Mission, vision and values

Report: 4
Date: 20 July 2000
By: Commissioner

Summary

The Committee is invited to consider how the Authority might respond to MPS proposed mission, vision and values.

A. Supporting information

Background

1. At the Finance Planning and Best Value Committee Workshop on 10 July the Deputy Commissioner explained that the MPS would welcome an early view from the Authority on mission, vision and values. These form the basis of the MPS corporate planning framework but were produced in the expectation that the Authority would wish to review them.

2. Members asked for a paper explaining how mission, vision and values were developed to set the outcome in context. Attached at Appendix A is a copy of the mission, vision, values and critical success factors (CSF’s).

Why were mission, vision and values developed

3. The key drivers for developing mission and vision were:

• a wish to respond to the new Home Office Overarching Aims and Objectives for the police;
• the need for a clear corporate framework for planning and performance monitoring;
• the need to update the existing corporate strategy - the London Beat;
• the corporate Business Excellence Model (BEM) results expressing a need for a clear vision; and
• the existing Statement of Common Purpose and Values needed updating.

4. Mission is what the MPS does, what its core purpose is. Vision is concerned with where the MPS should be within a longer time frame. It clearly describes an ‘ideal’. Values underpin and run through everything the MPS does. Critical success factors describe everything the MPS needs to do to achieve success.

How the mission vision and values were developed

5. The MPS recognised the importance of involving as many stakeholders as possible in the development of mission, vision and values. Key inputs from February 1999 were:

• Management Board set our their initial view of mission vision and values based on an analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
• for the first time in the MPS, senior police and civil staff and OCU commanders were invited to review the analysis and comment on the initial drafts
• the MPC, through the Efficiency and Best Value Sub-Committee and seminars with the full committee, reviewed the methodology and draft products at various stages
• once the Committee were content, the Home Secretary was consulted on the outcome
• the Critical Success Factors (CSFs) were developed through internal workshops with police and civil staff at all levels, reviewed by Management Board and then by the MPC
• public consultation was carried out by independent researchers from October to November, including telephone and ‘on the street’ interviews and focus groups. Each focus group was drawn from a cross section of the Capital’s ethnic communities and socio-economic groupings. Focus groups were also held with MPS personnel.

6. Examples of other documents and processes involved are:

• Corporate Business Excellence Model
• Borough Crime Reduction Strategies
• Current MPS Strategies and activities
• Ministerial Priorities
• Public Attitude Survey results

B. Recommendations

1. That the Committee note the development process; and
2. That members consider how they wish to recommend adoption of the MPS mission, vision and values to the full Authority.

C. Financial implications

There are no direct financial implications.

D. Review arrangements

The Authority will be involved in the future planning process and any reviews arising from it.

E. Background papers

The following is a statutory list of background papers (under the Local Government Act 1972 S.100 D) which disclose facts or matters on which the report is based and which have been relied on to a material extent in preparing this report. They are available on request to either the contact officer listed below or to the Clerk to the Police Authority at the address indicated on the agenda.

• MPS Policing and Performance Plan 2000/01

F. Contact details

The author of this report is Barbara Riddell, Director of Corporate Development, MPS.

For information contact:

MPA general: 020 7202 0202
Media enquiries: 020 7202 0217/18

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