The BTPA is seeking feedback on its draft Strategy for policing the railways until 2021.
Our ongoing review of the operating environment, and feedback received from our stakeholders, suggested our current strategy needed to be revisited before its planned end date. As such, we are now consulting on the proposed strategy for the British Transport Police (BTP) for 2018-21.
In our 2013-19 Strategy we set out ambitious objectives for the BTP to deliver a high-quality , specialist policing service for the railways. While our three ‘hard measure’ targets have not been fully met, we believe we have achieved our overarching aim and remain committed to consolidating BTP’s performance in these areas over the life of the new strategy.
However, the Force and our industry partners have made compelling representations about the need to consider an adjustment to a strategy which focused the BTP’s activities on tackling volume crime towards one which was more focused on addressing crimes and incidents which cause greatest threat and risk to people travelling and working on the railway network. As such, we secured support from our partners to conclude our strategy a year early and to move away from numeric success measures during our transitional year, 2017/18.
The feedback received during this consultation stage will be reviewed by the Authority’s Strategy and Planning Committee and used to inform its final recommendations to the full Police Authority.
We invite your views on;
- our planning assumptions
- areas for BTP to focus on over the next three years.
The draft proposals on our Strategy are set out in our supporting document, which includes a number of consultation questions to highlight the key areas in which we are seeking feedback. The closing date for written comments on the Strategic Plan is Friday 2nd March and guidance on how to respond is included in the attached pack.
The consultation on our supporting policing plans for 2018/19 is also live and you can submit your comments using the Policing Plan survey. The closing date for responses on the draft Policing Plan is Monday 26th February.