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Leicestershire Police
Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner
People Development Policy

Policy Owner: HR Director

Department Responsible: Human Resources Department

Chief Officer Approval: Human Resources Director

Risk Value: Low

EIA Level: Medium

Date of Next Review: April 2012

This Policy has been produced in conjunction with the Leicestershire

Police Legislative Compliance Pack

Review log
Date Minor / Major Section Author
/ No change
Jan 2010 Live John Bill
April 2011 Minor Scope John Bill

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Statement
Leicestershire Police is made up of the ‘Office of the Police and Crime
Commissioner’ and the ‘Office of the Chief Constable’. This policy covers the
work of Leicestershire Police.

Within the Policy (and any procedures that support the delivery of the aims of
the Policy), where the term ‘Police Staff’ is used this is taken as meaning
employees of both offices.

Leicestershire Police is fully committed to the professionalisation of the

Service, through the structured development of its officers and staff. This
policy will ensure that a framework exists to enable the Force to appropriately
structure and skill its workforce to deliver a second to none service to the
communities of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Aims
The key aims are:
• to develop the talent of all employees in a fair, consistent and
transparent manner to meet the needs of the organisation, the
aspirations of the individual and to maximise the potential of all our
people
• to provide an infrastructure that ensures national standards of
competence and accreditation are utilised in individual and professional
development activities, where at all possible, in line with Skills for
Justice’s guidance and standards1.

Scope
The policy:
• applies to all police officers, police staff and volunteers
• covers all aspects of corporately sanctioned individual, professional
and career development
• will deliver a structured, managed life-long learning culture.

It also ensures that processes involved in such development will be quality

assured and evaluated, and where appropriate, will meet external quality
standards, e.g. OCR 2, QCA 3, NPIA Quality Assurance Scheme.

Legal Basis

1 The Sector Skills Council for the criminal justice sector

2 Awarding body
3 Qualification and Curriculum Agency

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This policy exists to ensure equality, fairness, consistency and transparency

in access to, implementation and assessment of and decisions surrounding all
development activities, irrespective of individual differences.

Monitoring
It will be the responsibility of Strategic Equality and Confidence Board (SECB)
to regularly review this policy and the constituent procedures for equality of
access, relevance and application against legal and quality assurance
standards. Appropriate KPIs 4 will be reported upon, quarterly.

The policy incorporates a number of procedures which are owned by different

sections within the HR department; to this end the policy owner is responsible
for commissioning reviews of each constituent procedure.

4 Key Performance Indicators

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