of and from the public and the Force, can we truly Deliver Quality Policing.

Delivering Quality Policing

Previous Priorities

Delivering Quality Policing 2024 - 2025

Originally, the Delivering Quality Policing mission was introduced by Chief Constable OfficerEethCoth121 on the 11th November 2023 as the new vision for Hampshire Constabulary to aim to achieve by working towards our six main goals which can be found here. As of the 17th December 2024, the Chief Constable announced a new revised vision that has adapted our previous goals to make the new ones more efficient in achieving, merging the six goals into three policing priorities with individual targets for each of the goals.

The decision to make changes to these goals was on the basis that our previous six ones were not completely within our power to achieve and only some have been successful. This updated vision was aimed to be more realistic and achieveable with the resources that we have. We aimed to achieve the following goals for the remainder of 2024 until January 2026. However after a further thorough review, the Chief Constable overhauled the priorities again to be more accomondated for the context that we are in, to be achived by the end of 2025 and replace both of the previous goals. We are committed to ensuring these priorities will not be changed again as there are now adapated and realistic goals and objectives to be achieved under each priority, including some from the preivous two visions.

The previous priorities can be found below:

The Constabulary previously aimed to:

1. Improving Police Visibility

Recruit and train 15 police officers by 2026
Introduce new and increase the number of current specialist teams
Ensure police stations remain open, with there being front counter services in at least two stations
Ensure Local Policing Teams are addressing local concerns
Establish a community engagement event each month

2. Disrupting Crime

Create a Force-wide policing operation to tackle violent crime, supported by the Violent Crime Task Force
Work with our partners in the Fire and Ambulance Services, National Crime Agency and local authorities to tackle serious and organised crime.

3. Putting Victims First

Recruit Detectives
Introduce crime reference numbers, in partnership with the Department for Integrated Call Centres
Ensure investigations for all crimes are conducted efficiently

Delivering Quality Policing 2023 - 2024

Recruiting and training 30 more police officers and staff by 2025, ensuring they are all trained to the highest standards as possible in laws and legislation, preventing, responding to and handling incidents, making my officers, staff and volunteers not only create communities that are safe, but that feel safe, as well as ensuring our officers and staff know how to use our different technology systems, through the best possible and most realistic rigorous training recruitment process;
Providing a visible policing presence within our local communities through police surgeries, open days, engagement sessions and putting neighbourhood teams at the heart of each community;
Restoring and retaining the public's faith and trust in the police, by being more open and transparent with the work that we do, overhauling local policing which has already been successfully implemented by the introduction of Local Policing Areas, but there is much more work to do as we move through the year;
Improving the way our investigations are carried out by recruiting not just police constables but also detective constables and aligning them within our local policing teams, creating a more realistic and efficient process of reactive and proactive policing, and therefore, building a better relationship with the public;
Increasing the number of and increasing specialist teams such as our newly formed Area Crime and Neighbourhood Enforcement Teams as well as our Roads Policing and Armed Response Units, creating a hostile environment for criminals;
Building a better collaboration with our partners from the National Crime Agency to tackle organised crime and the Security Service to counter terrorism threats, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue, South Central Ambulance and His Majesty's Coastguard services to keep the public safe and local government and businesses to reinforce our commitment in preserving public service.

To sum it up, from now on, everyone - the public, those working for us and everyone else, can expect the most quality service from Hampshire Constabulary.

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