Best value review of retention

Report: 5
Date: 08 November 2002
By: Commissioner

Summary

This report details the proposed scope, plan and organisation of the Best Value Review of Retention (BVRR).

A. Recommendations

1. The Committee is asked to approve the Project Initiation Document (PID) for the BVRR attached at Appendix 1.

B. Supporting information

1. On 25 July 2002 the Human Resources Committee decided that the planned best value review of managing people should focus on improving retention. This decision was based on the need to minimise the number of police and civil staff leaving the MPS prematurely and so promoting the MPS as an exemplary employer. Members also confirmed Jennette Arnold as the lead member for the review and Rachel Whittaker as the lead member on the independent challenge panel.

2. HR Committee subsequently agreed that a project initiation document (PID) setting out the overall arrangements and plan for the review should be submitted to the Co-ordination and Policing Committee for approval (following agreement by the MPS project board for the review chaired by Martin Tiplady). This decision was based on a desire to gain member approval as soon as possible rather than wait for HR Committee in December.

3. The scope of the review has been determined by liaising with the MPA, speaking with senior MPS managers and analysing data that has been produced as to why police and civil staff leave the MPS.

4. The objectives of this review are to produce a set of recommendations that improves the MPS’s ability to retain police and civil staff, thereby reducing the costs involved in staff wastage.

C. Equality and diversity implications

5. Ensuring that the MPS is better able to retain police and civil staff from visible ethnic minority (VEM) and under-represented groups will ensure that it meets the need of being totally representative of the community that it serves.

6. The critical theme of diversity will be a central strand that runs through every phase of the BVRR. It is envisaged that the recommendations of the review will not only lead to improved retention amongst under-represented groups but will also build confidence in communities at the MPS’s ability to retain police and civil staff from these important sections of the workforce.

D. Financial implications

7. Work to date has cost £76,000 and it is estimated that it will cost £220,000 to complete the review.

E. Background papers

None

F. Contact details

Report author: Chief Inspector Andrew Tarrant, MPS.

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