Surrey Police Authority has a statutory responsibility to consult with the public of Surrey in order to determine the annual local policing priorities.
This section provides information on how members of the local community are able to get involved in the business of Surrey Police Authority (SPA) and can contribute to the policing priorities for the local area. We have also detailed the results of our most recent consultation events.
Local Engagement Strategy
Every Authority has statutory obligations which it must fulfil: including consultation with local people on policing priorities, on the budget, and on their confidence in local policing; participation in Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships (CDRPs); and informing the public about how decisions are made and how they can make a complaint. To discharge their responsibilities properly, Members must also exercise independent oversight of Surrey Police and ensure that the Force is accurately and adequately representing the concerns of local people.
This revised Consultation, Community Engagement and Communications Strategy sets out Surrey Police Authority’s intentions for discharging its responsibilities in this key area
CONSULTATION 2007
Surrey Police Authority has a statutory responsibility to consult with the public of Surrey in order to determine the annual local policing priorities.
During October to December 2007, Surrey Police Authority conducted a comprehensive consultation programme comprising a newspaper, web survey and postal questionnaire to stakeholders. A community engagement Expo campaign branded 'You Pay - You Say' toured the county visiting Woking, Redhill, Godalming and Walton-on-Thames. Visitors were each invited to spend £170 on their choice of five policing priorities.
An inaugural Surrey Police Authority Youth Conference took place at the Cobham Hilton in December where the young delegates also took part in a keypad consultation activity.
In total 1512 people took part in the Local Policing Plan consultation programme, 1540 in the interactive Expo campaign and 99 young, aged between 11-20, in the Youth Conference keypad consultation.
The results of each methodology are documented in the following reports. Photographs from the Expos and Youth Conference can be found in the picture gallery.
Consultation Results You Pay You Say Expo Results Youth Conference 2007 Consultation
SPA 'YOU PAY, YOU SAY' EXPO EVENTS 2007
The Surrey Police Authority held four You Pay - You Say Expos in Surrey during October and November visiting Woking, Redhill, Godalming and Walton on Thames. We spoke to over 1540 people throughout these expos.
Our campaigns are always interactive and this year we asked you to 'buy' your choice of five priorities with £170 Surrey Policing Pounds - the average amount of council tax charged for policing in a band D house in Surrey. The five priorities were under the headings:
Neighbourhood Policing
Reducing and Investigating Crime
Terrorism and Emergency Planning
Responding to calls for Assistance
Roads Policing
We also we invited our visitors to write any comments on our public talking board.
During each of our Expos this year, we also ran a competition to win a Robosapien Robot, kindly sponsored by Dial Media. Participants had to enter a name for the cartoon wobbly policemen. The winners, who were drawn out of the competition box at random, have all been contacted and their photographs will be posted on this site once all the presentations have taken place.
For the first time we invited some of our partners to join us in exhibiting at the Expos and we are grateful to Surrey Police, Surrey Safety Camera Partnership, Victim Support, Surrey Criminal Justice Board, Crimestoppers and Reigate & Banstead and Elmbridge CDRPs for their support with our campaign.
The results are still be counted and analysed and once this has been completed they will be published on the website. The results help us to create our Annual Local Policing Plan which is published on 1 April every year, and this exercise is part of a wider consultation programme we have just finished which saw surveys published in the local newspaper and on our website. We also sent a copy out to our stakeholders.
All our consultation activities are organised in conjunction with Surrey Police and the results of these questionnaires will be posted on our website in February 2008 after they have been presented to the public Police Authority meeting.
